I reset the passwords of everything I can access that's not a financial/personal data thing.

Yep. And because I'm a dick with issues about data privacy, I've actually thought through my rules. Edu or financial records? Lisa's account simply never gets activated and rots forever. Free graduation gift spam she got signed up for by the yearbook photographer? Password reset. Game site? Profile edits.

Dang y'all, I had no idea I was living in some weird bubble where no one uses my email addy as a burner. Except the one time someone tried to set up a tindr account with my gmail address, but I just notified them it wasn't me.

I've never had that issue with email, but there's a real estate broker whose phone number is one digit off from mine, and several of his online listings have my phone number listed. I keep getting calls for him, and it's getting really annoying.

I still have an account related to Perkins, which now gets me huge amounts of email for a born again helicopter mom in Texas who sells jewelry online that most of her customers don't like once they get it.

That's incredible.

I guess Jimmie H just uses my address when he doesn't want to give his real one, because I've never gotten a password change request.

Good luck, ita!

Does everyone know there's a solar eclipse starting in about 15 minutes? Just checking.

(Also, I know you're not supposed to look directly at a solar eclipse, but is that just because you're not supposed to look directly at the sun whether it's eclipsed or not? Or is it extra-worse if you look at the eclipsed sun? I need to know. For a friend.)

Just the sun thing. (Plus the fact that some people will look extra hard at an eclipse, either because it's extra interesting or because they maybe think it's dimmer so okay?? But those are the kind of people who use someone else's email address...)

I've got the sun shining sideways in through the office windows. I'm watching the light on the pillars to see if it changes.

Timelies all!

Another weekend, another convention. This one is OVFF, in Columbus.

Did anyone else have a meeting today in which pubic hair was a topic of discussion?

Why do people in offices bring in those Glade Air Freshener things

That's an easy one to take to HR. They can send out a broad "don't to that" message and no one gets singled out as long as the warning is heeded.

The dots in gmail addresses don't mean anything.

True, but Google claims it's not possible for multiple people to sign up for the same address. I think they lie. I know all about my doppelganger's shoe purchases, Mini Cooper lease, sorority alumni activities and personal family issues. I even got a "sorry about my grades, Mom" email. I keep unsubscribing from lists and blocking addresses.

Sometimes I am very glad that I have a nearly unique and unspellable first and last name combination.