"Gentlemen, Welcome to SaveMyAss."

[jrtom]

No, I mean seriously. http://savemyass.com/home actually exists.

Properly, it ought to be savemyassbysendingmysoflowersonasemirandombasis.com, but I suppose that was already taken.

I don't have any real problems with this sort of service, although it does seem to me to be moving in the direction of a hazy ethical area. The first thing it reminded me of, though, was the apparently now-defunct CoincidenceDesign.com, which I remember my friends and I going nuts over (and not in a good way) when we first encountered it in early 2002. (Fortunately, it turns out, that turned out to be more or less a hoax.)

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High-maintenance meets online "secretary"

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

I figure the people this involves deserve what they get. The guys have a woman whom they think will throw a hissy if she does not get flowers, the women have a man who can't be trusted to do something important to them when they know it's important.

C'est la vie, c'est la guerre.

Re: High-maintenance meets online "secretary"

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I figure the people this involves deserve what they get.

Arguably, yes. But I do wonder whether using such a service has its own cost in promoting such expectations, and such atrophy of ability.

On the other hand...am I less considerate because I use a PDA to remind me of when appointments are? How about birthdays?

Personally, I don't think I'd use such a service: it feels too easy. (Plus Megan would figure it out in a hot minute, because she knows how I do flowers.) Meaning, I guess, that I only have to remember it _once_ and then it's taken care of. If I were on the receiving end, I'd probably feel weird about it, too--flowers are supposed to feel personal, and knowing that a pseudorandom number generator was responsible for the timing wouldn't tend to promote that.