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title: "The Bluetooth Ghost"
date: 2005-10-21T14:35:48-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/10/21/the-bluetooth-ghost/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [asides]
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# The Bluetooth Ghost

There's a guy here in our office building who wanders around endlessly talking on a Bluetooth headset.  He does this all day long and in a variety of locales—including while standing at the urinal in our floor's shared restroom.  But, I've never actually seen him interact with people in real proximity to him:  He just sort of paces and drifts around like some sort of between-worlds spirit.  Sometimes I wonder if he might not just be more comfortable doing this sort of thing at home, or while feeding the birds in a nice park somewhere...

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                <a href="#comment-221084337" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-21T18:59:25">2005-10-21T18:59:25</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>That creepy little guy still haunts my dreams.</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221084339" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-22T00:49:46">2005-10-22T00:49:46</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>Maybe he's combining the #1 and #3 of the <a href="http://okdork.com/?p=48" rel="nofollow">Top 10 ways to look busy at work</a>?</p></div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221084341" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-10-22T09:49:17">2005-10-22T09:49:17</time></a>
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            <div class="content"><p>I forwarded this to the friend who I co-referee a BtVS game with. I love the idea of a ghost stuck wandering this world because of a cursed bluetooth headset or some such.</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>Bill:  Hah!  That seems like it'd fit perfect in a BtVS story :)</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>Andrew: You've found my top secret nerd lair!  How you doing?</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>that guys <em>is</em> truly strange. he's probably a high-ranking dungeonmaster...</p></div>
            
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            <div class="content"><p>Or schizophrenic and found a way to hide the fact.</p></div>
            
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