A month and a half ago, I had the idea of asking users for a $2 PayPal donation to get me a cup of coffee. I thought it would work well, since (a) it’s not much money and (b) it’s a concrete, common item that people often buy each other.
I’m here to report that the idea has failed. I received $6 in donations. (Thanks to the 3 of who you obliged me.) But on the whole, it just hasn’t worked.
Why? I’m not sure. I thought I’d ask your opinion. Here are a couple of possible reasons:
- The picture and donation text are not prominent enough.
- The coffee idea is a bad one.
- Giving $2 seems like more hassle than it’s worth. People either give nothing or something more substantial.
- People don’t want to give money to a jamoke like me who already has ads on his website.
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I have important news to relay tonight. I got rim. I touched rim. I jumped up and touched a rim 10′ off the ground, a rim which I have no reason to believe is less than 10′ off the ground.
Who cares, right? Lots of people can touch the rim. Well, not me, until now. Not in 24 years of my life have I ever done it. I was at the playground shooting hoops by myself and tried on a whim. It was actually fairly easy.
In another important development, I marinated a piece of chicken for the first time. I then proceeded to grill it on my almost-never-used George Foreman grill, and the result was—quite tasty! If you ask me, this is a pretty big milestone, especially given my penchant for Hot Pockets.
On both counts, I think congratulations are in order.
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Dear ESPN Insider,
Thank you for breaking out on the NBA homepage like a bad rash. I love your little orange-and-white logo. 
Thank you for making an ad-free ESPN possible. Thank you for supplying content I can find nowhere else. Thank you for giving me 1/3 of a story when I click on your links, which is just enough for your excellent ESPN.com writers to draw me in.
Thank you, ESPN Insider, for improving coverage of the NBA.
Your friend,
Tom Sherman
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If you had any doubt that rel=”nofollow” is a giant failure, I encourage you to check out the Akismet spam stats. Remember, Akismet is available only for WordPress, which was one of the “charter members” of the rel=”nofollow” initiative (and therefore should have realized the greatest benefits from nofollow—if it were actually effective).
Orange = spam, blue = legit comments
Yeah, it’s done a ton of good. Thanks, Google.
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Performancing just launched a feature called “Blogrank,” which displays the top 100 blogs using Performancing Metrics. Guess who is #42? Uh, I don’t know and I don’t care!
More importantly, guess who is #43? Me, biatch! Betta recognize!
This is cool and all, but I’m definitely gonna drop off that list as Performancing Metrics gets more popular. For now, I’ll be enjoying my hypocrisy with nose held high, thankyouverymuch.
Just to keep things interesting, here’s my rank in real-time. As you read this, I’m willing to bet it’s over 43…
p.s. Most importantly, I’m beating this site.
p.p.s. The widget (real-time?) says 48 and the Web page says 43, so maybe I’m already falling.
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Do you pay attention to phone numbers? Do you memorize your friends’ phone numbers? Do you know have any idea what the numbers are?
I don’t. I used to. I used to unleash my good-for-nothing-but-numbers memory on these digits, but now I’ve become 100% dependent upon my cell phone’s address book. This is a problem; what happens if I lose the phone or drop it in the toilet? There go my phone numbers, 4-eva!
But where my phone number memorization has fallen off precipitously, my knowledge of email addresses has picked up. I’m good. I remember friends’ email addresses without a problem, and I’ve never used the address book in any email program very extensively.
Do you have the same experience?
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If you got a 404 when trying to comment or coming to my website via the RSS, my apologies. I screwed up the config in Movable Type. It’s all better now.
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