My Signal username is @lahosken.26. I updated the Larry Hosken Contact Information web page to reflect this.
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USA congress-callers, you have other sites
If 5 Calls isn't working for you today, here's a similar site: The 65. It doesn't conveniently show you your senator/rep's phone # on the same screen as info about the issue… but you...
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CA congress-callers, you have 2 senators
I love reading tweets&posts from my friends calling their congress critters. The 5 Calls web site is pretty excellent for keeping track of issues to call about; and I see a lot of folks are using...
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I was abstractly tsk-ing the rumors that Yahoo had stopped forwarding email until I remembered that a couple of SF Bay Area puzzlehunt mailing lists are on Yahoo Groups. Hmm, when I go visit puzzleh...
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Change of Address: lahosken@gmail.com
My email address is lahosken@gmail.com . Some mail to @lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us addresses isn't getting through. ("How much doesn't get through?" you ask. I'm not sure—as near as I ca...
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posted my kloak contact info
I posted my kloak QR code with the rest of my contact information. I mailed that QR code to a bunch of folks. But when I was looking for lists of people to mail it to, I used social networks. So I di...
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That "Barbarian" missing text was a false alarm, sorry. It's actually an old text, months old. When I switched to this new messaging app, I imported my old messages into the new app. A while later, t...
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Update: This was a false alarm. This was an old text buried in my inbox; not a new text accidentally deleted. Whoopsie. If you recently sent me a text that starts "Barbarians at the gate", I lost t...
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+1 415 868 4629 is still my phone number
I'm switching my mobile service over to Project Fi. Along the way, I'm fiddling with approximately a bazillion phone settings. But in theeeory, I'm set up and the Larry Hosken Contact Information pag...
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Charitable Giving for People with Tiny Mailboxes, Part 2
Once again, I saved my bulk mail from charities for a couple of years and just now counted it out. Some organizations get things done without sending me a bunch of crap; some organizations send me a...
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Site: Updated Contact Info New Phone Number
I have a new phone and a new phone number to go with it: 1 415 868 4629. So I updated the Larry Hosken Contact Info page and there was much rejoicing. I also have a Hello Kitty bag to hold the phone...
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Site Update: I'm on Twitter. (Are you?)
I signed up for Twitter. Yes, you can now get updates about my status much more often than you want to. You can see my Twitter status if you visit this blog's front page; if you resourcefully follo...
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Charitable Giving for People with Tiny Mailboxes
As a bleeding heart tree-hugging liberal dupe of the special interests, I give to many charitable organizations. Then they send me paper mail to let me know what they're doing and to encourage me to...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, even Redmond
I was planning to visit the Seattle area this autumn. MS Puzzlehunt 11 is happening around then. Any Microsofties reading this... any suggestions on how I might volunteer as slave labor for the fol...
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Spam Filtering
If you send mail to this domain, I might discard it without looking at it. But I probably won't. For the last few weeks, I've been using a spam filter to... filter spam. I've been carefully lookin...
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