Comments on: Trackation of Deliveration http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/ falling indelibly into the past Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:18:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: e. fiction http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-576 e. fiction Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:21:01 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-576 <p>Nope, even destiny can’t overcome my boneheadedness.  I received an e-mail from the editor of a journal I had submitted to with the following note: </p> <p> You provided me with an incorrect e-mail address (<script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var l=new Array(); l[0]='>';l[1]='a';l[2]='/';l[3]='<';l[4]=' 117';l[5]=' 100';l[6]=' 101';l[7]=' 46';l[8]=' 120';l[9]=' 120';l[10]=' 120';l[11]=' 120';l[12]=' 64';l[13]=' 120';l[14]=' 120';l[15]=' 120';l[16]='>';l[17]='\"';l[18]=' 117';l[19]=' 100';l[20]=' 101';l[21]=' 46';l[22]=' 120';l[23]=' 120';l[24]=' 120';l[25]=' 120';l[26]=' 64';l[27]=' 120';l[28]=' 120';l[29]=' 120';l[30]=':';l[31]='o';l[32]='t';l[33]='l';l[34]='i';l[35]='a';l[36]='m';l[37]='\"';l[38]='=';l[39]='f';l[40]='e';l[41]='r';l[42]='h';l[43]='a ';l[44]='<'; for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); else document.write(unescape(l[i])); } //]]> </script>), but I checked online with the xxxx directory and discovered that a “d” appears in the address. </p> Nope, even destiny can’t overcome my boneheadedness.  I received an e-mail from the editor of a journal I had submitted to with the following note:

You provided me with an incorrect e-mail address (), but I checked online with the xxxx directory and discovered that a “d” appears in the address.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-575 KF Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:05:00 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-575 <p>It"s destiny, E.  Destiny. </p> <p> (Incidentally, anybody know why all of a sudden Firefox wants to invoke the “find” command whenever I attempt to type an apostrophe?) </p> It”s destiny, E.  Destiny.

(Incidentally, anybody know why all of a sudden Firefox wants to invoke the “find” command whenever I attempt to type an apostrophe?)

]]> By: e. fiction http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-574 e. fiction Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:52:41 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-574 <p>:O </p> <p> I’ve also written a blog entry wondering about the weird use of “sortation” instead of “sorting.” </p> <p> Clearly, this can only mean one thing: I really am smart, and one day will become a tenured professor. </p> :O

I’ve also written a blog entry wondering about the weird use of “sortation” instead of “sorting.”

Clearly, this can only mean one thing: I really am smart, and one day will become a tenured professor.

]]> By: meg http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-573 meg Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:45:49 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-573 <p>Good—I’m glad we’ve got that sortated out. </p> Good—I’m glad we’ve got that sortated out.

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-572 KF Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:29:51 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-572 <p>Mostly, I was poking back.  I didn’t think you were really giving me shit, any more than I was giving you shit last weekend about your faux Latin.  Which is to say, shit-giving in an ongoing spirit of camaraderie with poking. </p> <p> That said, yes, I think Bergen-Belzen officially suggests an end to pretty much any conversation. </p> <p> :) </p> Mostly, I was poking back.  I didn’t think you were really giving me shit, any more than I was giving you shit last weekend about your faux Latin.  Which is to say, shit-giving in an ongoing spirit of camaraderie with poking.

That said, yes, I think Bergen-Belzen officially suggests an end to pretty much any conversation.

:)

]]> By: meg http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-571 meg Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:24:00 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-571 <p>No, no, I wasn’t giving you shit—just poking you a little.  “Sortation” sounds like something that happens at Bergen-Belzen.  (Not that there haven’t been a few pairs of jeans I’ve wanted to incinerate.) </p> <p> Have I killed off that conversation yet? </p> <p> [And I love the term “destinkerator.” I’ve been using it ever since you uttered it.] </p> No, no, I wasn’t giving you shit—just poking you a little.  “Sortation” sounds like something that happens at Bergen-Belzen.  (Not that there haven’t been a few pairs of jeans I’ve wanted to incinerate.)

Have I killed off that conversation yet?

[And I love the term “destinkerator.” I’ve been using it ever since you uttered it.]

]]> By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-570 KF Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:08:11 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-570 <p>Oh, come on.  You know I’m all about the inventive use of vocabulisms, but I don’t appreciate them quite so much in locations and organizations that are supposed to be focused on efficiency.  If I were marketing odor-preventing antibacterial insoles, I’d probably not go with the destinkerator line. </p> <p> I will continue to hold that there’s something weird about a “sortation center,” something that connects it to the kinds of anonymous processes like decontamination that have to be done but that you probably don’t want to know too much about.  The kinds of things that it’s best to speak about in the passive voice.  “Sorting,” on the other hand, implies work, which implies people doing that work.  Just ask Oedipa. </p> Oh, come on.  You know I’m all about the inventive use of vocabulisms, but I don’t appreciate them quite so much in locations and organizations that are supposed to be focused on efficiency.  If I were marketing odor-preventing antibacterial insoles, I’d probably not go with the destinkerator line.

I will continue to hold that there’s something weird about a “sortation center,” something that connects it to the kinds of anonymous processes like decontamination that have to be done but that you probably don’t want to know too much about.  The kinds of things that it’s best to speak about in the passive voice.  “Sorting,” on the other hand, implies work, which implies people doing that work.  Just ask Oedipa.

]]> By: meg http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/trackation-of-deliveration/#comment-569 meg Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:58:58 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=297#comment-569 <p>And all this from the person who described a pair of shoes as having special built-in “destinkerators”! </p> And all this from the person who described a pair of shoes as having special built-in “destinkerators”!

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