How did I become a disconnect, you ask? I wanted to take part in the pet photo Friday meme, but I didn't have a pet, so I borrowed a photo from somebody else. The sniffer detected that it wasn't my photo, cross-referenced to make sure the buried GPS info was from a place that I'd never been, and flagged me. The human didn't process my flag and send me a snail mail warning until three weeks later, after I'd posted another couple of photos of the dog that wasn't mine, and there you go. Three strikes and you're out. Now I'm a disconnect. They flagged my ID and put the crossed signal on it and everything. Internet cafes have to check ID, so I'm out. If I buy a computer legally, they have to disable the connect after they see my ID. I lost my job, which depended on the connect (whose doesn't, these days!). Just like that, my comfortable life went poof! All because of a stupid pet photo meme.


Inspiration: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/25/leaked-tpp-the-son-of-acta-w.html
Story Potential: Medium.
Notes: Eh. Awful, too probable, but not story-fodder for my brain.

Aiko had 4,627 husbands, and sometimes they drove her to distraction. One wanted her to have his shirts ironed, another wanted to iron them himself. One wanted to save the world by requiring all companies to abide by strict regulations, another wanted to become the CEO of a majorcorp. They all loved her. And it was her responsibility to love and support and encourage them all, even when they had different goals and needed different things. So it was almost as if there were also 4,627 Aikos, one for each husband--though in truth, the basic variations came down to only 60, with small reminders for daily routine differences. Men weren't that complicated. She loved them, she truly did, and they all loved her. So when she left them, without warning and without explanation, they all decided that something bad had happened to her and they set out to find their wife.

Inspiration: "Man in Japan Weds Video Game Wife" - http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/24/footage-from-the-fir.html
Story Potential: High. Very high.
Notes: I don't know where the rest of the story goes, or even if she will leave them or if something else will happen, but I love this setup. Will definitely write this one (eventually).