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Yeah, I guess that’s about right. Source: Twitter/X/Whatever it’s called today.
Today’s guest post is comes courtesy of Compliance and Deliverability Enablement expert Alison Gootee, who reminds us of the reason for the (email) season. Take it away, Alison! In the USA, at least, this week is widely considered to be a springboard to the year-end holiday season. Retailers will be hustling to meet or exceed their projected revenue goals while, conveniently, many of their customers will begin their pursuit of the perfect gifts for their family and friends (and coworkers, and mail carriers, and refuse collectors, and kids’ teachers, and maaaaybe a little something for themselves, too). The convergence of retailers’ and consumers’ goals means that inboxes will soon be more stuffed than a Thanksgiving turkey (or a Thanksgiving Ali(ver)son for that matter). If your open rates decline over the next couple of weeks, don’t panic! In addition to the increased inbox competition, plenty of people will also be busy with
Perhaps this is yet another reason why email isn’t dead just yet. Licensed from Work Chronicles.
Yum! Is it as delicious as it looks? Alas, we likely will never know, as it it is not real. It’s SMEAT, the fake prop meat product originally created for the movie Waterworld and later re-used in many, many other TV shows and movies.Thankfully, there’s a website where you can learn more about SMEAT: smeat.net. And where did I get this glorious screen capture? From this Youtube video: Adam Savage’s Tested: What’s Wrong With These Products? There’s fun to be had here, whether you’re a fan of movies, graphic design, or just spiced ham and pork products. Hopefully all of the above, like me. Please enjoy.Come to think of it, if the cans of SMEAT were originally made as props for a movie released in 1995, that means that they were probably created in 1994, and if they started out life as real cans of SPAM, and if those cans
The poop emoji has been in the news a lot lately, thanks to Elon Musk setting up an auto-response to any emails sent to Twitter’s press contact address that contains nothing but the swirling brown icon. Don’t believe me? Email press@twitter.com and see for yourself.But that’s “only the tip of a brown iceberg,” as it seems to have gotten Sarah Jeong thinking, how do the courts handle the poop emoji? How often does the poop emoji show up in filings? She’ll answer this and more over on the Verge.She also quotes law professor (and long time privacy/internet/email/spam legal expert) Eric Goldman, and it turns out that he published a whole paper on “Emojis and the Law.” I didn’t know this existed yet I am so glad it does. Eric helps us understand the very real concerns about encoding and compatibility, how intellectual property concerns around emoji art can negatively impact
UW-Green Bay professor Michelle McQuade Dewhirsta turns spam emails into into songs for voice and cello. Wisconsin Public Radio’s Jonah Beleckis explains. I don’t know how I feel about this. It is indeed creative, I’ll grant her that.
Did you know? There is a dog named Spam and he’s dressed up as a pirate for Halloween and he’s up for adoption, courtesy of the Hallie Hill Animal Sanctuary in Hollywood, South Carolina. If you live nearby, you probably should adopt this little guy immediately. Click here for the cuteness.
Lifehacker’s Claire Lower wants you to know: “Spam was made to be air fried.”She adds: “Thanks to its large amount of inherent grease, it’s one of the few foods that you can actually “fry” with nothing more than the hot, whipping winds of the air fryer.”Damn. That’s amazing. Let’s all try this ASAP! Read more here.
What? Last time, I couldn’t tell if this was a joke. This time, it sounds like it was the real deal! From National Public Radio: “Laura Spears, 55, found out she won the lottery earlier this month while digging for a missing email in her junk folder. Spears says she purchased the winning ticket seeing an ad on Facebook for the Mega Millions jackpot. Just a few days later, she stumbled on the victorious message.” Read more here.Alas, while my spam folder seems to be chock full of “Your email has won the Irish lottery!” spam, none of that seems to be legit. I’ll keep checking, though.
I can’t tell if this article from Joe Queenan for the Wall Street Journal (paywall; sorry) is a joke or not.Relevant excerpt: “Just one example [of legitimate email going to the spam folder]: In recent years, a great deal of criticism has been leveled at the Swedish Academy for its baffling awards of the Nobel Prize for Literature to writers no one has ever heard of. It turns out this is because the emails offering the Nobel keep going to the authors’ spam folders. Because the winners never reply, the prize goes to the next person on the list. But sometimes that person doesn’t get the email either. It might take 19 writers before one does.”The guy’s a satirist, so maybe that’s a clue. But, legit email getting caught up in spam is a real problem. One that I get asked about quite a bit. If anybody has any contacts…