had a wonderful long weekend. on thurs night I went to bingo with my bookclub
fri night I went for a ride with bikefun.org
caught up with a bunch of friends in melbourne town
then yesterday I spent the day with my dad
Dear soon-to-be-former user,
We’ve got some fantastic news! Well, it’s great news for us anyway. You, on
the other hand, are fucked.
We’ve just been acquired by:
[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter
[ ] Other: _________________
As you are aware, we’ve always provided a free service, and have never even
tried offering a for-pay option. This means we’ve never had any income and
have been operating at a loss for our entire existence. Since any schoolchild
can see this is unsustainable, it should have been more-or-less obvious to you
from the get-go that we were either going to crap up the site with ads at a
few cents per-click, or that we’ve always intended to be an acquisition target.
You can do the math on that one.
Your personal data which, until just now, was critical to our core business
will be deleted:
[ ] Immediately
[ ] Within a week
[ ] Within 30 days
We are excited to continue our core mission of connecting people with
solutions at our new home. Please realize that this is so vague a statement
as to be completely meaningless. But we just made so much money that at the
moment we genuinely believe this horseshit. In reality, you will never hear
about us or anything we create ever again. We are probably going to end up,
like, implementing a new scrollbar for Google Reader or something.
Thanks so much for making our business so valuable and enticing to a much
larger company with more money than sense.
Now grab your data while you still can and get out of here,
Shiny happy Shit.ly management ninjas
Connecting people with solutions
“Shit.ly loves you!”
yay! easter is almost here. I have a huge one planned. tranny bingo in the cross tomorrow night. with the girls from my book club 🙂 full moon ride on friday night with the guys from bikefun. my bars/clubs group meetup on sat night
phew! should be a huge one!
been reading about the The Feltron Annual Report. something so facinating about the way this guy has recorded his life…
looks like our house was sold 2 weeks ago! makes you wonder if someone will ever get around to telling us one day….
just started reading “The Year of Magical Thinking” facinating study
“Didion’s husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a coma. This book is a memoir of Dunne’s death, Quintana’s illness, and Didion’s efforts to make sense of a time when nothing made sense. “She’s a pretty cool customer,” one hospital worker says of her, and, certainly, coolness was always part of the addictive appeal of Didion’s writing. The other part was the dark side of cool, the hyper-nervous awareness of the tendency of things to go bad. In 2004, Didion had her own disasters to deal with, and she did not, she feels, deal with them coolly, or even sanely. This book is about getting a grip and getting on; it’s also a tribute to an extraordinary marriage”