Some days work can be really nice. When things are humming along smooth, there are no major fires to put out, life is good.
I answer all the incoming email from Ibis, and today we got two random letters that were real nice. It makes our day, so thank you for sending them in, ladies and gentlemen.
Here they are reprinted without permission from anyone:
First we head up to Bothell, Washington.
Esteemed dudes-
Is it true that one can no longer buy the Mojo SL in brown? How sad. Then again, I guess this makes my ride that much more special. The brown is so pretty. Lots of folks tell me how much they like the looks of my bike. The combination of matte brown, rubberized paint and soft purring carbon underneath just feels so… animal. That’s what it is. It feels like riding an animal. Especially with a coat of fine dust or a little mud spackling. It draws a crowd. Just writing about it gets me excited. I think I’ll go stroke it.
Thanks for making the best bike I’ve ever owned. (And the second best. And the third best! I guess I’m hooked.)
Your dedicated fan, Bawl Melee, Bothell, WA, USA.
Now Bawl Melee is not this person’s real name of course. I’m sure he/she wouldn’t want the world to know that he/she is going to ’stroke it’. Of course that could give us a clue as to this person’s gender. Or maybe not. So that I would protect this person’s privacy, I pasted this person’s real name into the internet anagram server, a delightful project that someone has kindly shared with we denizens of the internets. My wife recently got a bunch of neon letters that we are going to make into some industrial yard art, and with the help of the Internet Anagram Server (IAS), found that we have 4000 possible combinations of words. Hmm, maybe it’s not so helpful after all, it was easier when we used to do it the old fashion scrabble way.
One of the fun things about my job is that I’m talking to people from all over the world on a daily basis. On a typical morning, I might be talking to Brazil, Australia, South Africa, the Czech Republic, any number of the Western European countries, Poland, Russia, Scandanavia, and sometimes even Iowa (that last one not too often). Here’s one today from Israel:
Hello Chuck,
Hard Lane from Israel. weekend biker and techno geek.
There is a famous line in Waynes World, “She will be mine”, that’s what I say about the Mojo SL.
But I’m not here to drool on pixels and bytes, (you probably get that alot) I just wanted to say to all of you at Ibis how thankful I am that there are still companies who take things lightly and with a sense of humor.
Reading your website was the best experience I had all week long, so a very big thank you from me.
Sincerely yours,
Hard
Now we have applied the same level of anonymity to our friend Hard from the holy land, using the server. Oh, and the IAS also told me that this person’s anagram was Anal Herd. But I went for the more friendly Hard Lane.
Anyway, thank you Bawl and thank you Hard! You made our day over here.
While we’re on Internet fun, if you’ve never figured out what your phone number spells, there’s a nice little site called phonespell.org. I used to have Owl Melt, but had to give it up.
Ciao, that’s it.
Oh, today my grandpa would have been 110. We really wanted him to make it to 100, being born in 1899 he would have lived in 3 centuries. He missed it by quite a bit unfortunately.
