MacBrave's Journal: Story on /. about where you grew up. Wierd

This story: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/22/0527210 about Kokomo, IN popped up on the /. main page a little while ago.

My Dad was born and raised in Kokomo, although my parents moved out of town when I was about a year old and settled in the rural metropolis of Wawpecong (what, no wikipedia link?), pop 75, about 10 miles north of Kokomo.

Dad worked at the Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo for 34 years, my Mom at Kokomo's St. Joseph hospital for 35. My sister's family still lives in Kokomo.

I guess it is a little wierd to see a story on /. about a place where you are/were still close to.

I'm just rambling........

ah yes that is like the time...

[bofh31337]

that like the time a guy i was friends with years before was on the front page because he was arrested for hachion into axiom or something.. i can't find the story now...

I actually read TFA

[Degrees]

I actually read TFA, and it was interesting, in that I work for a local government as an email administrator, and wondered what type a trouble an official could get himself into....

The /. article expanded on it though - the kid signed up to the city newsletter, and got spammed by the mayor's campaign committee. This is thin ice. It is very illegal to use public funds/services/buildings/equipment in the operation of any citizen's campaign for office. Well, mostly. There are people who want Congress to fund