I sent an email to my wife asking if she wanted to have pizza tonight. Lo and behold, there was a Gmail ad for Dominos by the time I hit send. From here on out, I’m using the code “murder the butler” in place of “buy pizza.” I don’t want Google knowing that I’m carbo-loading. I have shame. Find me an ad for that, bitches.
In related news:
“watch TV” now equals “watch gay porn”
“have a beer” now equals “fire up the crack pipe”
“masturbate” now equals “file a fraudulent insurance claim”
You think you know me, Google? We’ll see.
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Too funny ! I posted a story about the U.S. drug war and how it was killing Cahuita, a small Caribbean town that used to live off tourism. I went out for a couple of hours, and when I got home to the ‘puter, I had three notices of background checks run on me. The Central American DEA office is here, in San Jose. Guess they monitor the internet. Waiting for the knock on the door. Something about a right to privacy in a piece of paper under glass in Wash D.C. didn’t anticipate the instant selling and trading of cyber info.
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Yeah concern for government monitoring seems to be at least on people’s radar screens–Orwell and all, but this commercial spy juggernaut is getting huge–I guess because people figure it saves them a few bucks. I must admit, I do like my “free” Gmail. Most of the time I’m completely oblivious to computer ads (I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on one), this was just so blatant.
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Don’t mean to belabor a point, but I did an article on Reuben Sturman, the guy from Cleveland who invented the whole modern porn industry. I was getting porn ads for over a year…about fifteen to twenty per day. I now have a junk e-mail I use for stuff like that, and one more secrative.
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Lol. Oh yes google knows us so well (not) it is a tad creepy with this targeted ads though.
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I thought so. It’s like someone sticking their head through your window while you hare having a private phone conversation and saying, “I couldn’t help but overhear, you should try…”
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