PUP — Episode 2: The inventor emails us

Jean Newell, whose PUP (Personal Utility Pouch; pictured above) was featured here back on October 18, 2005, yesterday brought me up to date on what's been going down out back in the PUP skunk works.

Seems like they've been busy.

It's nice to know that somewhere people are actually doing something.

Around here it's like the land that time forgot.

But I digress.

Excerpts from her cheery email follow.

Dear Joe,

In Oct 2005 you reviewed my product, the PUP (personal utility pouch). I often "google" my name or the PUP to see what appears and your blog is always one of them. I can't thank you enough for being so kind to a new entrepreneur. I just read your [latest] cease and desist letter and can't believe it. Obviously they don't know the power of the internet.

Before I forget, I have to tell you a funny story I'm not sure I mentioned in 2005 when I responded to your email. I don't believe in 2005 the word Blog was quite as popular a word with internet novices as it is today. At least I didn't know the word.

You emailed me and said you were going to blog my website. Since I didn't know what that meant and because the word Blog sounds so "nasty" I thought, this can't be good. I was on the phone calling my friends to find out what blogging my site was going to do to it; shut it down, block it from view, I was in tears. Got a quick education on the internet that day.

In any event I found my old link on your website again and all of the connections to my website don't work any longer. Probably because I have another hosting site. In any event I did want to share that story with you in the hope it might bring you a little chuckle on how naive most people are when it comes to the internet. So, thank you again for blogging me. I did get quite a few hits from it. Oh, now I'm showing off with my internet lingo.

I have a new bag that I am currently marketing to QVC called the giZmo [below].



It's similar in many ways to the PUP but a little larger and the straps come off. Another feature I've included is a way to secure the zippers so they are a pickpocket deterrent. I would like to send you one of my new giZmos to show my appreciation for what you did for me over 2 years ago. Would you please email me your snail mail address? Maybe it will make up in some small way for the idiots like screaming meanie. Hey, maybe that's his real name.

Most sincerely,

Jean Newell

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Just named Official giZmo (and PUP) of bookofjoe.

Check 'em out.

Tell her joe sent you and she'll laugh so hard, she might even cry.