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Happy Thanksgiving.
Nov. 25th, 2004 11:03 amFrom GMail (I thought this was cute)
A Gobble approach to email.
"In 1621, a few hundred Pilgrims and Native Americans sat down to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The feast lasted three days, and included fowl, venison, fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, and plums. There was no pumpkin pie, however. There was also an alarming lack of user-friendly webmail services.
Now, 383 years later, it's once again time to celebrate what has come to be known as Thanksgiving—a time to gather with family and friends and give thanks for all that we have. We have many things to be thankful for. But mostly, we are thankful for you—our users—who remind us of why we work so hard all year and why we love what we do. That's better than all the dried fruit and clams in the world.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for making our approach to email yours.
Gobble gobble,
The Gmail Team"
In other news, I've been watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
SuperGrover was the first balloon out; and Spongebob Squarepants is the first square shaped balloon.
This site has more about the history of the parade.
NEAT! They just had the Weebles "balloonicles" - Balloons that are motorized, and "float" while resting on the ground.
Some people are also protesting today's holiday, in memorium of the plight of the American Indians. An interesting thing I found on MSN.com: "Squanto's life story would make a great movie. He grew up on the same land that the Pilgrims inhabited. Before their arrival, he befriended a British explorer named John Weymouth, who taught him English. Later, Squanto was captured and sold into slavery in Spain. With the help of a Spanish priest, Squanto reconnected with Weymouth, who helped him return to his homeland. But by the time he arrived, his village had been wiped out by the plague, which had been brought by the slave traders. Later, Squanto helped the Pilgrims when he saw them struggling in his abandoned ancestral home."
This also reminds me of something a friend of mine said, who is half Jewish and half American indian - (which, as he says, makes him the most oppressed person on the planet!) he said he should to be referred to as an "_Actual_ American", when describing his Native heritage. :)
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans; actual, or virtual.
A Gobble approach to email.
"In 1621, a few hundred Pilgrims and Native Americans sat down to celebrate a bountiful harvest. The feast lasted three days, and included fowl, venison, fish, berries, watercress, lobster, dried fruit, clams, and plums. There was no pumpkin pie, however. There was also an alarming lack of user-friendly webmail services.
Now, 383 years later, it's once again time to celebrate what has come to be known as Thanksgiving—a time to gather with family and friends and give thanks for all that we have. We have many things to be thankful for. But mostly, we are thankful for you—our users—who remind us of why we work so hard all year and why we love what we do. That's better than all the dried fruit and clams in the world.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for making our approach to email yours.
Gobble gobble,
The Gmail Team"
In other news, I've been watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
SuperGrover was the first balloon out; and Spongebob Squarepants is the first square shaped balloon.
This site has more about the history of the parade.
NEAT! They just had the Weebles "balloonicles" - Balloons that are motorized, and "float" while resting on the ground.
Some people are also protesting today's holiday, in memorium of the plight of the American Indians. An interesting thing I found on MSN.com: "Squanto's life story would make a great movie. He grew up on the same land that the Pilgrims inhabited. Before their arrival, he befriended a British explorer named John Weymouth, who taught him English. Later, Squanto was captured and sold into slavery in Spain. With the help of a Spanish priest, Squanto reconnected with Weymouth, who helped him return to his homeland. But by the time he arrived, his village had been wiped out by the plague, which had been brought by the slave traders. Later, Squanto helped the Pilgrims when he saw them struggling in his abandoned ancestral home."
This also reminds me of something a friend of mine said, who is half Jewish and half American indian - (which, as he says, makes him the most oppressed person on the planet!) he said he should to be referred to as an "_Actual_ American", when describing his Native heritage. :)
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans; actual, or virtual.
