• AdT (unregistered) in reply to BlueCollarAstronaut
    BlueCollarAstronaut:
    If you rotate the image by about 54% and crank up the contrast and magnification in Photoshop, you could probably find the right genetic makeup for an Alex clone.

    Probably not because of the JPEG artifacts in the nucleotides. Alex should have used the PNG format instead (Portable Nerd Genome).

  • Kitgerrits (unregistered) in reply to Pooma

    Keep in mind, that his address is available in computer-legible form from the Sticker Action site:

    http://worsethanfailure.com/Special/70224_stickers.aspx

    I remember the early days of keeping several, separate personalities on-line, complete with names, locations and e-mail addresses. These days, there's no point in keeping them separate, because anyone that matters can simply trace them all to the same IP / company. Staying seriously anonymous (Tor, etc.), these days, requires a geek-level I'm not willing to keep up anymore.

  • (cs)

    The real WTF is that Alex apparently has simply scanned the AT&T bill. WTF is the wooden desk? Tsk tsk tsk...

  • jay (unregistered)

    Years ago I closed my account at a certain bank. A little over a year later I get a bill from them stating "Beginning balance: $0, Deposits: $0, Withdrawals: $0, Ending balance: $0, Service charge: $7". So they charge a service fee to everyone who does not have any money in their bank? What a great business plan! As there are about 6 billion people in the world who are not customers, that would give them an income of $42 billion per year!

    I simply ignored it and I never heard anything further from them.

  • Anon E. Mouse (unregistered)

    OMGZ i m uh hax0r http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=worsethanfailure.com

    Seriously people, wipe the drool from your mouth. It's an address... who cares?

  • (cs) in reply to AdT
    AdT:
    Puck:
    Not only that, if you horizontally flip the image of the phone bill and screw with the contrast, you can quite plainly see the other side of the bill...

    Most of the text remains blurred though. JPEG artifacts do seem to have certain advantages...

    One of the phone numbers is quite legible though. I won't say which but the cross total is 36...

    For anyone too lazy to be OMGLEETX0R like us - http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2011412070&size=o

  • NeoMojo (unregistered) in reply to Paul
    Paul:
    dubya:
    Paul:
    For a geeky 10 year old there's always whois as well.
    Unless Alex registered the domain through, say, GoDaddy.

    And how would that stop it? You just use their web based WHOIS server...

    Maybe GoDaddy act as registrar for the individual? Like if you look up matthewellen.co.uk you don't get details on the individual, but the hosting company.

  • James (unregistered)

    Alex, if you're reading this, I might humbly suggest a little highlight/box around the $0.01 on that last image -- I didn't "get" it until the 3rd or 4th time looking at it. My first assumption was that the card was supposed to go over the wording "this gift card..." etc, and hadn't been attached. I saw it eventually, but it would be a good idea to draw the eye to it a bit more.

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to Deron Meranda
    Deron Meranda:
    "Extended warranty on one red paperclip? I didn't know you can do that!"

    I once bought a 6-pack of ping pong balls from Dick's. The cost was something like 1.50, including tax. Then the checkout guy, after noticing a message that popped up on his terminal, paused and then asked me if I wanted to buy the extended warranty for only $5.00 more! He could barely keep himself from laughing. I was really tempted but decided to decline. He agreed with my decision (off the record), but said that he had to ask me since the computer said so.

    I wish now that I had actually signed up. That would have been $5.00 well spent for future amusement.

    I'd have wanted to know what it covered.

    If it covers the normal 'failures' (eg splitting etc) - it could have been "fun" to see how many claims you could make against the warranty after some energetic table tennis.

  • PhysicsPhil (unregistered) in reply to Zygo

    For vending machine WTFery, you can't get much better than a pair in my college. One, a coke machine, will give you randomly 0, 1 or 2 cans, with an average of about 1.25, when you buy one, and will not always charge you the full amount (as in, you put in $1, buy the drink, and it gives 30c change if you are lucky). It also gives the wrong drink occasionally, adn sometimes gives out two cans of different types with one button press. The other vending machine will sometimes refuse to supply the food unless you have excess cash entered, but will then give change almost correctly, but does this inconsistently. The change is also something of a WTF, since it often gives out too much change, by randomly spitting out say a 10c piece.

  • Rudy Gunawan (unregistered)

    Ehm, Alex, are you sure to reveal your own address here?

  • Vegeta (unregistered)

    I actually live about half an hour away from there 0_0

  • Jeremy (unregistered) in reply to Phill
    Phill:
    Pooma:
    That, please, please little squirrel loving saints, can't be Alex's real address can it?

    Otherwise I'm making an early nomination for real-WTF (the frist of many...)

    That was exactly my first thought. I'm amazed that people don't seem to mind putting their home address and a telephone bill that clearly lists some of their friend's (or family's) numbers up onto a public website. That to me is a serious WTF.

    I hope that was NOT Alex's credit card number on the front from Staples!

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