Corey the Code Monkey
Last week I received this from Yahoo and laughed my ass off at the job title, “Code Monkey”.
From what I can recall and dig up in Google, I am only described with this title in two places. Twitter and my ol’ buddy David Ford used it in my avatar caption at PPV Playbook forum. Now granted I didn’t dig too deeply in google but I can’t really recall where else I have used this as my job description which makes you wonder where Yahoo is scraping to get their mailing list? I checked my Yahoo profile and no where is “code monkey” included.
This brings me to another point about mailing lists… A few months back I received a mailing for something in the biz op realm or life insurance addressed to “princess pearl sourslam”. Interesting name eh? There’s an even better source. When my daughter was 7, about 5 years ago she was super into disney.com’s virtual world “Toon Town”. This is an awesome online gaming world where you design a character and race around this world battling the evil cogs and interacting with various other toon town members.
Princess Pearl Sourslam was my daughters first character. I know for a fact that this is the only place we used that name as it was auto generated by the toon town program. Now, how a mailing company got a hold of my home address and put that together with “Princess Pearl Sourslam” as a hot biz op or life insurance lead is beyond me.
Was Disney’s database compromised and they didn’t know? Did they know but failed to notify anyone about the hack? I have no answer to these questions but these are the “things that make you say hmmmmm”.
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