The census just got stranger.
Jul. 27th, 2006 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamSo I got tagged for this year's US census -- evidently they chose ten random residents of my dorm, and I got lucky. Which meant I had to fill out a survey booklet and hand it in. Whatever, I've got no problem with the stand up and be counted business, it was twenty minutes out of my life, but I can cope. Hurrah for being a statistic.
Today I got an email reminding me to turn it in. Fine, that makes sense. There were two really fabulous things about this email, though: first, my name was spelled wrong -- even though it was spelled right on the census, and presumably this email came from the same mass database that that did. Secondly, it was sent from a hotmail address. Seriously. With a number on the end of the username and the ad for the MSN toolbar on the bottom and everything. I guess representatives of the census bureau don't rate a .gov email address? Way to suck, US government. (God I am such a geek snob.)
Today I got an email reminding me to turn it in. Fine, that makes sense. There were two really fabulous things about this email, though: first, my name was spelled wrong -- even though it was spelled right on the census, and presumably this email came from the same mass database that that did. Secondly, it was sent from a hotmail address. Seriously. With a number on the end of the username and the ad for the MSN toolbar on the bottom and everything. I guess representatives of the census bureau don't rate a .gov email address? Way to suck, US government. (God I am such a geek snob.)
