Showing posts with the label fun

I’m a DMARC fan. Are you?

Based on this totally scientific, absolutely guaranteed to be accurate poll that I ran on Linkedin for the past week or so, DMARC is almost universally loved. A couple of people got a bit snarky in the comments, pointing out the “social media effect” and that this was like asking if people like air or water. Well, duh (mostly). This clearly isn’t a scientific survey. I did it for fun, to be…
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Podcast Fun: 175 Years of Email Experience (and counting)

I recently sat down with a bunch of new friends to sit for a podcast recording. The podcast, Email’s Not Dead , is “about how we communicate with each other and the broader world through modern technologies.” Joining me on this adventure? Jonathan Torres, Eric Trinidad, Thomas …

Friday Fun: Basic Computer Terms, 1976 Edition

Today's time waster is a training film from 1976, helpfully titled Basic Computer Terms . It features Harry, a frazzled businessman who is about 90 years behind on filling his back orders, and Jane, a computer expert who patiently explains that no, computers don't eat p…

Friday Fun: Planet Patrol: Play At Your Own Risk

It's so very 1982. It's electro, funk, and freestyle. It's got an 808. It's got a beat from a leftover, unused track, from prior production sessions for an Afrika Bambaataa album. It stands alone, well, as a groove that gets you on the dance floor, and somebody …

Book break: The Ultimate Spam Cookbook Expanded Edition

Way back in 2020, I shared with you " The Ultimate SPAM Cookbook " and a lovely review of it (with a few recipes) from Miriam Di Nunzio of the Chicago Sun-Times , and since then, a new version has been released! The April 2025 revision has been updated and expanded wi…

Friday Fun: Get Smooth with Sade

Greetings, email marketers and other fellow humans of planet earth! It’s Friday, and you know what that means—it’s time to ditch the stress, embrace the groove, and get smooth. And what better way to do that than by basking in the velvety glow of Sade’s The Sweetest Taboo ? Cli…

Sabertooth: Great Live Jazz in Chicago

Did you know that I've got a friend named Pat Mallinger , who, along with his friend Cameron Pfiffner, have led a fantastic  jazz group called Sabertooth since ... at least November 1992 ? And they're still playing great live jazz music now, here in Chicago, in 2025! F…

Friday fun: How Has SPAM Stayed So Popular?

You know that I blog about spam. And sometimes about SPAM. I'm a fan of one but not the other. Who wouldn't love something salty that tastes a bit like bacon, and fries up nice with eggs in a pinch? So I guess it's not much of a mystery to me; I know why SPAM remain…

Friday fun: Suggested email etiquette ... in 1985

Hot off the press! Well, not really. Courtesy of the RAND Corporation , here's a guide (from 1985) entitled Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail , authored by Norman Shapiro and Robert H. Anderson. Some bits of it haven't aged so well. They touch on the id…

Friday fun: EMF - Unbelievable

If you're of a certain age (that would be the second time this week I've used that phrase, ugh), perhaps you, too, purchased the debut album from Madchester-adjacent band EMF , called "Schubert Dip," upon its release in 1991. I bought it on cassette, in case y…

Friday Fun: Port Authority Duane Reade - SNL

Every time John Mulaney hosts SNL, the episode includes a silly skit about some sort of NYC neighborhood grubbiness that somehow turns into a Broadway Musical. I wholeheartedly approve and my Friday time waster recommendation this week is that you watch the latest episode of th…

Friday Fun: Jazz Band Covers Nirvana On The Spot

I have an eclectic taste in music, which happens to encompass both Nirvana and classic and modern jazz. So color me delighted to have stumbled across this video highlighting a wonderful connection between worlds . In this video, a jazz group does a fantastic job of covering a N…

Friday Fun: Jon Batiste - Für Elise

Today's official Spam Resource Friday Fun Frenzy commences with somebody who lives at the intersection of a whole bunch of things that I love: jazz, classical music, pop music, and New Orleans. I've long been a fan of fantastic composer and pianist Jon Batiste, ever s…

Friday Fun: Who's your favorite Herbie Hancock?

Jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock is one of those musical artists who constantly looked to recreate himself musically, significantly changing his musical style multiple times throughout his long career. While I am a huge fan, myself, that doesn't mean that I entirely…

Friday Fun: Bad Guy cover

Sometimes, I'll have a gap in the blog calendar. Sometimes, I will choose to fill that gap with a rubber chicken squeaking a cover of Bad Guy by Billie Eilish. Sometimes, I think to myself that I should be charging you for access to this fantastic content. Enjoy.

Double your DMARC fun with two reporting destinations

I was talking to a friend last week about DMARC reports. Her friend, who’s a bit of an email nerd (yay!) runs his own email domain and has DMARC reports for his own domain coming back directly to him. He does this because he’s got that nerd gene and putting those DMARC reports …

New from Hormel: Korean BBQ Spam

Yum! It was just last week I was sitting down to lunch in Chicago's Time-Out Market with a couple of my coworkers (it's my boss's favorite lunch spot), enjoying Korean fried chicken from Urbanbelly (and finding myself slightly confused by the tubular rice cakes th…