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Wookin' Pa Nub

Brian Braiker

You would think the press room at the Consumer Electronics Show would have some pretty tech-savvy reporters in it. Well, you'd be right. But you'd also be surprised at how dumb they can be.

I was typing an email on one of the eleventy thousand laptops available in the corral and I thought I had properly hit Ctrl-C to copy a chunk of text. When I hit Ctrl-V, something very different popped up on my screen: a personal ad, complete with an email address. Apparently the person who had been on this computer before me had been dabbling in some extracurricular computer time--and neglected to cover her tracks. Unfortunately nothing too scandalous was involved. To wit:

If you had three wishes, what would they be?: 1. Good health for myself and my family. 2. The resources to continue to travel for the rest of my life. 3. A husband and 1-2 kids.

Well, now! As it happens, I am a husband with exactly 1-2 kids. Maybe I should get in touch?

Describe an interest you have that you would truly hope your partner could share with you.: Entertaining. Nothing makes me happier than filling my house with friends, good food, and good drinks. I would want a partner that enjoyed the same.

Oh, maybe not. I hate good food and good drinks. And especially my friends.

Personal ads are boring! Let's see what's going on over at good old dependably sleazy Craigslist. What do you think you get when you navigate on over to the "casual encounters" section and type in the search term "CES"? Let's find out ...

Oh my! Nothing you should be reading at work, that's for sure.

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