Planeteers

I don’t know if I ever blogged about Planeteers, but it’s pretty much just like my Pointless Junk email list way back in the day. I really wish Google had some better stats on the groups they hosted, as what they currently have is pretty limited (hire me, I’ll do it ;) haha). I believe I have all the emails sent to it saved, so I could probably write something to parse it and generate stats on my own (and I may one day), but that’s just another thing-I-want-to-do-but-have-no-time-for. Anyways, for the time being, I thought these were amusing:

I think the list started when we first got our gmail accounts around when I was interning at Metrowerks. A bunch of other people were also interning and it was the summer, so the list did pretty well then. After that, it kinda died for a bit with a pretty good revival the following summer. That stayed strong and we actually peaked in February (why is that?).

The following is a bit inaccurate, because some people have switched email accounts since the list started (I think I’ve switched at least two or three times, so my total email count is probably ridiculously high)… anyways, fun regardless:

So I went to the February archives to see what we were talking about to hit that 2000+ emails mark and found these:

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From:         Aaron Jacobs
Date:        Thurs, Feb 2 2006 12:24 am
I AM A GIANT BUCKET!

From:         Aaron Jacobs
Date:        Thurs, Feb 2 2006 12:26 am
I AM A GIANT BUCKET WITH A LIFETIME OF KNOWLEDGE!

From:         Viraj Bhagat
Date:        Wed, Feb 1 2006 2:54 am
@!#!% %^#@ face, didnt i tell u to stop @&^%(! callin
me that, u dumb #@$^

From:         Nathan Tsui
Date:        Mon, Feb 13 2006 10:45 pm
Hey everybody, I’m starting a new thread about suns!
Our sun is great. Isn’t this nice and informative?

From:         Andrew Joseph
Date:        Tues, Feb 14 2006 11:47 am
“Random is better than math”….I love robotics.
I have at least 10 girls here that want to meet Oliver.

From:         Chad Wilson
Date:        Thurs, Feb 16 2006 11:53 pm
Viraj isn’t Muslim?

From:         Viraj Bhagat
Date:        Fri, Feb 17 2006 12:08 am
Go Durka urself

From:         Van Nguyen
Date:        Mon, Feb 20 2006 9:15 am
Sorry to hear that man. =( Every morning when I get
up I say “Van is single…again” also.
Van

From:         Andrew Joseph
Date:        Fri, Feb 24 2006 12:11 pm
Quick send the ninjas to the future to intercept and destroy!!

From:         Nancy Wong
Date:        Fri, Feb 24 2006 7:46 pm
awwww guys!!! another problem to add onto my list
of diseases… I’VE GOT LACTOSE INTOLERANCE! I AM SO SAD
=( =( =(

From:         Sam
Date:        Tues, Feb 21 2006 10:34 pm
wouldn’t it be funny if I come back from the hosptial and like
Oliver just has a gf.

From:         Van Nguyen
Date:        Thurs, Feb 23 2006 4:24 pm
Lovely. I’ll buy it!
Van

From:         Katherine Fan
Date:        Mon, Feb 20 2006 12:06 am

: I’m STILL STUCK AT THE TEXAN BECAUSE SOMEONE
CAN’T GET A HOLD OF THEIR

SOURCES. OMGOMGOMGOGOGMOMGOGM!!

From:        Oliver
Date:        Mon, Feb 20 2006 4:42 pm
I can play Command & Conquer
-Oliver

Haha, there’s a ton of other stuff, but I won’t post a lot of them for… various reasons… haha.

Edit: I think I have a shin splint. =(