I am back from talking to the roofers and showing them the damage from the storm. Conversation was something like:

Me: This needs to be fixed.

Them: It's fine.

Me: This needs to be fixed.

Them: Fixing it will make a big mess.

(Lather, rinse, repeat)

Me: Are you willing to put that in writing and indemnify me and all future owners of this property for all current and subsequent repairs?

Them: Let me call the boss.

Big Boss shows up in person: Okay, we'll have it all fixed by the time you get home tonight.

Hah! Go Sparky1!

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I just e-mailed that to my entire department.

my parents are getting painting quotes today. YAY!

I got my first water bill....over $100.00....boo!

Creepy Ad Watch

Very strange. An anti-terrorism ad in Saudi Arabia that compares terrorists to clowns. Evil clowns.

I think I need to pay attention more: I was just reading an email from my sister in gmail (which she does not use) and in the sidebar was a link to the googlemap with her address listed.

Her address certainly wasn't in that email exchange, and when I search my gmail it isn't in anything I've saved.

Now I have to figure out where they're mining that information from.

Sparky, could you have her address saved in your Contacts list? Either way it'd make me worried.

Sparky, if I understand how that data mining works, it may just be that your sister has her address on her Gmail profile somewhere, and the data miner pulled it from there.

We're really at the point where if there's any information you only want to share with selected people, stay off the internet.

And if there's any of that information you've put on the internet over the years, you're too late. You could go hunt all of it down and delete it where you can find and get to it, but even that wouldn't do you any good because it's already spread beyond where you can get to it.

As much as I dislike Facebook's privacy policy, they may be one of the few companies being realistic about it (though they need better PR about it).

You CAN'T protect your information online. You. Can't. The best approach is to stop worrying about it.

your sister has her address on her Gmail profile

She doesn't use gmail, so it's not that. I have no addresses in my gmail contacts.

The best approach is to stop worrying about it.

It's not worry, it's my librarian brain wanting to know what the search algorithm is doing.

it's my librarian brain wanting to know what the search algorithm is doing.

Liar.

It's you're evil overlord brain wanting to know how to twist this technology to your own nefarious ends.