Why it’s never a good idea to register domain names while drunk: About a year ago, my coworker Colleen dragged me kicking and screaming into the world of Survivor 2. At first, I was strong and resisted. But Colleen sat next to me, and her constant discussion of Outback goings-on was eventually too much to take. I had to watch. (To my credit, she was never able to drag me into Temptation Island, The Mole, or the myriad other “reality” shows she was and is addicted to. Also, Elisabeth was really all the motivation I needed to keep tuning in every week.)

Anyway, when the final episode came around, our local Dallasite Colby lost to an undeserving Tina. At a party a few days after the final episode, Colleen’s husband Eric and I were discussing the injustice of it all, when Eric had a brilliant idea for taking advantage of the media hype surrounding Survivor.

We should start a web site, he said. A site that claims that Colby deserved the million-dollar-prize he was unjustly denied — that indeed, Colby had already won in the eyes of Texas and the eyes of the world. The site would accept donations from like-minded folks who believed that Colby had made the show the success it was, not mousy Tina. The money would be donated to Colby (with, perhaps, a cut for us) to make up for his loss. We figured it’d be easy enough to get the Survivor-mad media to write about our little site. It was a sure-fire path to Internet stardom.

Colleen immediately pointed out a problem with our plan — if Eric and I were the front men for this little endeavor, we’d clearly appear to be obsessed with Colby in more than a television-fandom sort of way, if you get my drift. So she volunteered to be our female spokeswoman for media calls. So about four beers into the evening, I found myself giving my credit card information online and registering a domain.

Needless to say, this went nowhere. The shell of a dummy page was put up, but the idea was quickly forgotten. The media lust for all things Survivor faded.

And now, all that’s left is an email in my inbox telling me that colbywon.com will expire in another month. If you want to snag it after May 20, feel free.

Why it’s probably a good thing I cancelled my cable on Friday: See above.

08 April 2002

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