A conglomeration of things
Hey Jon —
Here’s a fun fact. PC World ranked the Zip Drive as both the 23rd best and 15th worst tech product of all time. It’s true! I fact checked the Wikipedia article. Knowledge is power and now you know.
Sincerely,
The 23rd most powerful person on Earth
15 Nov. 2017
Hey Matt — How are you doing, man? We’re both dads now. That’s pretty wild. I’m currently enjoying a Jim Beam from your spring 2017 advent calendar. Truly it is the gift that keeps on giving. Back in 2005-ish, the advent calendar would have supplied enough alcohol for about half an evening of drinking. Now we’re both dads. Are you good at it yet? I feel like I’m just starting to get good at it.
Mandy is in Sedona with Max and a friend, so tonight I have a fire burning in the wood stove and I’m thinking about life. I spent the day doing paperwork and it’s good to have it done and now I’m just thinking about stuff. I ate four baked potatoes for dinner because that’s about the level I’m operating at right now, culinary-wise.
We should talk on the phone soon. Come visit Arizona some time. If we lived in a smaller country, it would be impossible to live so far apart. Germany is … like, Germany is the size Delaware. I mean it’s not, but you can’t get as far apart as Seattle and Arizona in Germany. Maybe at most Seattle and Boise. At most. I don’t know. Mostly I just wanted to say wow, and hi.
—Mike.
Text on postcard:
Hey Paul.
I bought this postcard in 2012. It says it was printed in Italy. I think that says a lot about how excited people were for the 1999 Corn Palace. “How many postcards for this year’s Corn Palace design, boss?” asked the junior corn marketing assistant.
“A multi-decade supply,” came the answer. “Enough to stock postcards of the ’99 Palace well into the 2010s. And you know what? … Print them in Italy.”
And then there was a Jurassic-Park twist ending where the corn came to life, and he was like, “No expense was spared.”
—Mike.
03 April 2017
Flink! Congrats on the new job, man.
15 November 2017
Hey Flink — I made this a long time ago. Something told me that now is the time to send it. Enjoy.
11 January 2018
Hey man — No real reason for sending this. Just felt like drawing something.
10 May 2018
Hey man, good news, I finally found Bigfoot. One day he just walked right into my mailbox and got stuck. He is smaller than I was led to believe. “Don’t be an idiot, of course Bigfoots come in different sizes,” he told me. So now I know.
