I’m used to the Twitter Fail Whale. I can take Facebook being slow. But right now I’m dealing with every single email I send to someone with a comcast email address being returned. Mediatemple, which hosts my website and thus my email, is not the easiest company to reach so I sent them an email about this a few weeks ago. They responded that it had been fixed. And it’s true, for a blessed week or so, I was actually able to email those people with comcast addresses (which includes my mom, as well as top students Joe and Karpydym, though I’m not sure I’ve spelled Karp’s name right…I haven’t visited his “Spelling Creative Interpretations of Latin Expressions in Email Names” class in a while.) Anyway, comcast is bouncing me like crazy today, and there aren’t many emails I’d less like to receive than ones that come from “Mail Delivery System.” (Running a close second? Group emails from people I know that I did not sign up for. I know this shouldn’t really drive me crazy but at least when you somehow get added to a newsletter or group email, you can usually hit unsubscribe. But these! Missives from people you know! How can you say, “Hey, look, I’m glad you’re really into what you do but I never asked to be notified about it”? The way I handle my annoyance is that I wholly refuse to read what’s in them and then I mark them as junk mail, in the mistaken belief that my email will catch on and send them to the junk mail folder from then on, which somehow never happens.)
Anyway, in addition to this Mediatemple nonsense, now dear little hopstop.com is acting up. I call it dear and little because it is essentially solely responsible for the fact that I get anywhere. Oh, as I was typing this, I tried again and hopstop kicked into action! How I love you, hopstop! If hopstop was a person, I might want to marry it. Ohhh…what websites would you all want to marry? Besides this one, of course?
And speaking of this one, Karp (I’m just taking the easy way out on his name now) pointed out that we’re about to be getting into a legal battle with what looks like a a government act.
Who among us is a lawyer? Because this is looking like it might be some fight.
I am very sorry to hear about these computer issues
I hope that they get cleared up soon
I wonder if Alison Rosen has anything to do with this
hmmm
As for this whole ADA copywright infringement I wonder if the US Government can be “Bought”
I am now suffering Anna David Book withdrawls
I have completed “Bought” and “Party Girl”
I just cannot go back to reading books by a less talented writer
Oh one last thing, I am seeing people with Kindles out there, well as far as I can tell, no one can autograph a Kindle– HA!
Have a great night
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.-Tecumseh-Shawnee mystic and warrior
Long Quote but I thought it was pretty neat ..
our lovely principal speaking of the email problem made me realize i really get no email spam..
well,other than about ten of those Nigerian money scams a week, how the hell do those people find you?
i am very careful about my email and have no idea where these scammers could have gotten my email..
crazy stuff…
hope everyone has a safe and wonderful weekend, and if you live in my portion of the states, stay inside it is to damn hot to do anything but have a heat stroke lol
was 100 degrees by 10am ugh!
Marry? Um…how bout cohabitate for a while until I know its serious about the commitment? Probably Google search because it is infinate in its potential. You can never be bored with Google.
Right there with ya Skunk, major heat wave here as well. 103 as I write this Post. Send Ice and Cold drinks please?
And that ADA thing. Isn’t that shovel ready project that we got funding for? But wasn’t that a lot of money just for a ramp? Kickbacks? Hmmmm
Karpaydm’s sign has me wondering… are all ADA buildings handicapped accessible? I better take a stroll around campus and find out…
In the meantime, please don’t forget this is ADA Alumni Weekend! Be sure to enthusiastically greet anyone wearing one of these: http://tinyurl.com/lbtlp6
And later this afternoon our Spirit Squad will be cheering on the ADA football team: http://tinyurl.com/nkcx9h
Yes – our sports teams are nicknamed the Cougars. I’m really tempted to make a smart-ass remark, but our dear Principal would probably throw me off campus.
GO TEAM!!
I really liked that quote by Tecumseh, so thanks Skunkcontrol! It sorta reminded me of the book of Proverbs in the Bible. I think even if a person didn’t believe in God, they might enjoy reading many sections of that book. That being said, I’ve been up all night for no reason other than enjoying being awake to take in the evening and morning.
The Cougars, I love it! Do we actually have Alumni yet? I’m not sure anyone has actually graduated and at the same time, who would want to? Then you would have to leave. And while several of us wear professor hats as well, we are still part of the student body. 9-10 years of college seems about right, then graduate school!
I won’t even mention the Comcast thing I mentioned on twitter(oops, I sorta mentioned it), just know that I am going to take sucking up to a whole new level. Saving the principal didn’t get the job done(from the Bates motel and the depths of hell I might add), it’s time to be the suckiest sucker upper that ever sucked up.
Hope you’re getting the e-mail thing straightened out, that can be unbelievably annoying. Especially when the company is a pain in the ass.
And don’t you worry, if anyone dares question our use of ADA, I’ll take care of business. It’s not only my job, it can be quite fun.
Mike (who needs a lawyer when you have a cop)(also has a Comcast e-mail address. There I go mentioning it again)
#boughtandthenameadaareoursandanyonethatsaysdifferenthasaproblem
I might be inclined to marry Twitter. I’ve almost completely divorced Facebook. And MySpace is a mistress I only use occasionally. Any other sites I just prefer to be platonic friends with. I tend to be very selective like that. I’ll take quality over quantity any day.