I understand the allure of free email.
I understand the allure of free email in roughly 250 times the quantity that it had been offered before.
I understand the allure of staking your claim to one of any infinite number of potentially untouched email addresses “@gmail.com”.
What I still don’t understand is everyone’s NEED to get G-Mail.
What was (and still is, with some good weeding through) a great forum to exchange thoughts, ideas and answers to blogging and blog designs, has turned out a 630+ post thread of people begging for G-mail. Nothing but potentially a thank you in return, not that anything should be EXPECTED in return, but its the principle of it (there’s principalities involved here!).
A check at e-bay listed 7500+ auctions for “gmail” (WITHOUT the hyphen, I’m sure the number is closer to 10,000 including all spellings). Someone is actually starting the bidding for “moviedirector@gmail.com” at $1,000. Dream on, Skippy. Of course, 9 people have boosted the pricetag on “nickyhilton@gmail.com” from $20 to $100.
“Don’t you people have homes?”
Fortunately, I found a great outlet for my remaining G-mail invite(s). Gmailforthetroops.com is trying to connect military men and women overseas with people that have G-mail accounts to give away. I think its a great idea, basically giving soldiers the ability to have a “floating hard drive” to save pictures and movies from friends and family. While I’m 1-for-4 on actual military people replying, and there’s no way to know where that person is located in the world that ARE in the military, but service stateside or abroad is worthy enough. Besides, when THEY get invites, they can more easily spread them to their friends and family overseas.
Man, I’ve written alot about this, and all I really wanted to do was rip on the losers that have to disguise themselves as soldiers, or otherwise beg, grovel, whine or pay for a G-mail account. Oh, and to pimp gmailforthetroops.com. It really does seem pretty solid.
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Speaking of e-bay, I think this kid is either the biggest, smartest stud in the world, or he’s about to be one rich-ass loser.
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Oh yeah, as of this minute, 1:53PM EDT, your beloved Texas Rangers are in first place in the American League West.
Oops, its 1:54, and they’re still in first place.