teresawu:

You guys always ask about the random and incredibly fun opportunities I’ve experienced as a result of blogging.

This might be the most exciting just yet, just because my nerd-dom transcends all (even gluttonous vacations): At the end of this month, Serena and I will be flying out to Boston to speak at ROFLcon on a panel about race on the web. I’m honored to be on a formidable list of the people who are singlehandedly responsible for putting hilarity on the internet.

Unlike SXSWi, which consisted of a somewhat uninspired lineup of panels, when it comes to ROFLcon, I actually want to attend, well, everything. As of four days ago, there were only 75 tickets left — if you’re located in Boston, don’t miss out.

Man, I want an autographed copy of XKCD - volume 0, a picture with Ben Huh to be captioned in IMPACT BOLD OUTLINED, a Bostonian dinner with This is Why You’re Fat, and an awesome night to be recorded on TFLN. on a t-shirt.

and maybe a talk with Christian Lander about how Moleskines aren’t just “Stuff White People Like”…but he’ll probably call me a banana, whereas I’d reply, “My mom is a fob, yo.”

Posted at 12:55pm and tagged with: mmiaf, roflcon,.

Thank you for submitting My Mom is a Fob to the App Store. We’ve reviewed your application and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains objectionable content and is in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement which states:

“Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.”

Regards,

iPhone Developer Program

UMM, WHAAAAAATTTTTT.

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Posted at 10:43pm and tagged with: mmiaf, publicity, interviews,.

from our editor (*squeal*!)

Posted at 7:41am and tagged with: mmiaf, book,.

Speaking of the cover, in the next few weeks I’m going to have preliminary conversations with our design team about the cover design. I’d like to hear any thoughts you might have as well. We have fantastic designers here so I’m sure we’ll have some great ideas but I always like to pass along thoughts from the authors as well. Feel free to send me examples of similar titles whose covers you like, thoughts on illustration versus all text, etc.

a submitter, after we asked said person to fill out a consent form, as requested by our publisher. (DO PEOPLE NOT READ THE DISCLAIMER ON OUR BLOG BEFORE SUBMITTING?)

so.

frustrated.

(I spent HOURS searching the inbox for exact submissions, filling each form out individually w/name and content, and then emailing each person one-by-one…and I can’t even get a form back.)

Posted at 4:32pm and tagged with: mmiaf, frustrations,.

Oh, sweetie. Unless your publisher is going to call me up to negotiate my sales royalties for my contribution to your book…absolutely not.

“Never give anyone a free trial and take your product home. They must pay full amount first. Because if they get free trial, I know because I sell cosmetics for so many years, they will always return product.”
Dating Analogies, MMIAF

“Don’t be easy. Don’t be like a cow. Chinese people say, if a boy gets the milk for free, he has no need to buy the cow.”
Don’t Be A Cow, MMIAF

Posted at 1:33am and tagged with: mmiaf,.

…going through MMIAF entries, picking out new favs to include in the book.

Came across this one, which I found particularly inspiring:

The firm that I interviewed with decided to rescind their offer. I called my mom and she gave me a pep talk. Afterward, she sent me this text:

if one door closed try find another. still have window. still have roof. push them u will see the sky.  sky is unlimited so are u. never lose your faith. not u. ur my chinese girl. love mom.

MMIAF

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Your Linode, linode18747 (linode18747), has exceeded the bandwidth quota threshold for notification.  It has used 160.3513 GB of 200 or 80.2%.

This is always good and bad. Good because…hey!! MMIAF’s getting more hits again!! bad because…fudge, we need to pay more money for more space again????

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