Online Fame | A 'blog written by Chris Rhee

One of the classes I’m taking at college is Women and Crime, and on our first day of class, our teacher told us that the most recent/fastest growing crime going on right now is identity theft. It’s funny listening to someone talk about what they think is the truth.

Not to say I’m some criminal mastermind, but I know that they should be given a lot more credit and shouldn’t be underestimated. Identity theft was “big” many years ago. It’s just that recently a bunch of wannabes got their hands on the information of how to do it and are doing it stupidly (which results in them getting caught).

It’s just like hacking. The “real” hackers know what’s going on a few months/years before the majority of so-called “hackers” that you hear about on the news. Once you hear about some new crime, it usually means the “real criminals” have moved on to something that the public won’t even hear about until a few years later, after they’ve exploited the crap out of it.

I just read recently: Charles Stein from The Boston Globe says, “…Soon, as technology advances, pirates will be able to ’share’ everything from books to HBO’s lineup to sophisticated software. That’s not a future we should embrace”. Hate to break it to you, but books, television shows and “sophisticated software” has been offered online for a few years now.

There are groups who have the technology to intercept a satellite feed while the show is beamed to local networks, so they can even offer a television show before it ever shows up on your TV sets. Last year, the first four episodes of The Sopranos had been ripped before the first one even ran. Digital copies of books are also available if you know where to look.

This is why crime pays. Everyone is so damn far behind.

Last week, I started going to school again. Luckily, there aren’t too many classes where people have my name. Apparently, everyone has this need to name their children, Chris. I don’t know if it’s just me, but whenever I find out someone has the same name as me I’m just like, “…Fuck that guy” (although my girlfriend feels the same way).

When people have names that have the same beginning sound as my name, it also causes problems for me (people with names like, Crystal, Christina, Christine, Chrisgarghe2, etc). Because if their name is called out, I immediately turn my head around and then I’m made to look foolish and have to act like I was turning my head for some other reason…

I was strolling through Blockbuster the other night, looking for a movie to watch and got handed this invitation to a bible study meeting/cult gathering or whatever the hell it was. People bitch about pop-ups ads, but how about this shit? I’m looking for a movie and this guy calls me out and pretty much forces me to take this little advertisement from him.

I guess I should get used to it because I’m just starting college and I bet I’ll get handed many papers that will end up being a waste of trees, but I just wish I had a real-life pop up advertisement blocker (or pop up KILLER). Maybe everytime someone tries to hand me a flyer, I’ll hand one back for my “How not to annoy the crap out of people that are just walking around” services.

The reason for my lack of posting recently is because I’m working and when I’m not working, I’m talking to my girlfriend or trying to read a page or two from Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.

It’s not so much that I can’t find five minutes a day to post something, it’s that I’m concentrating on so many things at once that I don’t let random thoughts into my head. Which leaves me with nothing of interest to post about.

But here’s one that accidentally got through today: I wish I was born earlier. And I feel bad for the kids who are to be born in the year 3000 or something. I bet they’ll have to carry around a history book the size of a… very big history book.

And we’re even more detailed with our documentation now. At least the cave man had nothing, but a couple of pictures drawn on walls.

If I had lost one or both of my arms, I’d be doing some major crimes. No finger prints and if someone starts ranting about some one-armed man being the real killer, they’ll just be like, “Yeah, I saw that movie, too”. Anyway, what are the cops going to do even if they catch you? Handcuff you?