CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@robinadams

"My shuttlecraft is full of eels. Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?"

@kabel42 @mms

@mms though that's almost worse—language and culture are intimately intertwined, so this suggests the obliteration of thousands of cultures in pursuit of the unity

Watching a Star Trek clip recently, it struck me that humanity currently has ~7100 distinct languages. Yet on Star Trek, they speak "Klingon" or "Romulan" or "Vulcan", etc as if a planet only ever had one language. That'd be like saying you speak Human.

That's now going to bug me indefinitely.

:disgruntled:

A quick bit of shell-scripting against my Inbox maildir shows 38 unique addresses just there, and that doesn't consider all the mail in folders.

Digging though the whole mail-tree turns up 461 unique addresses.

find ~/Mail -type f -name '*:*' -print0 |
xargs -0 awk -F" *: *" '/^$/{nextfile} {$0 = tolower($0)} $1 =="to" || $1 == "cc" || $1 == "envelope-to"{print $2}' * |
sed 's/.*<\([^>]*\)>.*/\1/g;s/, */,/g' |
tr , '\012' |
grep $MYDOMAIN |
sort -u |
wc -l

@briankrebs

the "email addresses used in the last ten years" is ludicrous. I use catch-all email-addresses and hand out concocted addresses liberally. They expect me to remember every "joesblog@mydomain.example.com" address ever used?

And every family-member's phone-number used? I barely remember my wife's phone-number let alone relatives I sporadically call via the phone.

(I mean, the rest is pretty over-the-top too, so the whole "avoid the US" is good advice regardless, but some elements are nigh-impossible)