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Stefan says:

I found this while tidying up a filing cabinet yesterday. Wow. I feel old. I think my subscription started with issue #9. This account is long closed and the address 15 years out of date, so I don't mind posting it.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Man, everything about that check makes me feel old. I joined that credit union when I got my first job out of school. It was the employee credit union for Pan Am airlines, which was winding down when I joined. There was this guy who ran a souvenir table in the branch near work; he sold Pan Am memorabilia. Post cards, flight bags, notebooks, that kind of thing. It seemed so damn sad, that this airline that was supposed to run passenger service to a space station had been reduced to a table of knick-knacks.
- Robert
  
  I have a set of Pan Am airplane headphones — real ones, not the air-tube plastic ones they used to have. They even work and they are so nostalgic.
- http://twitter.com/amanicdroid Dr. Chronobiologist
  
  The credit union appears to no longer exist and probably did not exist into the internet age judging by the low number of Google results https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&q=%22pan+american+federal+credit+union%22
  
  Feeling old is the correct response.
  - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
    
    It changed names and went through mergers. Not sure what form it exists in now.
- http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore
  
  And then you in turn set off all my Steve Jackson Games nostalgia, which makes ME feel old. :D
FourFeetOfCurl

The first meme of 2013: Where is Stefan Jones?

Oh, there he is.
10xor01

Is the content from #9 for “Home Surgery on Your Pets” online somewhere? I’m intrigued, and possibly horrified.
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
  
  Oh, man, was that gross. It was about draining a giant boil or abscess on a cat’s head.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1454886561 Julien Laflamme

At least, you could have censored the adress or the numbers at the bottom of the check… it gives personnal informations about this person, who is maybe still alive and using this very same bank account…
- timquinn
  
  quite possibly even closer than that!
- xzzy
  
  At least, you could have read the full blog entry where it’s clearly stated the address and bank account are both out of date.
  - awjt
    
    At least you could humor the unwitting and play along with the fabricated travesty! As the rest of us are!
Keith Seric

Probably not a great idea to be posting someones signature online either, regardless of rather or not those routing/account numbers and address are still in use. Although previous addressed are used for identity fraud schemes and account verification through credit bureaus.
- awjt
  
  I’m signing all my legal documents “Stefan Jones” from now on, in the same hand. Thanks, Stefan, for your fine penmanship.
  - http://mrsplooge.myopenid.com/ bob
    
    I sign all my Visa slips as “GOD” or “Bob Saget”
- max00
  
  How often do you see a signature actually get a meaningful authentication? Because those are the situations where keeping it a secret will help you out.
  
  The rest of the time, requiring a signature makes it a little more likely someone will have committed fraud.
taj

Awesome find, Stefan!
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This is why you don’t post stuff like this online..
http://www.mylife.com/c-1284599931

About Stefan Jones
- taj
  
  that is extremely creepy!
- Shibi_SF
  
  Well, now I know way too much about Stefan Jones.
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
  
  Some of that is accurate. A lot isn’t.
  
  There is another Stefan Jones in Pittsburgh. And a couple in the Portland area.
  
  (In fact, when I lived in Pittsburgh, I got a few phone calls meant for the other Stefan . . . who I had met years before when he was a sales person and I was a sales trainer. And once in Powell’s I went to the customer service desk to answer a page and found one of the other Stefans there with his party.)
  - awjt
    
    You’re pretty stoic. I must say I’d be creeped out by some person posting all that stuff under the name “.” Well, my comments were pretty creepy too, but they were, honestly, meant in jest.
    - http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
      
      The stuff posted by “.” was just an old resume I myself posted.
Over the River

and this is why I always reference this site as bOING bOING.
- bibulb
  
  Glad to know I’m not the only one…
- edkedz
  
  I totally would if I wasn’t too lazy.
http://twitter.com/the_damned_fool the damned fool

High five if (like me) you subscribed to bOING bOING because of the ad in the back of the now defunct Spy magazine. ”Get Illuminated!”
bolamig

I like that the bank lists their zip code but not their address. Seems like a simpler time when mail was routed by people who knew things instead of OCR robots.
princeminski

I guess this is off topic, but bOING bOING was a really great zine.
Robert Cruickshank

I moved recently, and while cleaning up found a box of bOING bOINGs, Factsheet Fives, Mondo 2000s, receipts for modems that cost 200 dollars, and cancelled cheques made out to BBSs. Doesn’t seem that long ago…
http://twitter.com/erikbe Erik Englund

The first time I ever even heard of Boing Boing was when I bought Issue 8 of Mondo 2000 (Diamanda Galas on cover) at a local comic book/magazine store (Shinders) in Minnesota. The cashier said…”this is good, but I like Boing Boing better”. Had NO IDEA what he was talking about…I think I was probably 16 or 17 at the time.
invictus

Psst, Stefan… That’s “users’ manuals,” not “user’s manuals.” I only mention it because this seems like an important document, you understand.