Explicitly and without apology a marketing vehicle MaryMaryQuiteContrary

Wednesday Jan 19, 2005



This you're not going to believe but I swear it's true...

I got big time email inbox exitement going on over here, people and i just can't contain myself anymore.

I think I'm going to pop.

Guess who sent me email. Guess who typed the name mary.smaragdis-AT-sun-DOT-com, composed an email which included some words and an explanation point (!) and then hit the send button.

Oh, I can't even believe it, but it's true.

OK, here's a hint.

Here's another one.

I'm just beside myself.
So if you can even believe this (and frankly I'm still in denial that he actually even talked to me), he asked me to do something.

Which I am so all over.

And then, you know what i'm going to to do, people?

I am going to personally apply this creative energy of mine towards coming up with the most super spectacular idea for the JavaOne T-Shirt Hurling Contest
that this world has ever seen. Because gosh-darn-it, I have decided to make it my mission in life to figure out a way to get onstage at JavaOne 2005, and I think this T-Shirt Hurling Contest just might be my ticket.

First I gotta figure out what this means...

f=ma

mary



Having just singed myself with a "reply all" blunder, I'm not about to publish a picture of the Big Boss being compared to Ken.

But it's certainly not beneath me to point you to somebody who did....

:-)

mary

p.s. we use the term Big Boss with respect and great reverence.

p.p.s. i got so much email inbox excitement going on over here, people that if i told you about it you wouldn't believe me. let's just put it this way: i think i might be having a heart attack. please dial 911.