Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Almost Famous

A couple months ago, I read an interesting article in Wired. The author’s email address was at the end of the article and I did what I usually never do; I wrote him a little note, telling him that I enjoyed his article. We enchanged a couple more emails and we both expressed our opinions on stem cell research. Someone at Wired emailed me a week or so later and asked if they could use a part of our correspondence as a Letter to the Editor. I said, “Why not?” and promptly forgot about it. And then my copy of Wired came today.

Hey look, I’m in a magazine. And they even kept my trademark rhetorical device: “trademark a word or phrase that doesn’t really need to be trademarked.” I haven’t seen my name in print in a magazine in, like ever.

And yes, having my little blurb in the same issue as the Hero Hiro (Masi Oka) is a small bit of Nerd Nirvana™.

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

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