Comments on: Actual email

By: joser

joser — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:45:41 +0000

I totally bought it, and tried to explain the significance to the cashier. I may have well spoke Martian to her.

You could've just said "I totally know one of the authors in here! He's an ecquaintance of mine!"

By: Arkinese

Arkinese — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:08:41 +0000

When you get an email that is in all lower case, or has no punctuation, or no paragraph breaks, you just know it is going to be interesting.

In the same way a train wreck is interesting.

I concur — but would add that it’s best when the only punctuation used is used incorrectly.

Congrats to DMZ on the story. As a short story writer, it’s good to know that the medium is still alive (despite novelists’ claims that it’s not).

By: beef

beef — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:18:20 +0000

wheeee. nothing like being the focus of a SLOG post.

By: 1000N

1000N — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:46 +0000

The reader e-mail would be really funny if it weren’t so sad. Over the weekend, many of us noticed that Hannahan’s 0 for 2 start with Seattle on Saturday was actually really productive because it took something like 13 pitches for him to go 0 for 2, thereby helping to get Millwood up to 115 pitches so that Johnson could crush the 116th. My good friend and fellow fan Dan pointed out that replacing Woodward’s crummy RH bat with Hannahan’s crummy LH bat with better defense is actually a huge upgrade. I suppose if you don’t look beyond Hannahan’s .143 BA, things look more bleak than they really.

This is one of those years when I hate the All Star break because it means no more M’s until Thursday.

By: mcfly

mcfly — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:27:08 +0000

I was on vacation in Maine, stopped in a random bookstore and picked up a copy of Asimov’s to browse, and lo and behold, there was another Zumsteg! I totally bought it, and tried to explain the significance to the cashier. I may have well spoke Martian to her.

By: Carson

Carson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:13:45 +0000

See, this is why I’m always reluctant to email you guys stuff. I figure you’ve seen so much crap, you might not give a lot of it much thought. Or, the spam filter nabbed it.

I did send you guys an email about joining in on the development of a baseball MMORPG that will be going on before too long. The makers of the football game I play/mod for are doing baseball next.

I for one am stoked for it, so find my email address in my account or something if you didn’t catch it.

By: JMHawkins

JMHawkins — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:35:45 +0000

Theyâ€™re serious. Somewhere out there is a Mariner fan who thinks, among other things, that Branyan sucks, the Putz trade was bad, and on and on and on. Our work will never be done.

Remember, last year caused a lot of heavy drinking among M’s fans. There may still be a few fans looking at the season through bottlegoggles.

the AdSense block that made us like $1 was wayyyy too spammy with the Evony ads and all so I nuked it.

So what am I supposed to do now if I want to save Queen Cleavage from the, well, whoever the bad guys are? ESPN commentators, I imagine.

Also, if we sold out to the man, could someone tell me where the check went?

Tom Hicks, so he could make payroll.

By: georgmi

georgmi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:27:01 +0000

Oh, wow. I had no idea you had sold out. I’m glad I found out though, because now I can never read this blog again.

And I want a refund on my subscription.

By: andystacy

andystacy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:54:01 +0000

Loved the link to Coding Horror. I avidly follow his blog and upon his last post, I thought to myself, “yeah, I’ve seen those Evony ads on USS Mariner!” Glad to see you’re on top of things in website management…among other things, of course! Do you follow Jeff Atwood’s blog too, or did you just happen upon his last post?

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:24:02 +0000

Oh, so youâ€™re in-shape basement dwellersâ€¦

There’s really no excuse for us basement dwellers to be out of shape anymore – not since the invention of the Bowflex…