No Peace For The Guy With A "GetSustainable" Address
Saturday, April 19, 2008 / AS
This is starting to get annoying. Two years ago, when the book came out and I set up my mini-consulting firm, my genius computer guy Dan suggested I use the e-mail address andy@getsustainable.net. I thought that was kind of cute, so I said okay.
For about a year and a half, no one except people in my circle remarked on this address.
But about three months ago, something weird started happening. I was on the phone with Expedia trying to reserve a flight for the next day when the Expedia representative on the phone asked me for my email address. I said “andy@getsustainable.net” and expected to move on. Instead, a long pause ensued, then the guy said,”That’s cool, I’m into that” and proceeded to tell me about the solar panels he had installed on his roof in 1993. For about five minutes, which I did not have, he went on and on.
Just now, I was trying to renew my subscription to MLB.com so I could listen to the Sox game up here on the third floor, when after a ten-minute wait to get an operator on the line, I got one who wanted to know all about why I had the email address, what I did, and where could she get a copy of the book? (Hey, fair is fair.) She was way into recycling and human rights and was all about sustainability and, and, and . . .
I put my foot down when she started to read from my website, and I realized that the Sox were scoring runs left and right (I could get the box score) and I was missing it. But she wouldn’t hook me up until she told me how important this was to her. Jeez . . .
Anyhow, there is something going on out there. But I’m going back to andysavitz@comcast.net
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Add a comment - For about a year and a half, no one except people in my circle remarked on this address.
But about three months ago, something weird started happening. I was on the phone with Expedia trying to reserve a flight for the next day when the Expedia representative on the phone asked me for my email address. I said “andy@getsustainable.net” and expected to move on. Instead, a long pause ensued, then the guy said,”That’s cool, I’m into that” and proceeded to tell me about the solar panels he had installed on his roof in 1993. For about five minutes, which I did not have, he went on and on.
Just now, I was trying to renew my subscription to MLB.com so I could listen to the Sox game up here on the third floor, when after a ten-minute wait to get an operator on the line, I got one who wanted to know all about why I had the email address, what I did, and where could she get a copy of the book? (Hey, fair is fair.) She was way into recycling and human rights and was all about sustainability and, and, and . . .
I put my foot down when she started to read from my website, and I realized that the Sox were scoring runs left and right (I could get the box score) and I was missing it. But she wouldn’t hook me up until she told me how important this was to her. Jeez . . .
Anyhow, there is something going on out there. But I’m going back to andysavitz@comcast.net
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thomas, on
April 23, 2008 9:10 AM
During the 1968 recording sessions for The Beatles (also referred to as the White Album), Harrison began working on a song that eventually became known as "Something." Initially based on the James Taylor song "Something In The Way She Moves," the song's first lyrics ("Something in the way she moves/Attracts me like no other lover.") were used as filler while the melody was being developed.[1] Indeed, Harrison's song is occasionally mistakenly referred to as "Something In the Way She Moves."