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Posted on 07.03.09 by Widge @ 1:34 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  The Needcoffee.com Reader Survey closes at midnight tonight. And Hellpuppy Kora just heard a vicious rumor that you haven't taken it yet. So she instructed us, her human handlers, to use her powers of cuteness to instruct you to take the survey. Because otherwise, the puppy will be sad. And would you make a puppy sad? What sort of a heartless bastard are you? Yes, it's true...she does want to nom your soul into slobbery bits, but that's no reason to make her make the sad face, is it? I knew you'd understand. You can find the survey here. I thank you. And Kora thanks you. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 06.28.09 by Widge @ 4:30 am
Comments on this: 4 so far. Add your own.  Don't make me use this. (I mean the inflatable moose head behind me, of course.) No, really, I'm serious. As serious as I have ever been and the doctor says I'll get over it and be back to normal eventually. I need your brain. I need to know what's going on in that mind of yours re: Needcoffee. Because I'm about to start doing some serious cogitations about the future of the site, and it's no good unless I get your input. It's a short survey. It'll take maybe 2 or 3 minutes. (There aren't any trick questions.) And I would greatly appreciate it, if for no other reason than staging that photo was a pain because that chainsaw was not light. Thanks in advance for your help, gazpachos. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 03.20.09 by Widge @ 8:59 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  We tend to think of The Unique Geek guys as The Justice Society to our Weekend Justice League--not because they're older than we are (certainly not on a maturity level) and not because Serv wears that shiny salad bowl with the wings on it almost all the time--but because they were doing that whole group podcast thing first. Anyway, closing tabs here: one of their recent episodes was an interview of me by Ron. I guess everybody important they had already interviewed. And ScottC was there to...I don't know, referee? Regardless, "thrill" to me meandering my way through the simplest of questions (about Red Nose, Needcoffee, entertainment and I even sneak a book plug or two in) in their podcast interview here, if you so desire. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 03.15.09 by Widge @ 9:59 pm
Comments on this: 11 so far. Add your own.  So, yes, it's true: at Hour 18 of Red Nose Net's marathon 24-hour broadcast, I cratered. We started at noon EST and I made it to 6am the next morning before my body just literally rose up in rebellion and overthrew me. For those who are interested into just what the hell happened, here are the Facts in the Case of M. Walls: we were talking to Mark Evanier and I had started to feel rather unwell. Not an allergic reaction to Mark, you understand, but just a feeling of "Ugh, I need to take a break and splash some cold water on my face" and also "And maybe close my head in a door a few times." You know the feeling. Anyway, I took a pee break aftewards (which, as the evening progressed, had become a Musical Event thanks to Joe Covenant), went and assumed my place on the throne (where I am master of all I survey) and realized I was seriously unwell. Categorized as: Admin
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Posted on 02.16.09 by Widge @ 1:19 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Okay, I know I had said the poll would be up for a week, but the results were so overwhelming, I've gone ahead with the 89% of you who wanted the contests moved so we could try and get more of them up. So here's how it works. The contests no longer appear here on the front page. They do, however, appear in the Recent Posts thing on the right hand side of the front page. They also have their own feed--they don't appear in the site feed any longer--so that you contest junkies and you content junkies can each have your own place to play. And if you want both--and if you do, man, we love you lots--then you can subscribe to both. Here's the main site feed (now without contests) and the contest feed (for just contests, natch). I've made the contest feed be just excerpt-only, since 99% of the time, the submission form doesn't work through a feed. That way you can see very quickly what's what and decide what to enter. And that puts those pesky forms away from the main feed, where they were a bit cluttery. I like having the full post in the regular feed because I find I'm more likely to read a post if it's right there and I don't have to click through. We've all gotten so damn lazy (and pressed for time), haven't we? Categorized as: Admin
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