Yes, I actually get fan mail... and from people I don't know! If you send me any kind of comment about my page I will add it to this list.
- Jeff
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:37:10 -0400 From: Patrick Doelle Subject: Your "minimalist" web page I know I haven't written to you in a long time, but I have just been so busy... you know how it is. Heh. I was doing some ego surfing (you know, running my name through a search engine) and a link to your page popped up. It seems that you kept my long-since-submitted comment on your "minimalist" web page. That was over 5 and a half years ago! Well, your page has evolved (a bit) and it's about time for an update, an in-depth review of your progress over the past five years: Your page has left the realm of minimalism and entered into a Zen-like existence. That is, presenting something exactly as it is, rather than through the filter of ideas, opinions, etc. Zen masters practice this by asking themselves a Big Question, such as "What am I?" If they ask such a question strongly and sincerely, the answer they receive is "Don't Know." This is exactly what I was left with as I revisited your page after all these years. As a result, I now carry with me with a deep feeling of awe and spiritual awakening. Zen ia also a deliberately inscrutable teaching, made even more enigmatic by its interpreters, who spend many years writing innumerable books to explain what they insist is utterly inexplicable. In the words of Lao Tzu, "they who tell do not know; they who know do not tell." In not telling me anything when I visit your site, I come to realize that you must know everything. I celebrate your enlightenment. Though, in this light, I found the addition of colour and Javascript rollovers to be disturbing. Have a nice day! I'll check back in another 5 years. Patrick Doelle Domino/Web Developer/Consultant Toronto
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:51:45 -0400 From: Andy Beaton Subject: your boring web page The fan mail is the best part, and I want to be part of it, so here goes. Your web page isn't boring, Jeff. You are. -Andy You can defend your honour with plasma guns next friday, if you wish. Andy Beaton IBM Toronto Lab DB2 UDB System Verification Test
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:58:25 -0500 From: Stuart D. Montgomery Subject: brief Jeff, I just wanted to say that I like your page. Simplicity has its advantages. -Stuart P/A Tarrytown, NY
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:10:27 -0500 From: Andrea Dale Subject: Boring web page comments Hey Jeff, You know, at least I get to see your web page consistently. Unlike you, who disappear every time I visit! *wink* And your page is not boring, in part because it's not sincerely serious about some politically advantageous topic. And yes, like many I ended up here from Debbie's pages. Have you given a name to that wacky dog on your piano yet? I suggested the nickname "Squiggles" to Debbie. Andrea
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 16:36:06 PDT From: Heather Dozier Subject: website Hello Jeff, :) I think you've done a great job with your website. :) Sometimes it's nice to go to a "boring" site. :) I enjoyed my visit. I hope you have a great day. ~Heather~
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 19:38:00 GMT From: Dr. C Scott Dixon Subject: Your Page Your home page is an embarrassment for all of human kind, a real raspberry in the face of progress. I think I have lost the will to go on... Let's see you post THAT in the fan mail section.
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 05:46:43 -0400 From: Robert Manduca Subject: Your Page Your page is really boring! Regards.
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:05:21 -0700 From: Mike Baumann Subject: boring page No no no no no.....Our page is the most boring page on the net. Frankly its embarrassing. It serves absolutely no purpose. My Husband mike is fully responsible. All I did was sit on the camel. And please.....don't call the authorities....those bears are only sleeping....really they are. Visit our home page at http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~mbaumann/
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:25:08 -0500 From: duo@golden.net Subject: How curious...a conversation between strangers, defending your pages :) Actually, -any- page that doesn't use the expression "Kewl, Dude!!!" once is very high on my list of places I'm likely to return. Neither is it afflicted with the strange CaPiTaLiZaTioN iN WeiRD PLaCeS, and for that we're all very grateful...
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:58:01 -0500 From: Guillaume Séguin Subject: A not so boring page It's funny were a query might lead you... I landed on your page looking for National Public Relation Home Page. Do you have any pointers? Thanks in advance --- Guillaume Seguin "You'd be fools to ignore the boolean anti-binary least square approach" O-
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 19:50:13 -0500 From: durno@interlog.com Subject: What Boring Page? Wow!! This is the coolest site on the web man! Your wife doesn't know what she's talking about, I bet she's one of those weird Sci Fi Filkers or something.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:00:08 -0400 From: Carolyn Anderson (National Public Relations) Subject: Your page Actually, I have to agree with Debbie - pretty boring. Except for the link to the Dilbert page :-D
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 15:29:56 -0400 From: David Blank (Redbird Studios-Writing Workshops) Subject: I agree ___________________ _-_ I agree with your wife your \__(==========/_=_/ ____.---'---`---.____ homepage is boring, your \_ \ \----._________.----/ picture is nice, though. \ \ / / `-_-' Macs are great!!! __,--`.`-'..'-_ Thanks Jay, for the neat /____ || Enterprise drawing. `--.____,-' "Ohura, open all hailing frequencies!" Dave Blank
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:28:29 -0500 From: Jim & Sue Wagner Subject: your page I wouldn't say your page is boring, rather it perhaps does not live up to it's potential. I have a right to talk, huh? I have yet to get off my duff and get anything out there- or is that here? Anyway, enjoy spring and the fact that no matter how bad/good things seem now, in 20 years they will seem far better/worse. Peace Jim Wagner
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 05:20:15 -0500 From: Indramin Darmadi Subject: comm. on your pages Well, I'll agree with your first fan mail. Your page is not bad. I've seen worse. idarmadi
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:18:13 -0500 From: Jay Kennedy Ministry of Social Services, Province of British Columbia Subject: Your Web Page Hi there! Not sure how I found your page, the link I followed to it was from Debbi Ridpath Ohi's page, and I found Debbi's page (great graphics there...) from a page called "Debbies Do the Web" or something like that... Basically, just pure surfing, dude. Anyhow, enjoy your day. PS: BC had the record high temperature in Canada yesterday, of 14 C. Have fun in Toronto! -- ___________________ _-_ The views and opinions of \__(==========/_=_/ ____.---'---`---.____ Jason J Kennedy are not even \_ \ \----._________.----/ remotely those of the Ministry \ \ / / `-_-' of Social Services or the __,--`.`-'..'-_ Provincial Gov't of BC. /____ || `--.____,-' "Ohura, open all hailing frequencies!"
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:16:07 -0400 From: Patrick Doelle Subject: Your home page I don't care what EVERYONE's saying... your page is not so bad. In fact, the esthetics of minimalism are highly underrated. You've nailed it. Paddy