Announcements

Well, Christmas is right around the corner, so I thought I would plug some YWO merchandise to anyone interested. Here are a couple items that your favorite geek, social malcontent, or funny shirt person might enjoy (please note that all shirts come in men’s and women’s and you can adjust them somewhat by color or style if you decide you want to purchase one): “You can trust me. I’m from the Internet!”Comes in light colors (men’s and women’s) and dark colors (men’s and women’s) and would go well with your favorite collection of Firefox bookmarks and Wikipedia nonsense. Plus, it’s funny! “I’m not spamming. I’m posting vital information. Just very quickly. Using only one word at a time.”Who said that spamming wasn’t a good thing? Wait…nevermind. Comes in light colors (men’s and women’s) and dark colors (men’s and women’s)! And there are many more things at the YWO Zazzle Store! Check it out and get your favorite person a nice gift!

Not too long ago I posted about Vera Nazarian’s financial troubles and how she could really use some donations. Well John Scalzi and Subterranean Press have joined forced to help out by, well, pulling a Scalzi (a term I’m coining to mean any time someone puts a story online for free, but asks for donations and ends up receiving quite a lot of them). Go ahead and check out Scalzi’s story and consider donating! Seriously. Subterranean will meet your donations up to $1,000! You’d be doing a good thing in this time of need, and we all know that more good things need to be done these days. That is all.

Since everyone else is doing this and I’m a curious person, I’m going to play copycat and see who is out there. If you read my blog and have never commented before, I ask you to comment on this post and let me know who you are and where you are coming from (a feed reader, email, bookmark, etc.). Don’t be afraid. I won’t bite. I just want to know who is out there. And if you comment regularly, well, say hello! There are quite a lot of you who are subscribed to my blog, so I’m curious who you are. Maybe mention a link to your own blog or something! Anywho!

I say holidays not because I am one of those anti-Christmas people, but because this is the season to help others if you can no matter what religion you happen to be and many different things are celebrated in this time. So it’s an attempt to reach out to all sorts of people of varying beliefs.Vera Nazarian, the publisher of Norilana Books, is in a lot of trouble. Due to a variety of circumstances she is about to lose her house due to owing too much money to the bank. The full details of her situation and how to donate can be found on the Help Vera livejournal. If you can spare a few dollars, please consider donating. Even just a dollar. And please spread the word. If we can get 12,000 people to donate one dollar, Vera will keep her house. It’s not an easy thing to do, but seriously folks, it can be done!So help if you can and thanks!