Seriously, How Many Times Do I Have to Email You For You To Understand I'm Not a Spammer?
- Two days ago, I received an email from a friend of mine. The email contained a forwarded SPAM email which tried to sell my friend some super Viagra or something like that. While I was still marvelling at how accurate targeted email lists had become, and while I was still conjuring up the many insults about my friend's manhood that are worthy only of good friend lest you get your teeth knocked ...
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More on the Experimental Disconnection
- Been getting a lot of comments along the lines of: why do you want to do that?? Just the general state of everything in the world. The dependency on the electronic world for everything. The realization that everything you do changes how you see and experience the world. Remembering what things were like before all this...both the bad AND the good. The reality with the economy and my ...
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Upcoming Experiment: No Electronics for One Week in December: No TV, No Computer/Internet, No Games, No Cellphones
- I am thinking of going without computers for one week: no checking or writing email, no surfing or anything for fun, or any work even. NO computers. And maybe also add no TV for one week. No computers and no TV for one week. I will have to do this during December or January as an experiment. See what happens. Perhaps the week of Christmas, maybe the first week of January. Not only find out ...
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Invisibly Yours
- You are invisible. I see this on my messenger window. I don’t feel invisible. It seems like I am there and can be seen by everyone, everyone who has me on their list. People I have known over the years. New arrivals I have discouraged. I am tired.The scent of dew-dripping flowers makes me cringe for I know that one day they will be crushed. Essence, they say. It will be bottled for posterity, ...
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Limited Addition
- “You now have unlimited storage,” says the message when you check your mail. Does everything not have a limit? I may not have to worry about deleting large files, forwards, links…they can all remain where they are. New ones will come and my space would accommodate all of these.You know something? I don’t like it. Earlier when I’d see that marker saying “You are using 60 per cent of ...
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let the emailer beware!
- My email account was hacked into last week. The first indication I had that something was amiss was the rejection of my password by the account. No matter how many times I checked to make sure that I was entering the proper letters, the message was always the same: access denied. I contacted the server to inform them of the situation -- hoping it was just a temporary snafu -- and then got ...
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How to Market Your Book in Your Email Signature
- As an author your email signature is a fantastic place to distinguish yourself and stand-out from the crowd of emails that your recipients receive. In fact, it's an excellent way to unobtrusively market your book to all your email recipients. Let's do the math about the size of this marketing opportunity ... if you send an average of 10 emails a day you've got over 300 opportunities a month to ...
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Insomnia ~ Art Fairs ~ Email
- For the past four days I’ve gotten maybe three to four hours of sleep per night. I have no idea what’s up - it just happens sometime. Tired and a bit cranky, I still wanted to go to the art fair. Today was the last day. For those not familiar with Minneapolis, there were actually three art fairs going on simultaneously this year. The biggest is the Uptown Art Fair which I avoid at all costs. ...
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Extra! Red Room Posts Your Email Automatically as a Blog
- UPDATE, MAY 14TH, 2009: Unfortunately, a bug discovered by one of our most dedicated authors reveals that comments are disabled on blog posts you email to post@redroom.com.If you choose to use this feature, please send me a quick emailand I'll enable comments on the post. This is just a temporary solution until we fix the bug. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for the heads-up, Jessica! By ...
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Finding Your Inner Compass
- We live in a noisy culture -- deliciously, horribly, overwhelmingly, fascinatingly noisy. The kind of work we do as writers and artists both arises from our lives and has to resist those circumstances, in order to happen at all. How is it possible to write poetry or fiction, to create a performance, to make a song, painting, sculpture, or collage? All day long, our email dings, our friends invite ...
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