Monthly Archives: January 2026

creepy invasive customer tracking software.

creepy invasive customer tracking software

BEEPATRICE: Lemon?! Oh my gosh, I haven't seen you since Robot College! How are you? LEMON: I'm great! I'm moonlighting here to help AIs integrate with their new bodies. BEEPATRICE: Can you help Roko? She's not feeling well. LEMON: I know. Our creepy invasive customer tracking software flagged her as being in distress. BEEPATRICE: O-okay. What should we do? LEMON: First of all, we need to get her away from the creepy, invasive customer tracking software.” width=”474″ height=”688″ class=”size-large wp-image-16078″ srcset=

in the comic above, the three characters are BEEPATRICE, LEMON, and ROKO. BEEPATRICE and ROKO are at “The Body Hub”, where their friend MAY has just obtained a new body, to replace her, literally, “falling apart” old body. ROKO is experiencing a dissociative episode, having just obtained a new body after her old one was crushed. the dialogue is as follows:

BEEPATRICE: Lemon?! Oh my gosh, I haven’t seen you since Robot College! How are you?

LEMON: I’m great! I’m moonlighting here to help AIs integrate with their new bodies.

BEEPATRICE: Can you help Roko? She’s not feeling well.

LEMON: I know. Our creepy invasive customer tracking software flagged her as being in distress.

BEEPATRICE: O-okay. What should we do?

LEMON: First of all, we need to get her away from the creepy, invasive customer tracking software.

OKAY, now we get down to the REAL reason i posted this:

my “creepy, invasive customer tracking software” revealed to me, this afternoon, that i have two customers who live at the same address, which is a single family dwelling in a small town in the midwest.

yeah, there are others, but with them, i know, more or less, that they are either married, or long term partners, because they have lived at, and ordered incense from, the same address for more than a decade. with the people that were revealed to me today, one has been a customer for a couple of years, and the other is a first-time customer. i remember the house, specifically, because, at one point, the guy who has been a customer for a couple of years put something slightly different in as his address, which i couldn’t find on google maps (and i ALWAYS look up, particularly small town, out of the way locations on google maps, because it is a good way to filter out the spam). when i wrote to him about the difference, he specifically said that his street is only four blocks long, and the post office knows him…

and, today, i got a completely different order, from a completely different person, at EXACTLY the same address!

i guess it doesn’t have to be AI to be creepy… 😒

the cloud drive crack of 2021

rebuilding

ever since the cloud drive crack of 2021, i have been slowly rebuilding my music collection, half of which was unique tracks and albums that i had downloaded many years ago, as bittorrents, or through using IRC, back when music piracy was more a way of life than it is (or even can be) these days, and, for the most part, that has not been even close to replaced. i have been buying physical media (mostly audio CDs, but a fair quantity of DVDs and vinyl albums, as well) WHENEVER POSSIBLE, to avoid another similar incident in the future.

along those lines, i am 100% CERTAIN i bought a CD by The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (Das Erste Wiener Gemüseorchester) called The Green Album within the past few years, but i cannot currently locate it, which is somewhat alarming… as i KNOW FOR CERTAIN that i bought it.

at this point, i have gone through all 4 CD books (probably 200 – 300 approximately 7 800 CDs) TWICE without finding it. at this point, the only other possibility is the box of “CDs and covers” which is on the top shelf of the closet/desk, and requires “special handling” to get it down from the top shelf without breaking something or someone, so i’ve sort of been putting it off. 😒

ETA 260111: yep, that’s where it was. 😕

i’m pretty close to having approximately half of what i had prior to the crack, i.e. just under 1TB of digital information. prior to the crack, my collection was around 2.5TB of digital information. what i recovered is about 500GB of information, and, of that, around 100 to 250GB is corrupt. i’m still going through recovered data, searching for the increasingly rare document that i can definitively place somewhere. 😩

COVID19, health, hybrid elephant, philharmonic, snake suspenderz / alive

pantover

panto is done for another season. next is the moisture festival, in a couple months. there was talk of getting the band together to do a concert at somebody’s house, but i didn’t pick up on the details. there is also a potential Snakez Alive gig at someone’s house, when the weather gets nicer, but i don’t know when that’s going to be, yet.

i’ve already filled my first incense order of the year. over $100 worth of aparajita sent to henlow, bedfordshire, united kingdom, so it’s also the first overseas order of the year. according to my automated “cash register”, i took in a total of $2,490.98 in net sales, last year, which is 37% more than in 2024, and i had 34 customers, which is 3% more than in 2024… woo…?

i got my flu vaccine, and my most recent COVID booster today, so i’m all set to feel like i’ve been run over by a truck tomorrow, but i’ll wait until tomorrow before i determine for sure whether or not that has happened.