Let's "O'Reilly" those guys at "Slashdot."

Related link: http://www.costik.com/weblog/2005_03_01_blogchive.html#111069190589189590

Ever notice how many words that were once nouns are now verbs?

It started with "Party." "I went to a party" turned into "I partied."

Same with many other words:

"Lunch"
"Network"
"Blog"
"Slashdot"

I call the process of turning a noun into a verb "verbing." Let it be known that I was the person who first verbed "verb."

I got both blogged and slashdotted this week.

I stumbled across a snippet of Greg Costikyan's talk from the 2005 GDC and I couldn't believe how in sync this guy was with what I was writing in my song "Viva La Resolution." Check out his talk, it's good.

Costikyan's GDC rant

I told Greg last week that I liked this article (to which I am sending y'all). I sent him to my blog of Viva La Resolution

My Blog about Viva La Resolution

He said he liked my song, and he blogged it on his blog. Costikyan's Blog
so now we're Blog Buddies, our fates are intertwined, and bla bla bla, which was fine with me.

But then a guy named "Zonk" Slashdotted Greg's blogging of my blogging of my song. I know you guys will giggle, but I didn't know what "slashdotting" was. I just got a fairly excited call from my wonderful friend Mark at Xbox saying, essentially "There's this thing called The Slashdot Syndrome. You can expect to see an increase in hits." Actually, my friend Bridgit had already emailed me about the Slashdot article, and had even sent me a link to a person who would have been willing to help me try to avoid any bandwidth overload problems. But by the time I read her messages, it was too late, and email communication from my servers was useless.

Tyson, my tech guy, got a call from us in the middle of the night. "What's wrong?" asked his girlfriend as Tyson put his keys in his pocket and jogged towards the door.

"Fat Man got Slashdotted," came the grim reply.

My servers broke because that's what happens when you get slashdotted. You get a million hits, and your hub's plug falls out of its socket and Roadrunner experiences a power outage in your area, which all did happen.

It's kind of too bad because very few people who responded to the article on Slashdot ever actually heard the song about which the article was written. Some very kind folks, including Zonk and Greg Costikyan and one Mitch Zamara, helped me set up a mirror site to handle the traffic, but by then it was kind of late in the game and most folks had drawn their conclusions and judged my song and my story by the one-paragraph description that had actually made it to Slashdot.

To show my genuine grattitude and my humorously exaggerated annoyance with the way things turned out, I am going to salute Zonk by executing an Evil Plan...with your help.

I'm going to blog Zonk's slashdotting of the blog of the blog of the song that fat wrote, because, well, I AM A GAMER!!! AND THAT IS WHAT GAMERS DO!!!!!!

Click on this link.

The Article on Slashdot that Crashed my Computer

Let's see if we can shut down Slashdot by "O'Reillying" them!

Much Love,
FAT

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