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To: folk
From: Blake Charlton
Subject: "Blake Changes his Email"
Date: Jul 11, 2005 12:04 PM
It's like this. I'm supposed to be memorizing chemical shifts for H1-NMR, which is about as much fun as watching my toenails grow. So I've reverted back to my college practice of checking email every hour on the hour in hope of distraction. Problem is none of you are emailing me.
Could it be that my old address is less than thrilling? The ungainly underscore, the absurd domain name, 'Yahoo'? Now that I think on it, the latter seems the more likely culprit. Apologies to Yahoo-types for the following apostosis, but 'yahoo' is, after all, a word derived from race of tree-dwelling, poop-throwing, stupid white people who were ruled by horses in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". To this day 'yahoo' can be used as a slang term for an uncouth honkie…uh…I mean person of European decent.
To remedy the situation, I wrote a letter to Dave Filo and Jerry Yang, founders of Yahoo, suggesting that they change their website to another race in Swift's masterpiece. Surprisingly, I have not received a reply. It seems the world will have to wait for blake@lillipution.com. Sigh.
So, what to do? It seems like all the cool kids have gmail accounts. Why is this? I did some research and found out. It seems that Google (besides being the first company since Xerox to turn its name into a verb) has inculcated itself with the credo "Do no evil." I made a brief comparison with Yahoo's credo of "We don't use pictures of professional models while endlessly pushing our online dating service on our clients" and was sold.
So henceforth I shall be electronically residing at [email changed to protect the innocent from internet spam robots]. Please, use it always and often.
The best to everyone,
-blake