It’s time, once again, to check in with the Refrigerator. The Fridge is featured on the Resist the Fridge page and is a nice little shiny black refrigerator, where you can play with some old school fridge alphabet and number magnets. Some readers have been nice enough (or bored enough) from time to time to leave me a little note.
The latest note is not a new one. It is merely an addendum to the prior note, shown here. The heart rending dilemma on who believes in the five second, or five lick rule for a puppy eating soy sauce, or your love of Chinese food is seriously tested. In the August edition (I am a little behind, I know its November), someone did not pen their own sonnet, but merely answered the question of the lone fridge artiste.
It reminds me of the magnets my brother and I had when we were little. He would write his name, in magnets, on the fridge, and I would probably come along and arrange the letters to read “Is a Dummy!” I was far from original in those days, but my fingers would seriously itch every time I walked by.
Would you like to leave a note for all the world, or at least me, to see? I’ll blog about it as long as it is something I can repeat. The fridge on this page is just a .jpg file, so I could freeze a fridge moment in time. If you want to write on the real fridge, do the following:
1) Travel to the Resist the Fridge page.
2) To create your own message, press “clear.” Drag and drop the letters and numbers to spell what’s on your mind. Don’t worry, you can use the individual letters as many times as you want. Otherwise, I would get a lot of notes that just said “QWERTY.” Then press “save.” It may ask you for your name. It usually will fill in your location, reading your ISP.
3) To add to a message, just drag and drop, and then press “save.”
Have fun!
Unfortunately, once you leave a message, the prior message is lost. That is why I am archiving as many as possible.
A few months ago, I issued a throw down. It was the type where one person just walks very quietly up to someone else, crisply removes their glove and smacks it on the thrown. Yes, I laid down the gauntlet. What am I all in a twist about? You were challenged to come up with the best refrigerator message you could possibly come up with. Unfortunately, you decided not to. Maybe you don’t know how to leave a note, maybe you can’t come up with anything.
There are quite a few hoity toity companies on Twitter nowadays. I have been following them and observing how the accounts are used differently than regular personal accounts. Marth Stewart has over half a million followers, but only follows 28 lucky people. The Ford Motor Company and 
Wow! That is the longest stretch I have gone not open the fridge. Back awhile, I issued you all a missive to let the games begin with my onine refrigerator magnets. Days went by with no refrigerlaureats. So, as I naturally do, I forgot about the whole thing. Today, I wandered over there and found that a note had been waiting for me all along! Someone HAD played with my magnets. In fact…because my nose was nerdily always in an Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie book as a kid, my powers of deduction are well developed. I suspect that because of the word choice and diction, the perp was either a LOLCat, LOLDog, or was at least a big fan of them.
