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© 2004-2008 Keith Ecklund

June 18, 2004

Dear Technical God,

What’s all the excitement about gmail accounts?  I keep reading about other people’s excitement but seem to know nothing about them.  Why is everyone so excited?  Should I be too?  All I know is that it’s some sort of google thing, which causes a real dilemma.  How can I ask google to tell me the answer when it’s something of theirs.  Wouldn’t that be like asking the dentist if you have a cavity?  Of course he’d say yes.

So, you see, without google, my faith in you is once again restored. 

So if you care even one tiny bit about a technological sinner like me, you’ll give me some sort of sign.  Something to help me see my way.  Something that will make everything clear about gmail.  Maybe something slick like flash animation, only way faster and easy to understand.  Maybe something that would look good even with a slow, dial-up service.  Could you do that for me?

Whatever you do, don’t think you need to test this renewed faith of mine by crashing my computers.  That would be just plain mean.

Faithfully yours until something better and faster comes along,

Imaginary Keith



Dear I Keith,
Would you like one?  I can send you an invite if your like.
Signed
A Friend (with a gmail account)

e on 06/19/04 at 04:38 AM

dear keith,

if i hadn’t been so stressed out by creating the heavens and the earth and all that stuff, i’d have created google on the seventh day, but i was too damn busy resting. you know how it is?

gmail is the super swanky e-mail service by google (cue the holy angel chori). it gives you 1000 MB of space and as a gmail users, i have yet to get a hunk of spam. i love it so much i’ve forwarded all the e-mail that comes from my domain to gmail.

gmail is my gift to you mortals. enjoy it.

JC on 06/19/04 at 10:35 AM

Still! What is different! No one can say! Does your computer carve your mail into a stone with gold leaf lettering? Or maybe it is all the small children strewing rose petals around your portal?

Jo on 06/19/04 at 12:37 PM

i think it’s the manservant google sends over to rub your feet as you check your e-mail that sold me.

JC on 06/20/04 at 07:52 AM

Thanks to the generosity of a kind stranger, Imaginary Keith now has his own gmail account.

I’m not sure I’ll like all of the rose petals strewn about the portal.  The squirrels already make enough of a mess with the sunflower seeds we put out.

And as far as manservants rubbing my friends feet, the idea sort of makes me ill.  It’s nothing to do with men rubbing men’s feet, but rather the stupid, satisfied look that I’m sure I’ll have to see each time he reads his email.

Keith on 06/20/04 at 08:07 AM

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