On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
@melis Fun fact! You can actually see Hairpin commenter numbers by clicking on usernames over there. The user number is hidden in your commenter page web address. I'm even fancier over there with my #174.
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
@Choire Sicha@facebook This just in! Choire wants to get rid of commenter numbers because he is now #232,115 and this is his website.
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
I love my commenter number, but somehow I might be ok with growing up and commenting without it. I'll just take a bunch of screenshots of it or something so that I can use it as a credential if I ever actually get to attend an Awl bash.
And also - adding to the chorus of Please God Not Facebook. That's all well and good for some people, but I like having jobs, and if anybody I worked with ever noticed one of my short-burst commenting sprees on any of the Awl sites, I would likely be fired almost immediately for not doing any work, and also for being a nutjob.
Also - with the potential loss of commenter numbers - could there be a thing like there was on WAY OLD gawker where you clicked on a commenter name and saw a "commenting since" date thing? Because then I'd still be able to know who I should take seriously and who is probably a robot trying to get me to sign up for a dating website.
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On My Conversation With A Wells Fargo Fraud Specialist
@che I had the same thing! They sent the NYTimes Sunday paper to my old apartment every week and then I didn't get the bill for months. Also bought a bunch of things on "Bill Me Later" at places like Stamps.com, which was hell to get straightened out.
But the actual charges that caught the person were multiple charges under $100 at Scholastic.com and at some place called onlinebidz(sic).com. I was quite impressed with my credit card company for catching it so quickly, and definitely amused that it was apparently the world's nerdiest criminal that stole my information.
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On What Books Make You Cringe To Remember?
God, so many of these went a little highbrow for me. I'm more on the level of Justin and his Tombstone novelization, and would have to say the fact that I read and probably enjoyed multiple Candace Bushnell books during college and just after is way more cringeworthy than enjoying "On The Road" at a certain age.
Although you folks that went through a Rand phase are on your own!
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On The New And Improved Thomas Jefferson, Enlightened Slave Owner
I really enjoyed this.
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On I Sold My Soul to the Department of Homeland Security
@Lockheed Ventura I know! I had put together that he'd moved somewhere nearer to beaches, but I was thinking he'd just set up permanent shop on Fire Island. Miami is not really Fire Island so much as it is FLORIDA.
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On Stories Scary
The stealing isn't condoned in Goldilocks if you read the old-school version where getting mauled by three pissed-off bears is punishment for her porridge-eating crimes.
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On "Fatal Feline Attraction": Slaves to Cats
Reading the stuff about what happens to ladies kind of makes me want to procure a parasite-ridden cat. Designer clothing and more friends? I can get used to all the cat hair.
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
@katalist OMG. You wrote the Bob and Eli letter, DIDN'T YOU?!