{"id":1509,"date":"2005-09-10T22:01:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/a> told me that I should upgrade to wordpress this weekend. But I don\\’t think I have the heart to do so. I still like the way b2 looks despite the fact that I know I can skin wordpress and all that good stuff. I am just lazy.<\/p>\n

Every so often, I come across something here and I think wow, that\\’s soooo Pittsburgh<\/i>. The people here are strangely different from the Bay Area. Namely, they are \\”overly nice<\/a>\\”.<\/p>\n

So the other day, I get an e-mail from one of the many HCI department secretaries. She wrote, \\”Jennifer, you have a very important-looking fax waiting for you in the mail room.\\” I finish up my Internet stuff and rush down to the mail room, wondering what it could be. I have never received a fax, let alone a real important-looking letter. I see a fax addressed from an unfamiliar firm called Wienand & Bagin, Attourneys At Law. The fax reads:<\/p>\n

PLEASE DELIVER IMMEDIATELY<\/p>\n

Dear Ms. Ng:<\/p>\n

this morning, while walking our dog, my wife found a check made payable to you in the amount of $950 which appears to be a rental payment or a security deposit or both. Please contact me, so that I can arrange to return it to you.<\/p>\n

[signed]<\/i><\/p>\n

When I first read it, I thought AFRICAN MONEY SCAM<\/i>. So I was about to recycle the paper in disappointment. Then I looked at the amount of money again. Suddenly I remembered, it was the check that my new housemate had given me. I had given it back to her because she wasn\\’t supposed to write it to me. So I fish out my cellphone. Oddly enough there was a voicemail there, because I had forgotten to turn on my ringer. I listened to the voicemail which was a male voice telling me the exact same content as in the fax. Then suddenly I see an e-mail from the same person with the same content.<\/p>\n

I call the number listed in the fax and asked for Mr. Bagin. The secretary seems reluctant to transfer me (I don\\’t sound like a client?!) but eventually I reach him. I tell him about my information and it turns out that my housemate accidentally dropped the check outside our house. D\\’oh. I give Mr. Bagin my information and thank him tremendously. I also ask him how he found all my information. He said something along the lines of \\”you seem like a very important person\\”.<\/p>\n

His wife eventually drops off the check later. But how often am I impressed by good stalking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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