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Jul 30

3D Door Stickers » Curbly | DIY Design Community. Nice.

Jul 29

OK, this is astoundingly weird.

Coyote Tracks: The Emperor's New Antenna -

So I’ve been thinking about “Antennagate.” First thought: stop fucking calling every scandal “-gate,” for Christ’s sake.

Next thought: so what’s the scoop here? Biggest problem in the history of all of mobile phones, or minor issue blown way out of proportion by the tech media? Neither, of…

Very clever expanding coffee table design.

at Dornob. They keep saying it can also be used as a bench… could it really be strong enough to hold people, I wonder?

Jul 28

Decked Out: Wood Patio + Above-Ground Swimming Pool « Dornob

Jul 27

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Jul 25

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Jesus Calls Peter - Joshua Harris

Jul 23

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Jul 22

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Jul 21

Bitchy email

While I was looking for something else, I came across this email I wrote to John Scalzi about two years ago. Perhaps you will enjoy it - he said he did.

Dear John,

Thank you for your recent repost on guidelines for sending you a bitchy email, as sending you a bitchy email is just what I want to do. Unfortunately, you persist in making it difficult to do so. I mean, how can I possibly bitch to you effectively when you leave so little for me to bitch about?

Let’s see… you mention creationists, and while I am a Christian, frankly the creationists piss me off, too. Indeed it was the Creatshun LOLcats competition that brought you to my attention, and I even submitted an entry. I could pretend to be annoyed that you didn’t choose my particular entry in your list of best entries, but that would just be a whine rather than a bitch., especially as at least some of the ones you picked were actually funnier.

I mean, how am I supposed to maintain the proper tone of righteous indignation when you are so frickin’reasonable all the time? How can I get off into a truly satisfying bitchy rant when you leave so little worth ranting about?

I can’t even go on about having to actually pay for your works, even though you are (for the purpose of this discussion) a for-profit business. I mean, I could go on about my entitlements, my need to be able to access your productions to entertain me, or how information wants to be free, but you’ve even made that pointless, since I was in fact able to get not one, but two of your novels online for free (on your own site and Tor’s), and I actually bought more of your books in the bookshop because I therefore knew in advance that I would enjoy them. Not to mention libraries.

What is the point of trying to stay enraged with you? You seem determined to undermine my every effort!

Now, let’s take on your blatant exploitation of your daughter, Athena, to provide fodder for your blog. Barely a week goes by when you don’t post another picture of her or mention her in some way. I mean, seriously, is this some attempt to seem like you have a life outside of blogging and writing? Because if so, it is working,damn you. And the fact that she is clearly fully aware of what you are doing and a willing participant really completely spoils any chance I might have of flying into incoherent rage over that topic. Even your wife seems to approve.

All in all, Mr Scalzi, I am incensed that there is no way that I can see in which I can write you a truly bitchyletter without sounding like a complete prick. Shame on you for placing such a censorship on my right to be a complete asshole in writing to you!.

Yours indignantly,
— Mark Whybird

p.s. here is a link picture of something to do with bacon, in a blatant attempt to get you to improve my hit count by linking there, even though I don’t own the picture in any way: http://blog.whybird.net/post/43435412/diet-coke-with-bacon-mmmm-bacon

John’s response?

“I love this letter with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.

That is all.”