I ignore most kickstarter projects. The whole "buyer beware" thing.
It does sadden me a bit to see Jeremy Soule being part of the non-fulfillment problem.
Had the thought that app.net will soon be a wasteland of spammers and a few bots.
I'm sure with a little perl and a few stiff drinks, fortunebot could be made to "retweet" selected spam and reply to many with, "How exciting! Tell me more!"
It'd be amusing.
@matigo You have to admit, a new generation of Russian brides and Nigerian princes using Markdown would be quite a feather in your proverb cap.
// @sumudu @larand
@matigo I beg to differ. Here, the spam could have footnotes.
// @sumudu @larand
@matigo A whole site filled with viagra spam in blog post format would definitely set you apart from the others. Or am I misunderstanding this feature?
// @sumudu @larand
@jmreekes This is stuff eight year old boys routinely do. Perhaps these phone/cable companies could find a way to legally employ them. It would make my life much simpler.
@jmreekes I've had them say, "The office said I can give them a static IP but it can't be 192.168.0.1". My choices in response are..
"That's because it is in a private class C address range reserved for LANs." and go through a quickie "This is a LAN. This is a WAN. lecture.
"Do you have someone in your office with a layman''s understanding of networking that I could talk to?"
@indigo My Yahoo mail account was there for Russian brides and Nigerian princes mostly. Whatever will they do if I cancel that account?
// @nitinkhanna
Dealing with mountains of stupidity between calls from home. Uncle is dying. Lung failure. Patience gone.