Ever since People You’ll See In Hell made it’s now infamous appearance in the HBO documentary, “There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane!”, the number of visits to the site, and the number of comments made to the five articles where Diane Schuler was the topic of discussion went through the roof.
Our server has handled the extra load like a champ, but the incredible number of comments has given our WordPress software fits. Nowhere was this more apparent than in ‘Diane Schuler: An Interesting Perspective’, written by our good friend Fuzzy Wuzzy. The total number of comment reached, and then exceeded, 700 by the third day after the HBO Documentary premiered – The most comments a story has ever received on our site, outpacing it’s nearest rival by at least 200 comments.
This is a preview of Diane Schuler: An Interesting Perspective, Downloadable Version..
Time for another edition of “We Get Email” my friends, and this time I’m really quite excited. Because this time, you, the reader, will decide the final outcome, and how I will reply to her “request”.
Allow me to explain.
This afternoon I received an email from a person who calls herself Tawnya Clouston. Ms. Clouston is much different from the usual malcontent unhappy about something that was said in an article, or in the article as a whole. She is well spoken, polite, and – I swear I had to check three times to make sure I wasn’t seeing things – she never insulted the website, the author of the story or myself. That doesn’t mean she isn’t seriously misinformed about what we do here at PYSIH, among other things.
This is a preview of We Get Email, Volume 6 – or – PYSIH Goes Interactive!.
I woke up Friday morning to discover that somehow I had an administrator password for Windows now, something I don’t usually set up because, well, I’m just plain lazy. This left me unable to logon to my computer – Very strange, to say the least. I have my suspicions about how it happened, but it was such a minor glitch that it wasn’t worth spend the time investigating the cause.
I took this opportunity to upgrade my operating system from a 32 bit Windows XP setup to a 64 bit Windows 7 setup. I had my old system backed up on an external hard drive, and all my passwords backed up off site, so I lost very little. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very diligent about updating my backup, so I lost whatever stories that were emailed to me recently and haven’t been published yet, and the email addresses of our newer writers.
UPDATE: Well, The interview is online now. Could I have said “Um” any more often? Well, at least they mentioned PYSIH at the beginning, so we can say I threw myself on my sword for the good of the website.
ORIGINAL POST
The other day, as I was checking my email, I found this interesting item.
—–Original Message—–
From: Jenny Churchill [mailto:**********@*******]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:44 PM
To: admin@pysih.com
Subject: : Television Interview
This is a preview of Who Did You Say Is Doing A TV Interview?.
Well, after hours on the phone with Dell Technical Service, a lot of time wasted chasing my tail, being told my hard drive was totally corrupted and all data on it was lost, and a healthy dose of PFM (Pure Fucking Magic), I managed to salvage my hard drive without losing very much data at all. All I have to say is it’s a good thing I didn’t take the the techs word that my drive was trashed as the gospel truth, but instead took a few minutes to try out some things I picked up while troubleshooting with him on the phone before reformatting the entire thing, or I really would have lost everything.
This is a preview of Alright All You Bad Little Kittens – I’m Back.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, my PC had a major meltdown Tuesday morning. I’m in the process of replacing the damaged hard drive and hopefully recovering all the important data from my backup discs. Until then I wll be pretty scarce, and you guys will be on your own. It should only be a couple of days at most before I’m online again for good (right now I’m borrowing my daughter Megan’s laptop – How do people use these little fucking keyboards man?).
Are we a webpage you consider as a guilty pleasure or are we something you wouldn’t mind showing off to mom?
Over the years we’ve had a number of requests for PYSIH.com merchandise. Stuff like t-shirts and mugs and so on.
The problem we faced here, however, was that we can’t draw to save our lives. We have absolutely no artistic skill whatsoever. As proof, we’d like to show you this picture of a cat that we just drew:
So I was laying by the fire, warming the family jewels and thinking of everything that’s happened in the year since my last Christmas greeting to the readers of People You’ll See In Hell. I recalled with a smile the many flame wars we had this year, with some of the most pathetic trolls, friends and family members I’ve seen on PYSIH.
Who can ever forget James, the man who had the answers to how we should deal with drunk drivers who kill innocent people. His solutions, which basically added up to getting a note signed by your parents and promising that you will never, ever do that again – pinky finger to God, left a lot to be desired, but they were an endless source of amusement.
Ever since People You’ll See In Hell made it’s now infamous appearance in the HBO documentary, “There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane!”, the number of visits to the site, and the number of comments made to the five articles where Diane Schuler was the topic of discussion went through the roof.
