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Educating the young
So I'm standing outside the Granville Red Line stop finishing a cigarette, not unlike a rat self-destructively chewing its tail before jumping onto the exercise wheel that will deposit him, hours later, exhausted and dispirited and precisely where he began, when I hear the "Hey!"
I turn to face a fella in his early 20s, smiling but obviously with ulterior motives.
"Hey, Pops, you got a cigarette to spare?"
Pops?
Pops??
I took a last drag on my half-smoked butt and tossed it into the street. Exhaling a huge cloud of blue, nicotine-laden smoke directly into his face, I said, simply,
"No, Skippy, I don't."
Go gnaw on your own metaphorical tail, loser. And have some respect for your elders.
Pops.
Sheesh.
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So there.
The kgb@kgb.com e-mail address is now something other than kgb@kgb.com saga.
kgbreport.com used to be kgb.com until December, 2007 when the domain name broker
Trout Zimmer made an offer I couldn't refuse.
Giving up kgb.com and adopting kgbreport.com created a significant problem, however.
I had acquired the kgb.com domain name in 1993,
and had since that time used kgb@kgb.com as my sole e-mail address. How to let people know
that kgb@kgb.com was no longer kgb@kgb.com but
rather kgbarkes@gmail.com which is longer than kgb@kgb.com and more letters to
type than kgb@kgb.com and somehow less aesthetically
pleasing than kgb@kgb.com but actually just as functional as kgb@kgb.com? I sent e-mails from the kgb@kgb.com address to just about
everybody I knew who had used kgb@kgb.com in the past decade and a half but noticed that some people just didn't seem to get the word
about the kgb@kgb.com change. So it occurred to me that if I were generate some literate, valid text in which kgb@kgb.com was repeated
numerous times and posted it on a bunch of different pages- say, a blog indexed by Google- that someone looking for kgb@kgb.com would
notice this paragraph repeated in hundreds of locations, would read it, and figure out that kgb@kgb.com no longer is the kgb@kgb.com
they thought it was. That's the theory, anyway. kgb@kgb.com. Ok, I'm done. Move along. Nothing to see here...