Sundries
K7.net has gone the opposite way of compuserve. Back in the day, compuserve would assign bizzare strings of characters to serve as email addresses, now you can choose your own. And when K7 launched, we could choose our own phone number, within reason (Geek Fu’s voice mail is 206-202-1MUR, for example). So I wanted to give I Should Be Writing its own voice mail, but was disappointed to realize they’re now simply assigning the numbers.
And it has zeroes, so not much creativity there (although my phone number in college was WAY 0 H0G and I just had to tell my friends to use zero as the “o” in hog). But without further ado, ISBW voice mail line is: 206-339-9003
It’s free when you call from work.
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And in the realm of challenges, was chatting with Steve Eley from Escape Pod last night and we were talking about if there was any demand for skiffy porn, and I said I would totally write superhero porn and he said he would totally read it. Which inspired me, so last night I started a story about the hero Golden Fox and the villain The Crotch and Dan, the citizen who is caught in the entire mess.
Someone help me. I’m losing my mind.
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Lastly, we’re doing the Great Rejection Challenge of 2006 on the forums, all you need to do is keep your signature updated with your rejections of this year. Check it out.




Alex Wilson | Feb 22, 2006 | Reply
Heh. At my college all student numbers started with 4. One year mine was 4666. Tried to come up with a word that worked to replace the (then) number of the beast, and the best I could come up with was GOON.
Alex.
Mur Lafferty | Feb 22, 2006 | Reply
Well, it could be DEW W00D - which doesn’t make much sense and I’d have to make sure to tell everyone that they’re zeroes instead of the letter o… sigh…
Phil Rossi | Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
There’s a link where you can pick a “vanity number” or at least there was last week.
Hmm…
Mur Lafferty | Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
Ooo- see, I missed that tiny link…
Thanks! New voice mail: 206-312-ISBW