Melissa, you got Skyboxed on your first post! Taurus and Fondue are all jumpy excited about it out here.
Welcome, Ryan! My advice: Don't make me look up words like "assiduously."
@Rock tha Hizzee: Shirts with buttons. That's always their first mistake.
@FaceMelter: "FaceMelter has no friends." You must me doing something right. Wanna train Pogue and me on that?
@Michael Boggs: It's the laws of physics. For every player, there's an equal and opposite mass of player-haters.
@FaceMelter: What, you want a cockpunch? Perv.
The vocal track makes me wish there were something equivalent to Auto-Tune for bloggers.
Awesome. I miss being able to say "blowjob" on Valleywag. Or more accurately, getting Melissa to say it.
"I couldn't be happier."
She sounds like me. Right before the divorce and the layoff.
Truth is I like Marissa, because her part of Google is the part that does the most and works the best.
I liked her better when she was all about the cupcakes. But no, she had to get all Clay Shirky / Robert X. Cringely on us and claim to have to have predicted the future.
Next up: Marissa Mayer on how the identities of the Final Five were totally obvious to her.
I'm glad for two reasons: First, Nick has broken out of the $12-per-post world of blogging. Second, his book is a bunch of funny stuff that other people said, rather than a couple hundred pages about how Twitter is changing everything, just everything, so you need to hire Nick Douglas as a speaker and/or business consultant.
Ow my ears!
I miss you guys. But the NYT let me say "Nazi" yesterday, so I'm enjoying the gig.
New email:
"Yeah, it's a sad Friday here at Buzznet.
"Company was downsized by 8%, according to execs, who held a staff meeting this afternoon, stating that the company is actually doing increasingly well and that the layoffs were a necessary cutback resulting from the economic downturn."
@D14BLO: End-of-day syndrome. Thanks for the slap.
Owen, why is it Newsweek lets Dan Lyons type "lying sacks of shit" but on Valleywag it's "s---"? Because, you know, most people probably expected the other way around.
@anildash: What I love about you is your sincerity.
@Danilo Campos: Dammit, Embargo Breakers will continue!
@UpshawOrmberg: I got kind of sleepy in the middle of your explanation, but thanks for clarifying, James!
@michaellamb: No, I grew up in Lewiston, Maine. My parents spoke French only when they didn't want us to understand.