Craven solicitations and moaning

Umm.… yeah, I just wrote this.

Tues­day is my 30th birth­day. I’d like to buy a Nook e-reader. I’d been set­ting money aside for it — okay, I’d been set­ting it aside for a Kin­dle — but I’ve recently been in a bad acci­dent that’s forced me to take the semes­ter off of work. So, I’ve asked fam­ily and friends if they’d be will­ing to pitch in to col­lec­tively buy the Nook as a birth­day present. I fig­ure if we can get 13 friends to pitch in 20 dol­lars each, we’re home. My buddy Kelly Ben­nett sug­gested set­ting up a Pay­pal dona­tion but­ton for this pur­pose, so that’s exactly what I did.

I don’t have a slick video pitch like Robin’s for his book, nor do I have any­thing to offer you — except more blog posts about read­ing machines. Really, since I wrote this and this, B&N should just send me an off­i­cal review copy. How­ever, it seems to be an iron law that nobody sends you any­thing for free until you are at least thirty years old. So I shall call on friends instead.

NB: This is here purely for folks who wanted to find a way to par­tic­i­pate in my birth­day present, but didn’t have a bet­ter way. Most read­ers of this blog have never met me, nor do they have any busi­ness buy­ing me a birth­day present. But, I fig­ure — what the heck. Any­thing is worth a shot. 

10 Responses

The coming age wars « Snarkmarket says:
November 2, 2009 at 9:42 am
[…] you should note: today is the last day that I can be a sin­cere advo­cate for folks under 30. After tomor­row, screw […]
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Robin Sloan says:
November 2, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Luke Sky­walker : lightsaber
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Robin Sloan says:
November 2, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Frodo : ring
(Help me out here, people)
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Saheli says:
November 2, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Tim Car­mody: Nook ::Garion:Orb
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Saheli says:
November 2, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Tim Carmody:Nook::Paul Atreides:Spice
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Tim Carmody says:
November 3, 2009 at 2:21 am
Ooh, this is fun. I want to play, too!
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Wyatt Earp : peace­maker
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Char­lie Parker : sax­o­phone
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Gan­dalf : Shad­ow­fax
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Indi­ana Jones : fedora
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Cézanne : paint knife
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Hal Jor­dan : power ring
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Dum­b­le­dore : Pensieve
* Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Tim Car­mody : iPhone
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Matt Thompson says:
November 3, 2009 at 10:06 am
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Don­nie Darko : The Phi­los­o­phy of Time Travel
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Omar Lit­tle : shot­gun
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Paul Auster (author) : Paul Auster (char­ac­ter)
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Tom Fried­man : con­torted metaphor
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Kris­ten Wiig : funny wig
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Robin Sloan says:
November 3, 2009 at 11:23 am
Ooh I like the Tom Fried­man analogy!
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Nick Kristof :: pass­port
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Mau­reen Dowd : MADNESS
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Bob Her­bert : wait, who’s Bob Herbert…?
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Tim Carmody says:
November 3, 2009 at 11:56 am
I love the Omar Lit­tle + shot­gun analogy/reference. Thank you, Matt.
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Tim Carmody says:
November 3, 2009 at 12:08 pm
All-The Wire-version:
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Lester Frea­mon :: wire­tap
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Jimmy McNulty :: Jameson’s
(alter­nate)
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Jimmy McNulty :: Beat­rice Rus­sell
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: The Greek : Spiros
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Stringer Bell : eye­glasses
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Avon Barks­dale :: cor­ners
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Bodie :: his cor­ner
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Tommy Carcetti :: ambi­tion
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Brother Mouzone :: rep­u­ta­tion
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Kima Greggs :: real police
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: The Bunk :: “Fuu­u­uck”
Tim Car­mody : Nook :: Clay Davis :: “Sheeeeiit”