I'm only getting 5 or so but I didn't sign up for these.
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sj - Jan 03, 2019 9:52:29 am PST #25235 of 25496
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
DXMachina - Jan 03, 2019 10:26:43 am PST #25236 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Weird day all around. No GMail spam (yet...), but I got a voice mail on my cell in Chinese, allegedly from Warwick, RI.
Dana - Jan 03, 2019 10:27:43 am PST #25237 of 25496
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The Chinese voicemail spam has been going for months, at least on my number. They may have focused on numbers associated with high Chinese populations.
Tom Scola - Jan 03, 2019 10:37:09 am PST #25238 of 25496
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I just got spear-phished on the phone for my credit card details. Successfully. The fuckers got my PIN form me. I feel so foolish. I cancelled my card as soon as I came to my senses. So far, it looks like there were no fraudulent charges.
Consuela - Jan 03, 2019 10:39:09 am PST #25239 of 25496
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Good catch, Tom! At least you recognized it for what it was, even if after the fact. Don't beat yourself up too much, these folks are professionals.
Me, I just spent half an hour on the phone with Venmo (pretty hard when you've lost your voice), and discovered that I had 2 accounts, somehow. Happily, that has now been resolved.
Maria - Jan 03, 2019 10:43:37 am PST #25240 of 25496
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I had to call ABT and Shutterstock to cancel accounts I didn't create and never wanted. My spam folder count was 570-some this morning. After this nonsense it's up to 2200+.
Are there planets in retrograde or something?
DX, I've been getting them for months, with a DC area code. I'd love to know what they're saying.
I'm sorry, Tom. You caught it quickly, and that's good.
Consuela, yuck for voice-loss, but hooray for a quick fix on the Venmo issues.
Jesse - Jan 09, 2019 10:59:24 am PST #25241 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wonder if any of you can help me talk to my operations people, because I'm afraid I'm not using the right words to describe what I want. My dream is to have a database (?) that is full of paragraphs of information, each of which is tagged (?) in various ways. Then someone can choose different tags and a word document will be automagically created with the relevant paragraphs.
Does that sound like a thing that could exist?
flea - Jan 09, 2019 11:30:26 am PST #25242 of 25496
information libertarian
I am wondering if words like "content modules" might be useful. You basically want to build a text document using different chunks of text (paragraphs) selected from a pool, right?
I've done this for web pages for library resources - you have a box that explains how to use the VPN, a box that gives the subject librarian's profile, a box that has library hours, and then blank boxes you can customize for whatever you need. The boxes were called "content modules" in the setup.
Dana - Jan 09, 2019 11:32:26 am PST #25243 of 25496
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Sounds like DITA.
Jesse - Jan 09, 2019 11:42:23 am PST #25244 of 25496
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.