Thank you for the update, Cliff. I will update your Wikipedia page to show that your death is currently under dispute.
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Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#222A doctor friend of mine once joked that it would be really cruel to issue a death certificate for someone who is alive. This seems to be a soft version of that. The only thing that would be crueler is to revoke someone's birth certificate. "Sir, you never existed in the first place."
My ex-spouse worked in IT at a hospital and their user account was inadvertently marked dead. It ended up taking weeks of effort to remedy the problem, as the system wasn't built to handle corpses suddenly arising or perhaps less plausibly, data entry errors. It was one of those "funny until it happens to you" moments as I was still in grad school and payroll doesn't cut checks for dead employees who can't submit timecards...
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've gone out of my way to not read my wikipedia page. Beyond this, there's a rule (suggestion??) that you not edit your own biographical page. As a result, I have no idea whether things are right, wrong, misguided, or kflooey on that page. Anyone who wants to know details can simply stop over here for coffee and a chat. Cheers, -Cliff
You can suggest changes on the talk page. > Wikipedia provides a structured process for subjects to suggest changes without directly editing articles. The mechanism centers on the article's "talk page", a discussion area attached to every Wikipedia entry where editors coordinate improvements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_a_page_about...
Aah - thank you. Maybe I'll check it out. When I have free time. Uh right...
Cheers, -Cliff
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#224"Let me know if there's any change in his condition" (from the movie Top Secret)
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#225Thanks, this just reminded me to order some Klein Bottles. I realized right after I hit "Finish" that I should have included in the note a big thank you for both the Cuckoo's Egg (reading it and learning about unix systems and teletypes and worms made me feel like I was part of some secret nerdy club in the early 90s… although tbh getting my parents to drop me off every month at the Chattanooga BBS get-together brunc…
If this post from Cliff was a cunning strategy to increase sales of Acme Klein Bottles, well, it's worked.
I too just ordered one (having been meaning to do so for a good number of years at this point).
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#226A similar story from the always hilarious Dave Barry! https://davebarry.substack.com/p/death-by-ai Note: Dave Barry is not dead. He is, in fact, alive.
To be fair, that's exactly the sort of thing a dead person would say, if they were trying to trick you into believing they were alive.
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#227"I thought you was dead, man".
"I was. It didn't take".
Re: Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
#228Look at it from the bright side; not many people get to read their own obituaries.
> Look at it from the bright side;
Aaaaannnd.. aaaalways look on the bright side of life!
Always look on the light side of life...
...
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word