Having written well in excess of 30,000 posts……….
……..I do a pretty good job not being repetitive. In other words, I tend to remember what I’ve written about over the course of the past two decades. Thus, when I wanted to piss and moan about some of the really dumb security questions out there, I knew I had done so in the past – – first, way back in 2009 (a post so ancient, the graphics don’t even exist anymore) and another in 2017. But I can’t help myself. This just bugs me too much.
What prompted this is the California Franchise Tax Board site (you know the place – – where we send over 10% of our hard-earned income so they can piss it away on stuff like High Speed Rail projects that will never, ever, ever be completed). I registered an account on the site, and it demanded I choose three security questions.
No need to rehash what I’ve said already; as I wrote in a prior post:
I mean, look, take something like “What is your favorite movie?” Do they serious expect a person to have ONE SPECIFIC MOVIE for that answer? If you met me at a cocktail party for the first time and asked me to name some of my favorite movies, it would be simple – – I’d probably start rattling off Blue Velvet, Wrath of Khan, Glengarry Glen Ross, Apocalypse Now, Clockwork Orange – – I’d probably name about twenty films before I had to think hard about it. But ONE? Just ONE? Are you kidding me? Indeed, if you’re the sort of person who could actually name just a single movie that was their standout favorite, you must be so blinkered and shallow that I’d rather speak to someone else at the aforementioned party, thank you very much. Go stand over there.
I do find it amusing that the super-geniuses who cobbled this website together (which probably cost God-knows-how-much, since the state can’t make good decisions) allows for 3 to 17 characters for any of the answers. So be sure to have a terrific 3-character answer for such crystal-clear, answer-will-never-change questions such as:
- If money was no object, what would you do all day?
- If you could change any feature about yourself, what would it be?
- If you could eat only one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Somewhere out there in California, some guy answered “dick” for all three of these questions. And it fits neatly in just 4 characters.
