"NOT Twitterer's Digest #2"

I am getting farther and farther behind on completing ‘things’, and a significant number of these ‘things’ are visibly partially-complete, yet based on current observations, these ‘things’ are consistently falling into the dreaded 80/20 category (the last 20% of the job taking 80% of the time/effort). It is a frustrating state to be in (like Ohio), but I try to keep a positive attitude like the Victorian-era slacker in this Wondermark comic by David Malki!(exclamation point his).

I have chosen but not contacted the winner of my Bush Squash Caption Contest, which considering I only got two entries, just doesn’t feel like a top priority. And since the winner (whose winning caption was the Punniest) is Thomas Stewart (if that is your real name, Mister Tank Engine) of Somewhere In The UK, who will receive a gift credit-or-whatever to Amazon for something between $5 and £5 (maybe €5) as soon as I figure out the relationship of Amazon.com to Amazon.co.uk… If the dollar’s value is rising, he shouldn’t mind the delay.

I haven’t even gotten together a new Digest of my recent Twitterings to fill space and entertain my seven-to-eight non-Twitterized readers (who can still see it all at http://www.twitter.com/wendelldotme). But I did get to thinking about my decision to call it “Twittly Digest” from my original intent to do it Weekly-or-more-often (as opposed to a newsletter I wrote years ago called “Wendell’s Weakly” because it was Weekly-or-LESS-often). Since the word “Digest” is so solidly associated with the old Reader’s Digest magazine (at least among people my age, you dang whippersnappers), I decided it would be better titled “Twitterer’s Digest”, giving me the inspiration to do another one of my ‘parodic logos’.

Did you KNOW that Reader’s Digest has recently changed its logo? Is nothing sacred? It even uses one of those frighteningly sanserif/roundedcorner/web2.0 fonts. Fortunately, there are still good samples of RD’s traditional logo floating around the web.

There. That looks better. I had to include its ‘pegasus’ symbol, but in a probably inadequate effort to avoid full trademark violation, I gave it a little unicorn horn.

Okay, back to work. Seriously. No, I really mean it this time. Well, first a short nap.