We get letters

This week's cartoon is based on personal experience, though I'm sure we've all been there.

I've been playing several games recently and I hope to share some of those expereinces with you in the coming days, but first, I need to address some of the mail I've been getting lately.

First of all, I'm glad that you folks have found the contact me button and are using the comment form to share your thoughts with me. Some of these I just couldn't keep to myself. Here are some examples:

i want a pet now im the richest kid in the world ok now give me one thanks you

do you have some a-kicing cooking games

lourdes te amo con todo mi corazon gaston te amo

Those were the ones that made some sense. Most of the messages appear to have been made by some poor souls who are repeatedly banging their head or some other appendage on the keyboard:

comnx xxx x xx xnx nx x nx x xxbbnhbnnsnshsns sns dbdnsnjsshnsn ssnmksnsmsnssj cdnddndnd dndndhndnbchvnnckvkbfjffjufuhffufufjfjf

natalavb gs m jns j o fjcjjcj c ......,ndgteeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyffff

I would love to help relieve these individuals of the pain they are feeling, but sadly, the affliction affects their ability to put in a legible email address, so until we figure out a way to contact these folks, they will have to suffer in silence.

Well, enough about that. Keep those cards and letters coming!

Talk amongst yourselves (Open Thread)

Shortly after Christmas, some enterprising individual made a spam bot that would automatically search for email comment forms (like the one on my site) and use it to send data. Presumably, the same individual made this bot available to the hacking community and I found myself deluged with comments. A great majority of these comments were nothing but gibberish, made by folks who just like to mess with things. Many more were in a foreign language. A small amount were in English, but even those made little if any sense. I am not going to take the bait of any of these fishing expeditions. Until I come up with a means to verify the sincerity of the message and the messenger, the messages are being shunted off to a dead letter file where I can scan and delete at my leisure.

However, for those folks who truly want to get in touch with me, leave a message here and I'll respond to it here or (if you're lucky) via email.

Other topics for discussion - why do people get such pleasure out of digital vandalism of this sort?