December 2010
Step 1: Go to the website of the Mozilla Foundation (a non-profit organization that plays the leading role in supporting and organizing open-source software projects such as the web browser Firefox and the mail client Thunderbird), find their donation page for the Drumbeat projects:
https://donate.mozilla.org/page/contribute/openwebfund?WT.ac=adopt_h
Step 2: Select the donation option $25.00 - Dino plush toy please!, enter your credit card and address data, and press the submit button — as it is certainly a good idea to donate something right before Christmas.
Step 3: Wait for your present (presumably a dino plush toy, cf. step 2).
January 2011
Step 4: Wait.
Step 5: Exactly one month after your donation, receive an e-mail telling you that the production of your present is being postponed and that shipping will start later that month.
Step 6: Wait patiently.
February 2011
Step 7: As it is already the middle of the next month now, stop waiting patiently and write an e-mail in reply to the above-mentioned e-mail (see step 5) asking very politely what
Step 8: Receive an auto-responder reply telling you that the responsible person is on vacation.
Step 9: Receive an actual reply by said person who apologizes and tells you that the shipping will begin the same week.
Step 10: Wait.
Step 11: Get delivered a parcel which is shipped from the UK by Einschreiben (a concept similar to certified mail or registered mail, according to Wikipedia). Of course, you are not at home then.
Step 12: Finally receive the package.
Step 13: Unwrap it.
Step 14: Be happy.
Step 15: Start wondering what
Step 16: Write a blog entry about it.
Simon still has enough time to write amusing blog entries. Thank goodness! ;-)
AntwortenLöschenI think he needs and deserves a name now that he is a famous Dino plush toy. Any suggestions?
Thanks for the comment!
AntwortenLöschenHmm, I would simply call it "Mozilla", or do you think this is not the name of the individuum but the name of the species?
By the way, I assume you wanted to say "now that he has a famous Dino" rather than "now that he is a famous Dino" — because, after all, I am still human ;-)
Simon is a reptile ;-) - No I think you've got me wrong. I meant "now that he is a famous Dino": he → the Dino without an individual name. Maybe I should have used "it" rather than "he"...
AntwortenLöschen"Mozilla" is ok but not very fancy. However, I also have no better idea.
Oh, I see what you mean. I really got you wrong there. Hmm, but how do you know the dino is a "he" and not a "she"? ;-)
AntwortenLöschenOk ok, I abandon the field. I'm curious about what you'll write next... If you run out of ideas we should plan our next trip ;-)
AntwortenLöschenLet's just call it "Red Thing which is fluffy and cute" *höhö*
AntwortenLöschenAlex, I think that would be a straightforward solution!
AntwortenLöschenAwww! That's so nice! :)
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