Unacceptable, Part 12
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“‘I’m not trying to be difficult, but this is unacceptable?’” boomed the Chief. As soon as Colin was called in, we were all looking sideways toward the Chief’s office, but as soon as he said that, it was all we could do to not press our faces against his office windows.
Colin and the Chief never really got along. That’s probably because the Chief doesn’t have to get along with anyone; he’s the Chief. And because Colin is kind of a jackass to everyone; he’s kind of a jackass.
Hey! Colin appears in that excerpt! That means the point-of-view character changed! If I were you, I'd be reading the rest of this week's story right away!
If you were me, you'd be planning your next piece to SUBMIT to The Higgs Weldon!
Your mind! Facts! Explosions! Boom!
So here's something I made for Cracked.com.
It was written and narrated by someone called Cody Johnston, and he or another fine employee at Cracked added all that driving, important-sounding music. Oh, and the goofball title.
My pal Lewis Sequeira did some of the artwork, and I'm responsible for implementing pretty much everything else (more images, making it all sort of jump around on the screen, various whooshing sounds.)
If you like space-related information accompanied by drawings that move around in video presentations, you might also like The Transit, which I made last year with Lewis and some of my other friends.
Asking for a friend…
How to gmail yourself
I've noticed recently that when I send myself an email note, it shows up as a sent message but never hits my inbox. So I need to remember I was reminding myself of something. Not very bueno.
Here's the fix: Create a filter for messages from yourself and tell it that messages that match this search should never be sent to spam.
Messages to yourself weren't actually turning up in the spam folder, but the two seem to be related in some way.
Now then, if I could just figure out how to teach it that I never want to reply to myself in a conversation thread. I thought sure it used to be good at that.
Update:
Turns out, this was also capturing mail I sent to anyone and dropping it in my inbox. You might have better luck putting your own address into both the from and to fields, or if you're working from a catchall address, '*@example.com'