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Welcome...to the machine!

I just retrieved a message from my Spam folder notifying me of 2004 Orientation for incoming University of Texas undergraduates. I appreciated the invitation, except for the fact that I have been admitted as a graduate student and the sender is apparently unaware of the "BCC" feature on her mail program. The message was directly addressed to 1533 people. I'm guessing that's not the entire incoming class for Spring 2004...the last address on the list is followed by a comma and I'm pretty sure it was cut off beyond that point.

I'm also guessing there were a few other people like me that should never have been sent the message in the first place. There are 310 of us with "utexas" email addresses. There probably aren't that many UT staff workers are starting college in the Spring.

I'm just glad to know I'll be part of an incoming class with "alwaysrightchica", "householdrobot", "isawyouonyourbike", "jesspoopoo", "lord_of_the_shire", "Losinsleepoveru", "monkeluvr2001", "OUCHMYFRIGGINLEG", "spitandglue", "thesebrokenwings", and "xyouthattackx".

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The Pink Floyd song is no longer here, so I hope that's not what you came here for.

13 Comments

Tom DaBomb said:

Hey your Floyd song doesn't work. I cry!

tkaspar said:

It's back. Enjoy!

vinnie said:

hey wats up, i hope its cool that im streaming welcome to the machine from your site... i didn't have enough room... anyways, thanks a lot and check out the site

tkaspar said:

No, it's not really cool, but thanks for letting me know.

It's really there so people can save it rather than streaming it. If my bandwidth usage starts going nuts, I'll have to take it down. I'll drop you an email if/when that happens.

Sythrial said:

Thank you so much for having that song up there!!! i've been searching for it for a long time, and now: I love you forever.

sick boy said:

PINK FLOYD IS THE BEST!!!

Emily said:

Your Pink Floyd song doesn't work!!! All it says is "Game over man, its game over" How do u get the real one?

tkaspar said:

There was too much leeching going on. Like the McRib, it's back for a limited time. Save a copy for later.

kam said:

i am the lost ............to the workers ...brothers ..pink floyd ...i d'ont need you any more i am here. sure and very ...

Yes said:

Please put Welcome To The Machine back up, I have the record but a cruddy record player, I know some folks never heard of a record player, 8 track & maybe not even a cassete tape =8^O

tkaspar said:

How could I tell Yes no?

Sam Reader said:

Yah pink floyd song doesn't work again. Says "welcome to walmark.com the clip you requested is unavalible at this time. We are updating our sample audio clips daily so pease check back later"

tkaspar said:

It's actually wal-mart.com. I am going to refrain from uploading it again; I find 10GB of traffic in a month for a single file to be somewhat excessive.

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