Category: Site News

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Hi folks,

In honor of the season and its general sense of giving and kindness, I’ll be making some gifts available to you, my dedicated readers.  Anyone who sends me their mailing address (monty@posthumorous.org)  between now and 12/31/2010 will get a free Posthumorous.org bumper sticker.

I will be announcing a new riddle contest for Christmas day.  A member submitted riddle will be posted on Christmas day and the submitter will get a prize.

Beginning tomorrow (12/6/2010), I will be lowering costs by 10-20% on all items in my store until the end of the year.  Buy more crap for less!

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That’s right… I’ve done it.  I’ve designed some shirts, stickers, and mugs and am going to try to sell them to make some cash.  Will it work out?  Who knows?  But I’m going to give it a shot.  I figure that with people buying random crap on the web all the time and my ability to generate random crap so easily… maybe it’s a fit.

There’s now a link in the top navigation for merchandise.  Take a look.

There are going to be a few more items going up there later in the week (like the Riddle Champion Mug).

Everyone that I promised a shirt to previously, go to the store and then e-mail me (monty@posthumorous.org) what you want (any short or long sleeve non-organic/non-hoodie/sweatshirt).

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Many of you have asked (some repeatedly Awesome, Nagging Sister) about what sort of prize you’d win if you were the grand champion of riddles.  Well, I’ll tell you what it is.  It’s a coffe mug.  It’s no ordinary coffe mug… it’s 11oz, dishwasher safe, and can be used in the microwave.  OK, so it’s an ordinary mug.  BUT!  It’s a mug that you can use to taunt people.  That should be worth something.  Here’s a preview image of the prize (if you click it, you can see it larger).  For those of you still waiting on the T-shirts, I’ve designed 3 and will be revealing those later this week. 

Big things are coming folks.

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So it’s been a year since the site first came online… I know this because my domain expired a couple of days ago. It was as if my service provider said, “Happy Anniversary! Your Site’s Offline Because You Ignored Our Re-Bill Notices!”

The site is back online now. (Thanks Schvin for alerting me to the outage.) The site has grown quite a bit in audience size, but isn’t really where I’d hoped it my be after a year. I’m going to work on that in the coming year and see what else I can do (without a budget) to grow a larger audience. Of course, dedicated readers like yourselves can always help by linking here on your own web sites, sending e-mails to all of your friends demanding that they come here, or breaking into random people’s homes and forcing them to read the site at gun point. If you do the last one, I might ask you to become a writer for my new series called, “Blogger in Jail: Who Frooked My Cornbread?”

In the meantime, what sort of things would you folks like to see more of? Note, I don’t have the brain cells to write 4 riddles a day, but what sorts of things do you like more than others? Feel free to post comments here about general feedback, etc. I’m really curious what people think and what you all want more of (or less of).

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The likelihood of my being able to successfully monetize this website is pretty remote, so please don’t think that I’m going to be doing so by posting this survey.  Odds are that if I ever did try to make this site a commercial endeavour, people who come here regularly now would get a free pass as early adopters.

So anyway… this is just a question of curiosity on my part, not actual planning.

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So, in the spirit of the holidays and in an effort to make money for myself, I’m going to be posting links to things that I think you should buy. Every so often I’ll just post a bunch of random things. Please note that buying these things provides me with a few pennies that I can hold and pretend one day will grow up and become dollars.

Each item has my personal endorsement and recommendation. If you don’t like it, tell Amazon to give you your money back. Seriously. Let me know what they say.

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It was pointed out to me that my note about the new forums may have implied that it was some sort of exclusive, members only area.  That’s only half correct.  It is members only in the sense that you have to register to enter so I can keep out spammers, but other than that it’s open to everyone.

I would encourage regulars to visit there from time to time.  Content in the forums includes:

• Riddle clues
• Riddle discussions
• More ready.gov jokes
• Potentially less “work friendly” material

It’s quite possible that the forum idea will flop (which seems to be the direction it’s headed).  It’s an experiment in creating a community around the funny.  I thought about doing something through Facebook but don’t want to alienate people that think Facebook is the stupid.  Anyway…

Sign up today!

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This weekend I launched PostHumorous.org Chatter; a forum site for people to be able to discuss… well… whatever they want. You have to be a member to use it. Sorry, but it’s the best way to avoid spam and weirdo types. Well… more that usual. Anyway, you can get there to register by clicking on the “Chatter” link at the top of the page or you can go to www.posthumorous.org/forum/.

Enjoy!

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