June 1, 2010
what your email address says about your computer skills
Spot on. (hat tip to luke)
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- Sheila Ryan: Nice selection from Robin Gibb’s heyday as lead singer from Bill Crandall in Rolling Stone.
- Casey Cichowicz: And health, wealth, and happiness to those that eat them.
- Sheila Ryan: Eggs.
- Erica: Perhaps we can pick up John Waters.
- Josh Weichhand: Ugh… Yes, to all of the above. Miss you guys. Miss the time I was able to spend here. I miss...
- Sheila Ryan: In the back of my Honda Element, the moveable roadside attraction.
- Sheila Ryan: You are very good. Pray continue in this vein.
- Cooper: You are both very kind. Thank you.
- Erica Braverman: Where’s the world’s largest fork and stack of bacon?
- Casey Cichowicz: Also, I think the new Here We Go Magic album is quite good.
- Sheila Ryan: Also, it is a wonderful story, and I really want to believe it was not a contrived stunt. Damn. I want...
- Joel Bernstein: It was mostly for you.
- Sheila Ryan: Well, you just know I love that, Joel.
- Michael Grant Smith: Cooper’s entire collection of short-short stories in JMWW is a lesson of how to write...
- Sheila Ryan: It’s all in the attitude you take toward non-anecdotes — such as my not having seen the...
And I thought I was a snob.
My dirty little secret is that I judge people intelligence by there email address. I give them an opportunity to prove me wrong, but it’s an uphill battle.
“- usually types in all capslock.” This is what causes me to apologize for having worked there.
Andrew. Andrew. Are you back in St. Louis now? So I can drive on down and teach you the Madison?
I love you, son, but you’re a piece of work.
I could introduce you to people who still use their old @yahoo.com addresses . . . well — people who are not only sophisticated and accomplished and smart as whips but a long ways from lacking ‘computer skills’.
I know. I know. It holds true for many, if not most. And I realize you’re saying the uphill battle is yours. I just want to smack your ass up the hill, is all.
You haven’t been my whipping boy for a good long while.
Your friend, __________@gmail.com. (Just shy of the 33rd degree.)
actually, I’d notch @yahoo above @hotmail for just that reason.
I agree.
I have met the enemy and he is me.
For what it’s worth, I have almost as many email addresses as I do personalities.
I have almost as many personalities as I do email addresses.
I use the yahoo account Danny set up for the two of us, fifteen years ago. I have long suspected its coolness fell into decrepitude long ago. (If, indeed, in the flash of the interweb’s light-speed shift to warp, coolness might have been generated by yahoo for one fleeting moment. Still, it gasps and in its heaves, I am found.)
I have a gmail account I’ve never really used. Never told anyone I had the different address. I get no mail there. I know gmail is cooler, or, at least, suspected it to be so. Until now. Now, I see it is so. (At least I know how to reboot the fucking router.)
I am a creature of habits. There are some I ought break. In the divine spirit of shouldness.
“My dirty little secret is that I judge people(s) intelligence by the use of ‘there’ e-mail address…” – Andrew 6-1-10
And that’s how we fix it!
Funny and true for many people I know. What about people that own a domain, but still use @yahoo… That just kills me.
@aol: Never touched it.
@hotmail: Dumped because no POP3/IMAP access.
@yahoo: Dump on principal. Gave up names of users in China.
@juno: Dial-up? Imaging using the web today on dial-up. Ouch.
I have a yahoo email address dating back to the days when yahoo was a new concept (before lots of you whippersnappers even owned a computer). I continue to use it because I do most of my shopping and bill paying online and have so many accounts registered with it that it’s not worth going to the trouble of changing it. It’s not even worth going to the trouble of re-directing it to another account.
So fuck all y’all.