The darnedest thing...

[kickaha]

I have a trick I use when composing an email draft that I don't want to accidentally send, I type the name 'noone' in the To field. Why? Because eons ago I worked with an emailer that wouldn't let you leave that field blank before composing the mail, and I got into the habit.

It's nice, because while you could type in the name of the person you want to send it to, appended with 'notyet' or something, autocompletion of names frequently makes that more troublesome than not. Silly, but true.

Anyway, today at work I did that, and the LDAP autosearch popped up someone with that last name, filled out the address completely for someone in the UK. Poop. I guess I have to hope nobody has the last name 'nobody'.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

'No Body Messages' in *Brazil*!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!


BASTARDS!




grr.

Comments

[margarita-5.livejournal.com]

you crazy kids and your rock-n-roll...

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I bet there isn't a "bastards" in the directory.

Waaaaay back when, the company my dad worked for allowed users to determine their own usernames, except for the programmers. The programmers, they gave obscene usernames to, so that none of the regular users could have them.

Dad, whose initials are DAM, had a username of "damn".

I can _just_ see that policy being put in place today, twenty-five years later.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

So wait... instead of banning said obscene usernames, they simply *reserved* them??

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


"How do I get ahold of you?"

"assmunch@foo.com"

"Er... what? Okay, um, do you have an alternate address?"

"Sure, use titfucker@foo.com"

"..."

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Ayup. It made some sort of sense when I was twelve.

I wonder if my email admin would let me set up "titfucker(at)lonelymountain.net"?

Do we even want to think about the user icon?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

I think I have one around here somewhere that would be appropriate...

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Be more fun to make an original one...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

"You mean I gotta take work *HOME*? Maaaaaaaaan...."

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

It's not like I can get a shot like that at the office. I work for the gummint, ya know, and they've got all sorts of unreasonable rules for that sort of thing.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I wonder if my email admin would let me set up "titfucker(at)lonelymountain.net"?

Seems a little unlikely to me, dear.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

This is why I run my own server. :D I can make whatever bloody aliases I want.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

This is why I outsource administration of my servers--she keeps me from doing too many stupid things.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Well, I did just try it to see if it would work, but then I deleted it.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

*Excellent* plan.

When in doubt, delegate. :D

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

What if I were _reallllllly_ nice to her?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Get a room, you two!

Either that, or provide a web feed. House rules.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Just for that, you're getting a copy of the picture.

Be happy you were left off the email thread where we were discussing the logistics and lighting necessary to acquire said picture...

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Heh. Macs. ;)

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeah, pop that knee back into place there, buddy... Lotus Notes, Windows, and IBM.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

You lie! *sob*

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

There, there, you'll come to the Light Side one day... ;)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

No way, dude, the Dark Side has better clothes. And cookies!

[margarita-5.livejournal.com]

hey, no one mentioned the cookies before...

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

He's lying. There are no cookies.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Hell, the Dark side has _everything_ the Light Side has, because we steal it!

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Then how come it always comes out so crappy when you guys get it?