HO HO HO.
Hey, the doorbell just rang. What could it be?
Could it be? Could it be?
It is, it is! It’s my pledge drive iPad2! A day early, too.
Again, I’d like to thank everyone involved for said pledge drive: but there’s one person in particular that deserves special attention…
Now that the aforementioned government shutdown has been averted, it was time to endgame the pledge drive. So… it is purchased*. 32GB, 3G iPad2: it should be arriving this time next month. After that, it’s just a matter of picking up various wires and peripherals and doohickeys and whatnot. And updating the wish list
Thanks again to everybody who contributed to the pledge drive.
Moe Lane
*Just in time, too: my eldest spilled a cup of seltzer onto the netbook, which is currently drying out in a pile of uncooked rice.
…by Cynthia Yockey: this shall be my fate, at some point. Fortunately, I understand that the Apple video game situation is such that I will have some small protection against what Charlie Stross calls a class five glamour*.
Hopefully.
Moe Lane
*That’s a good series, by the way.
Tomorrow’s the last day for the iPad2 guerrilla video pledge drive, and without being mawkish about it or anything: thanks to everybody who contributed – or who will contribute, of course. It being Sunday or anything, no hard sell. Just the lolcat:
Because it always comes back to the lolcats. You CANNOT ESCAPE the lolcats.
Moe Lane
Day Three of the pledge drive for an iPad2 for on-the-fly video editing went not quite as well as Day Two; but it went better than Day One, so we’re still on track. We’re on track. Before I go further, first let me make an administrative note to folks who send hate mail. Get on your game, people. I just don’t give out valuable front page mockery-space to every dumb bunny who can string along enough words in English to create a semi-coherent whine. You have to be creatively awful. If you’re not making your mother go to your room and quietly cry in shame for raising you that way, then don’t bother getting suited up and on the courts, ‘kay? To misquote Screwtape, I wouldn’t deign to throw any of Wednesday’s haters to the hellhounds.
Sorry. I need to do this sort of outreach, from time to time.
Anyway, Day Four. Time to do a change-up: we’ve talked about hate, so let’s talk about sadness.
Continue reading Day Four, Guerrilla Video Pledge Drive ([Bleep] Just Got Real)
I did fairly well yesterday – about 20% or so of what I was hoping to acquire, actually. And, remember how I was telling you that there are “people out there who find my posts obnoxious, my style grating, and my cheerful inability to perceive their greatness intolerable“? Here, meet one of them. From the mailbag, regarding my NPR post*:
Remember: this person does not want me to have an iPad2. If I end up with an iPad2 and this person doesn’t have one, that will gnaw at his/her entrails until the end of time itself. And if I end up with an iPad2 and this person does have one, it will be as ashes in his or her mouth to know that one of them has the same Holy Object and is using it to help with electing more… Republicans. And conservatives.
Ewwwwwwww.
Moe Lane
*Must have been the ‘trash behavior’ bit. Some of these people absolutely hate having it pointed out when they’re being low-rent.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: the iPad 2 is a temptation.
It’s one that I’ve been resisting, because up until quite recently it was a tempting toy to me. Toys are nice; toys are fun; and toys are luxuries. And with the economic situation the way it is, luxuries take a backseat to building up financial reserves and not going nuts with purchases of highly expensive toys. Which was fine. But then Charlie Stross had to write this, damn his eyes: Continue reading The 2011 Guerrilla Video Pledge Drive.
I do not have a bracket; I will not have a bracket; and I will not bore the life out of you about the bracket that I do not have.
No applause, just throw money. Hey, why not? I gotta get the money together to have an iPad2 for next year’s Republican convention somehow.
