lornamatic

So it started with a little anomaly in the stats.

Hundreds of referrals from Craigslist.

Hundreds.

Not just from one Craigslist. From Craigslists all over the place. And every link had been removed by the CL community, or sometimes by the staff.

WTF?

I dig around in the stats for a while. Ah-ha, there it is: vaio.jpg. Open up the photo.

OMG.

It’s a photo, of me, embracing a new vaio box with maybe a little too much love, but you know, cut me some slack. Things were bad for a while there, what with that Dell laptop that caught on fire, remember, in my lap. Then there was the replacement for that, which broke after a month or so, and then the replacement for that, which never caught on fire, but wasn’t so great either.

Anyway. I was glad to have that stupid little Vaio. It was the promise of Good Things To Come. At least, for a little while.

Ultimately that Vaio wouldn’t boot up unless you popped it in the freezer for 5 minutes or so. When I moved into an apartment with a side-by-side refrigerator/freezer, the 15″ screen didn’t fit anymore, and the machine hasn’t been turned on since.

But, I digress. Back to the mystery: Why were so many people from Craigslist hitting my server?

At last, the answer! Someone was using my picture to hawk some kind of laptop “giveaway.” Just go fill in your information at this website, and you’ll get your free vaio, just like I GOT MINE. (insert picture of unsuspecting internet idiot with vaio here)

So the thing is, I have access to this image. I can change it to whatever I want. Not feeling all that creative, here’s what I came up with. (My contribution is in green)

Anonymous Craigslist scamming dude still hasn’t figured it out. So here’s the LOL: while this is still up and running, do please offer up your best suggestions as to what else I should post instead of this image.

updated: Looks like our friend has moved on. Fun while it lasted!

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