Speaking of things that have been driving me bananas. This envelope arrived by post sometime in the middle of December. Of all the mail I get, little of it is addressed to THE CHOCK.
I'm instantly curious what's inside.
Huh.
A QR code. And it's big: 5" x 5" (13 cm x 13 cm). And that's all that's in the envelope.
Of course, I scan it.
And that leads to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Of course, it does.
So now the task becomes: who did this?
The official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. Never: The Autobiography 📚 OUT NOW! Follow this link to get your copy and listen to Rick’s ...
I plugged the sender's address into Google and got back an interesting result:
"Public bathroom in San Bernardino, California"
Helpful.
Street View showed someone's front yard. No bathroom in sight.
I continued searching Google and came up empty.
The envelope sat on my desk and has taunted me since then. Until last Friday night, when this toot showed up:
A case of COVID inspired this nagging mystery, and now both Seth and I have recovered.
On a whim, I went back to Google and there's more information now. It now reports "Brenden Luna Distributing" at that address.
Searching for that, and ignoring all the Brendans and Brandons, leads to a seller on Amazon. We're getting close.
The "Luna" on the address is from this seller:
https://www.sellerratings.com/amazon/usa/luna-dist
If you want your own very large Rick Roll QR code, here you go:
(The affiliate cut on that is gonna make be a bundle!)
Makes a great Christmas gift!. Especially if you drag it out a couple of months 😀
Luna Dist is trusted by hundreds of Amazon.com customers in the US. They have been selling on the Amazon.com marketplace since 2018. They sell LAD Studio, Artist Unknown, Luna Distributing, Unknown and other brands products. They offer Prime shipping for the few thousand products they have in stock.
@chockenberry Merry Christmas, Chock. Glad to have brightened your day; you’ve certainly brightened many of mine over the years.
As I tell my kids: be the mysterious phenomenon you want to see in the world. Someone out there will appreciate it.
@chockenberry well It's definitely not me 😆
I live in Calgary 🇨🇦
Possibly the best Rick Roll ever.
Which is cryptic, because that was a very large QR code that can just lead to t.co/elon
So, why did you scan it?
On what platform?
Connected to internet?
Why did you not just decode by hand? /s
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