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As the manuscript-delivery deadline approaches for our Damn Interesting book, we must take drastic action to avoid being sucked into a temporal vortex of magnificent and frightful proportions. Consequently, we hope you won’t mind a handful of re-runs while we enter phase three of the book-writing process: Irrational Bargaining.
We’ll try to keep you abreast of our progress as we segue into Guilt, absquatulate into Anger, and deviate into Depression. We anticipate arriving at the final phase— Acceptance— vibrating with caffeine and emotional compression.
On an unrelated note, our site’s new-and-improved platform is nearing completion, and in about 8 weeks we hope to begin private Beta testing. We’ll need people to help us do some load testing (lots of people at the same time) as well as compatibility testing (making sure the new site works everywhere, including weird mobile browsers and stuff). If you are willing to help us test when that time comes, please follow this link.
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Well I guess this counts as well.
Ah ha!! Second!
Awesome! Looking forward to testing the new site.
“Wierd” is not a word – assuming you meant “weird” as opposed to “wired,” which doesn’t make as much sense, given the context. I before E, blah blah blah, unless the word is just weird. You can definitely count me in for your Beta testing, and I anxiously await the dead tree edition of DI arriving in my mailbox. My refrigerator magnet is so lonely …
By the way, I don’t know if this is something you can fix, but all of the apostrophes in the confirmation message have “'” in place of the apostrophe.
You know, I’ll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him… . the things he’d say to me….”What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don’t you get out of there and give someone else a chance?”
And as long as noone else is chiming in, thanks for introducing me to the word “absquatulate.” What an utterly ridiculous word. But how appropriate for what I see every day around here, when security comes around.
I don’t mind the older articles because I have not yet read them all. However it would be great if there was an easier way to access the older articles besides clicking the ‘Previous’ button a hundred and three times. Spanks!
WOOT for top ten!
I guess the new platform will be a DamnSite better.
Can’t wait for new articles but thoroughly enjoy the older ones! Good luck with publishing the book. As popular as this site is I can’t imagine any publisher giving you a hard time about getting the book out quickly.
Wait… we wrote a book?
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…”Damn Deadlines”…is a whole site better than Dead Damnlines.! Keep on Damning!
Congratulations.
Once the book is released, your fame will spread throught the far off lands. Childeren will cry to their parents for a laptop so they may see and read the wonders of Damn Interesting. In the quite jungle (please feel free to pick a random African location), the darkness of night is splintered by a small glowing light behind the scrubbery. The tiny threads of light ripple around each leaf, a small foriegn humm of the laptop fan can be heard apart from the jungles chorus. Suddendly, a humans voice from the glowing, -click- apa wustaka tamini so-click- (translation of the young mans statement, “wow, that was Damn Interesting!!!”) The light fades, little footfalls can be heard leading back to a village, all but forgotten by the corporate world, in the distance clicks and laughter resound from the small glow by the creek, the firelights of his home and hearth.
It sure is taking long enough (in terms of reruns). Count me out on the test- I probably won’t live that long. Say, “Two Cents for Girth”, what is a “quite jungle” where you are? We have quite a one here in Miss Sippi; going on 80% in the state capitol.
Oldcoot #15
Argueably, the jungle is not a quite place, especially at night.
However, I was told in an ancient text, which was actually passed down by song, that there is a quite jungle, the location was not revealed to me.
The text reads as follows: “In the jungle, the quite jungle, the Lion sleeps tonight…” accompanied by native tongue chanting in the background “ah we mo wha-a we mo wha”. Also mentioned within this text is a village, more precisely a peaceful village, proving the corpororate world has forgotten of its existance. However, I did embellish the texts, I added a creek, sorry…
The song is still heard today as the elders periodically gather to shake booty and laugh, some radio stations have also specialized in the playing of arcane texts which were put to song.
I hope this helps :)
Wow, that is pretty damn interesting!
JT
I signed on for this as I can do whatever I can to test (used to do it as one of my duties in the gaming ind early in the decade.) I can test this using various Firefox setups and also the Wii Opera browser too so I hope that helps.
Here, here! I had to look it up on-line at http://dictionary.oed.com… and for others’ sake:
“To make off, decamp.
1837-40 HALIBURTON Clockmaker (1862) 363 Absquotilate it in style, you old skunk,..and show the gentlemen what you can do. 1858 DOW Serm. I. 309 in Bartlett Dict. Amer., Hope’s brightest visions absquatulate. 1861 J. LAMONT Seahorses xi. 179 He [an old bull-walrus] heard us, and lazily awaking, raised his head and prepared to absquatulate.”
yea for random Young Frankenstein references! Also, as a first time poster I should probably say something complimentary about the site, it’s content &/or it’s host/creator.
Ummm, maybe next time.
Can’t wait to see the new site! And I would be happy to beta-test the new site on my iPhone 3G.
pssst…Two Cents from Girth…”quite” exists, but you’re looking for “quiet”…hope this, too, helps… :-)
Am anxious to view the new site and, probably, get the book (which I suppose is composed of the very articles we have been viewing for the past little while). I doubt I will be of much use in the Beta testing, since I am hardly apt to download from any weird devices. I avoid weird devices. I like my life ‘quiet’ and am not ‘quite’ up to reading DamnInteresting things in/from/via weirdnesses of any sort. That is why I like the idea of a book. Even if I have already seen the stuff on the web, it will seem more mine in an old-fashioned media.
Again, my poor spelling is legendary…sorry.
Beta testing is the least I can do given the countless hours of wonderment this site has brought me. Count me in!
And add another Damn Better Tester to your list guys.
@Girth: That was quietly lyrical, my friend. A lovely flight. But if our young African hax0r is anything like me, the translation of the quote is more like “Why has my screen lost its resolution? Where’s all that light coming from? What’s that hanging in the sky over there?”
i love math!!! if i were you i’ll stand out for math!!!
it doesn’t mean that your nerd if you love math because for me its just my favorite past time…
surfing the net for unsolved problems and try to answer it.
but you know i haven’t answered even 1 problem yet but it is still ok .. it’s fun
My gripe:
No matter where you go online today to comment on an article, why is it you find idiots having conversations in an area meant for comments? I don’t get it! Who gives a damn who is “First!” or “Last!” for that matter? comment on the article, you morons!
My comment:
This poor little bastard probably grew up to be an animal torturer, and then a serial killer. I did get quite a chuckle out of the read, however.