The Number of the Day
Today is sponsored by the number one: In one week I will use my one-way ticket to move across the world. Once I arrive, I will have been in Melbourne one time.
I Voted! (8 Times!)
I voted today! 8 times!
This is the first US presidential election where ballets have been sent to overseas voters by email. You can't actually submit your vote by email though because apparently email is not secure enough. The options - Mail or Fax. Yes, fax. Not sure how fax is more secure than email, but maybe that's something that our presidential candidates could have considered when they were sending old-fashioned emails back in the day ;)
Has anyone actually tried faxing anything in the last 20 years? Let alone fax something to an international number? It's not exactly easy... There's a large quantity of zeros and ones involved, and then the machine beeps and whistles while you stare it it wondering if it's working. And it keeps making those sounds for about thirty minutes until you give up and walk away. Just at that moment it usually prints out a piece of paper saying the transmittal failed and you have to start over.
So I tried that yesterday, …
This is the first US presidential election where ballets have been sent to overseas voters by email. You can't actually submit your vote by email though because apparently email is not secure enough. The options - Mail or Fax. Yes, fax. Not sure how fax is more secure than email, but maybe that's something that our presidential candidates could have considered when they were sending old-fashioned emails back in the day ;)
Has anyone actually tried faxing anything in the last 20 years? Let alone fax something to an international number? It's not exactly easy... There's a large quantity of zeros and ones involved, and then the machine beeps and whistles while you stare it it wondering if it's working. And it keeps making those sounds for about thirty minutes until you give up and walk away. Just at that moment it usually prints out a piece of paper saying the transmittal failed and you have to start over.
So I tried that yesterday, …
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