so i received a voice mail and an email from this guy danny wall... he was trying to get me to write about the "great internet race"
perhaps call me skeptical, but i am not all that trusting...
he wrote/called to tell me to go to wolfdatasystems.com to read about it.
when i first got to the site, i was greeted with that 5 or 6 year old video of a monkey smelling it's poop finger as well as 3 other OLD videos...
whatever...
they are asking for a $10 great internet race "entry fee" to "benefit" the "Children's Hospital"
um. which children's hospital? a little shady sounding if you ask me. no address, no info... nothing...
there are "buy it now" callout buttons all over the place...
but if there is one thing that grates my nerves when someone is selling (or attempting to pretend to collect for charity) are spelling errors.
please. maybe this is legit - i am not really saying it isn't - but i am not endorsing this "race" whatsoever....
but when asking people to donate or "buy" please for the love of GOD, use spellcheck...
straight from the site:
Participate and get at least three runners and you will receive:An "I Ran The Great Internet Race" t-shit.
[update: i contacted him and he added an r.]
*shaking my head*
yep, apparently, if you want to pay an entry fee that will "go to" the mysterious "CHildren's Hospital", you can buy a t-shit.
also - another gripe i have is the "deadline":
"The race is goes until midnight pacific time Friday November the 12th."
*shaking my head... which hurts since i have whiplash*
midnight pacific time november 12th... well... it's 11:23-ish EST here on 11.11.2004... that gives us on the east coast less than 4 hours...
i wrote mr. wall about this and got the response:
"I have made it more obvious what I was talking about. Midnight united states pacific time (GMT -8) on the 12th. That gives you almost 24 hours as of this writing."
sorry bub, but midnight - 12:00am is the beginning of a day. not the end of it.
because there is so much copy on that site and it all runs together (tired 34 year old eyes that are in need of a callout hither and tither like a good web designer would do) i didn't bother to read much further past the t-shit...
when i asked the dude the premise of the "race" because i didn't quite grasp it... i got the response:
"The premise is simply to put together a typical joke viral with something that will raise some funds for a good cause (childrens illness research[sic])."
so i realize that it's for "childrens illness research" so everyone should probably think that i am some cold-hearted bitch who won't join in the fun...
no. i would rather give the money for their "entry fee" directly to one of these "children's hospitals" than a generic one that some schlub seems to be trying to gain profits from bloggers who may fall victim to this hoax....
has anyone else been contacted by this fellow?
