Geoff Fox: My Permanent Record
Back when I was in school teachers would always scare me with stories of how my exploits would end up in my permanent record. I believe this is it! – Geoff Fox
I take full responsibility. Sara knew it. Joe knew it. I… well I was negligent in spelling negligent.
On the other hand it was a great night for the Farmington Public School Foundation who sponsored the event.
I take full responsibility. Sara knew it. Joe knew it. I… well I was negligent in spelling negligent.
On the other hand it was a great night for the Farmington Public School Foundation who sponsored the event. It was well attended by people who spell better than I do!
By the way, Farmington continues to be the iconic New England town. As pretty as can be.
I was never a good speller. Now with spell checking enabled on all my devices I get to hide it.
My one spelling triumph came in the third grade at PS163Q. In our class spelling bee I won with “government.” By the time I was called all the other more sensible spellings had been tried.
I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m heading to Farmington tonight with Sara Grant and Joe Furey. Uh oh.
The first annual Farmington Public School Foundation Adult Spelling Bee will be held Friday, May 11, 2012, from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Sarah Porter Memorial in Farmington, CT.
I was never a good speller. Now with spell checking enabled on all my devices I get to hide it.
My one spelling triumph came in the third grade at PS163Q. I won with “government” in our class spelling bee. It wasn’t a clean win. By the time I was called all the other more sensible spellings had been tried.
Strangely this is one of the few grade school events I remember vividly. Why would someone remember the word they won with fifty years after the fact? I’m baffled.
I’ll let you know how we do. I’m hoping Joe and Sara can prop me up.
The Internet isn’t anonymous. In order for data to be sent to a computer the server must know its IP address. So, when this person spewed on my website it was in my logs.
Someone doesn’t like me. OK–that’s an understatement. Of those who don’t like me someone is being pretty mean about it sending me a stream of vile emails and blog comments. It’s been going on for a while.
Not only have I been the target, so has a co-worker and some other people (more on them later).
I know who it is. It’s pretty obvious. I just don’t know why–what I ever did to this person to deserve his wrath?
I suspect some of you reading this know who it is too. You connect the dots.
This weekend he sent comments to my blog from a McDonalds on Mansfield Avenue in Norton, MA. That’s right by I-495. Today it was from a Barnes and Noble in Farmington, CT. That’s what you’d expect if someone in Maine was coming here for a visit or vacation.
Most of the time his stuff has come from the Bangor area of Maine.
How do I know? The Internet isn’t anonymous. In order for data to be sent to a computer the server must know its IP address. So, when this person spewed on my website it was in my logs.
Facebook is a little more problematic. Well, it was until I found out the originating IP address in Facebook mail is hashed within the message and it can be pulled out. With that little tidbit I found a mean and nasty email sent to a co-worker via Facebook came from a RoadRunner account serviced from Warren, ME, between Portland and Bangor.
Earlier web comments came from another Maine RoadRunner account and from a business account serviced by MidMaine.net
Our miscreant has a variety of pen names he uses, creating and discarding Gmail accounts at will. The most interesting to me are: Fishers4, Dick Fishamajig and JackHammer1968.
Fishers4 and Fishamajig would imply this is someone who knows something about fishing. The 1968 might be his birth year.
One of these pseudonyms appears on a bulletin board sending the same “good wishes” to a former KC-101, Country 92, disk jockey. Maybe our boy has a radio connection?
I know who this is. I have all the pieces except why. I’d rather not go to the police and lodge a case for harassment, but I’m getting to the point where I have no choice.
As I said in the beginning–some of you know this person. Maybe it’s time to put a hand across his shoulder and give him some wise advice. You’ve been caught. Stop.