The Dead Friend Sends SYN/ACK

I lost a close friend early in the COVID pandemic. Good man. GREAT friend. Total geek. Today while sending out a mass email reminder, I accidentally autocompleted his address into the BCC. Imagine my surprise when I received an email from this long-dead friend with: "SYN/ACK" SYN/ACK On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 4:21 PM Robert Ballecer, SJ [redacted] wrote: Thanks for your eagerness to participate in our strategic planning group for the upcoming FY. This is a reminder that we will be doing a Zoom meeting with the entire group as well as the board on April 15th. You will receive the registration information starting next week. I look forward to speaking with you. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to make an anonymous note on any of the action items. Peace, Robert Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ

A social media post tells a darkly funny story about accidentally emailing the address of a deceased friend. The friend replies with “SYN/ACK,” a computer networking acknowledgment, making the punchline that the dead geek somehow responded. It is used as a reaction to eerie, technically clever, or unexpectedly perfectly timed messages. EN: A social media post tells a darkly funny story about accidentally emailing the address of a deceased friend. The friend replies with “SYN/ACK,” a computer networking acknowledgment, making the punchline that the dead geek somehow responded. It is used as a reaction to eerie, technically clever, or unexpectedly perfectly timed messages.

• @gentoomemes / 10418 2024-04-05