It’s a rare and satisfying experience when you can simply switch two paragraphs and discover new meaning, new transitions, and a stronger piece of work altogether.
That’s when the piece writes itself. And makes me think I’ve perhaps got a muse.
{ 2003 05 10 }
kalthar | 10-May-03 at 8:35 pm | Permalink
Now, its safe to say we don’t know each other. However I am sitting at a computer at my work and I say to myself, “Self, you are pissed at your boss, why not go and bitch on live journal”. So I did. And when I start to type the URL in, it pops up that its been here before and under a user’s name. Well if you are as witty as your entries would indicate (along with excellent taste in music, Yoko Kanno being a Goddess and all) that person’s handle was you. Now I wouldn’t think to much of it, except that you apparently live in Newberg OR. Which is wear I used to live until this year. Which has placed me in Tacoma where I am sitting in PLU’s Campus safety. So what I really want to know is, how did you get to this computer?!!?! Its a puzzle I can’t solve and my head is going nutty about it. Don’t worry, I am logging you out of this computer so people won’t happen upon you and do interesting things. But I am just rather confused now.
Have a nice day!
oh yeah, an anime you might want to check out if you havn’t before is “Ragarok” -Very cool-
starladear6 | 11-May-03 at 3:09 am | Permalink
are you saying that your computer was logged into my account when you went to livejournal.com? It said “Hello, starladear6″ at the top of the screen??
That’s bloody amazing and mind-boggling if that’s what you mean. I have no idea how that could have happened. I’ve only driven through Tacoma a few times, and never stopped. I don’t know anyone from Tacoma either…
That’s an amazing coincidence that you are from Newberg though…
here’s to changing my password. Please tell me anything else you can. I want to open a support request and make sure things like this never happen again.
Also, do you know anyone else from Newberg? maybe it was someone who knows me here, and is up there and happened to use your computer?
and thanks for “logging me out” if that’s what really happened.
kalthar | 11-May-03 at 4:08 am | Permalink
Think nothing of it. And I only know a handful of people who are familar with Newberg, and they wouldn’t have access to the computer I was on. So I guess that just makes my mystery truly … well mysterious.
Yes it was logged into you, I could have posted as you if I wanted and everything, very bizarre I must say. One can only assume you have fans without knowing it… or something like that.
starladear6 | 11-May-03 at 1:11 pm | Permalink
Think nothing of it. uh uh. sorry… no can do. If someone successfully hacked into my account from your computer, I’d like to take it very seriously.
Can you tell me anything about anyone who has ever used your computer? Do any of them have livejournal accounts? Perhaps they are not from newberg, but have taken an interest in my journal for some reason?
Also, I can’t help but ask this… and I’m hoping this is the case… With all-due respect, is this a prank? Maybe you found my journal, and decided it would be funny to tell me this “witty” story about your computer being logged into my account?
I promise I won’t be angry if this is the case. I might even laugh. Clever way to meet a girl, eh? (or something) But for my own sanity and sense of security, I’d really like to know.
kalthar | 12-May-03 at 1:50 am | Permalink
No no, the think nothing of it was my response for you thanking me to logging you out of the computer. And see, the trick is, it wasn’t my personal comp that I was logged on to. It was the comp that was at my work (which is a security guard) that is being used 24/7 (literaly) by about 40 different people during the week.
No I promise this isn’t a prank, although you have a valid point in thinking its a clever way to meet a girl, I might have to try it….. or not.
Sadly I do not have the time for such meaningless pranks with finals approaching currently. If this were some other time perhaps, it was just a concern I had one night at work.
starladear6 | 12-May-03 at 8:44 am | Permalink
May I ask what kind of place you work at? I’m running with the idea that perhaps someone there guessed my password, and maybe knowing what kind of place you work at could help me to guess which friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend (or whatever) might have tried.
I wanted to open a support request with livejournal.com, but I think I’ll wait a little bit before I do that. If this was some kind of bizzare database/login glitch, I’m sure they’d want to know about it. But it really is more likely that this was a human-motivated incident… not machine-error.
The thing that bothers me most is that if my journal had been compromised, the person did absolutely nothing (no graffiti, no user-info changes, no strange entries or posts… odd.) If I was going to break into someone’s journal or website, I’d at least do something to prove I was there.
kalthar | 12-May-03 at 5:41 pm | Permalink
I am a security guard at PLU in tacoma. Well student/security guard. I really have no clue how it could have happened. Its the dispatchers computer that I was on, and just got bored as a person typically does on dispatch. So if they were on that computer, they would have had to be a student at PLU and working for “campus saftey” which is the name ofthe security force. Its a whole politcal correctness bull.
kalthar | 12-May-03 at 6:19 pm | Permalink
I am a security guard at PLU in tacoma. Well student/security guard. I really have no clue how it could have happened. Its the dispatchers computer that I was on, and just got bored as a person typically does on dispatch. So if they were on that computer, they would have had to be a student at PLU and working for “campus saftey” which is the name ofthe security force. Its a whole politcal correctness bull.