This has been bothering me for quite some time:
I have taken the time and effort to build quite a large
collection of quotes that I like and love, and most of the
short ones have by now found their way into my cookie file,
and are thus randomly appended under my mail.
Randomly? Really? All too often I wonder. All too often I
giggle because the - randomly appended - sig matches the
subject matter all too closely, sometimes even too the point
that I'd rather manually select another sig in order to
escape possible accusations that I was adding insult to
injury / was giving a bland summary / etc.
I *do* understand that I select my sigs myself, and that
thus they will reflect upon me. But I do wonder about
coincidence. How often does it happen that somebody mails
you out of the blue about suicide, you respond, and TB
"happens" to select a sig that relates to suicide? In my
case, that happens two out of three times.
Really, it is unnerving. I have a collection of 100+ cookies
and TB "selects" an appropriate one more often than is
called for. I'm starting to suspect some kind of NSA
paradigm at the heart of TB, or telepathy, or whatever.
Anyway, I *am* unnerved.
And of course, *this* time TB chose an innocent one just to
disprove me. I am freaking out.
- K -
--
Biographies rely on butch criteria: a life is plotted
according to the markers of death, marriage,
professional appointment, murder and military campaigns.
- Alain de Botton: Kiss & Tell
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