| October 23, 2001 | Yahoo! Giveth and Yahoo Taketh Away |
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Today I received a whole bunch of emails from various people complimenting my Zelda Fitzagerald site -- The Legend of Zelda (which I created back in 1997 and have been badly neglecting lately due to my short attention span and myriad other interests). I thought that was a little bit strange, so I went and looked at my referral logs -- which I also neglect (unlike many other web journalers who seem to have much more energy than me), and I discovered that Ask Yahoo! linked to my site today as an answer to someone's question about where to go online to see Zelda's art. They described my site as "an exquisite 'fansite.'" In other Yahoo! news, I think Yahoo finally scrapped its exclusionary "cool people" category -- go look, it's completely empty. Poprocks.com had been listed there since 1997, and now that Yahoo isn't deeming me cool, I feel so alone in the world. Will somone else officially endorse me so that I can feel better? In other un-cool news, my bright blue hair faded fast. I must be showering too often. I really need to cut down. Cleanliness is overrated. Especially for a girl who now has hair the color of a dirty aquarium. It's turning into a mullet too. posted by Jess Barron @ 6:23 PM 
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| October 9, 2001 | We're With the Church of Microsoft |
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I'm finally getting over the monster-flu-thing. Today was volunteer day at Microsoft, which means everyone is encouraged to take time out of their workdays to help out in the local community (Silicon Valley). Allyson and I volunteered to make food for the homeless in Palo Alto. With four co-workers, we assembled a hundred or so tuna fish sandwiches, put them into bag lunches with an apple and an Odwalla bar, and then handed them to the people. We finished fast, (probably due to our project management skills), and afterward the volunteer organizer encouraged us to socialize, but it was kind of rocky at first. "What church are you with?" one of the homeless women asked us. Ummm. We weren't really sure how to answer that. "We're with Microsoft," one of our co-workers piped up, and everyone sort of giggled nervously. It was a weird idea, thinking of Microsoft as a religious group. I kept worrying that the people resented us. I ended up talking for a few minutes with a guy named Andre, and he asked me if I had ever met Bill Gates... Labels: allyson, microsoft, siliconvalley, volunteering posted by Jess Barron @ 6:19 PM
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