Wide-eyed and Jaded

Unless it’s about the TTC, it’s rare to see 36 comments on a Toronto-based LiveJournal post these days. I’m totally going oldschool on your arses!

I just read this post about a lost passport found and returned using swift (some call it creepy?) Internet skillz:

I found a passport
I found a passport on the streets, what do I do? The thing is, he is from the US! He just came to Canada on the 25th.

I googled him (like a creeper) and found nothing.

returned it

…in the most creepy stalkerish way! If I knew about the Consolate, I would have done that first…but their hours would have been inconvenient anyways (I work 9-6) Not like government hours are ever convenient….
Thanks for all the replies! As a reward I’ll tell you how I found him (like a creeeep)

Okay, so I googled his name and only two relative results for patents he filed for. It told me he worked at IBM so I googled his name and IBM and found his LinkedIn page which had a picture that matched his pp picture. Good! I can send him a note there—signed up and yada yada. Tried to send him a message but it wanted me to pay to upgrade. Bah! Facebook did not bring results….but wait! LinkedIn is like facebook, ah! a work website. I called up their offices and they said he was in London (?) A few calls and e-mails later, I find out that he works about 6mins away! Turns out he didn’t know it was lost–all is good now

Way to work a computer, delirious_asian!