This is Not the Phone Number You’re Looking For
Sean Gleason would like you to know that there is no Dreamhost phone number. This isn’t a problem for me — Dreamhost representatives are downright chatty when it comes to emails, and they have provided me with fantastic service to date.
It’s just as well that they don’t answer the phone — I never learned to speak Californian. All I can manage is a few stock phrases, such as, “So, like, so where is the bathroom, dude? Omigod.”
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I read Sean’s post, and Googled the phrase, and sure enough, there is his whois info. I’m not sure if he realizes it, but if you “Yahoo” the very same phrase, the first hit is his actual complaint post about Google.
Sure, it could be very annoying with the phone calls and all, but how cool is it to search for something that really has nothing to do with you, and end up being the number 1 hit on Google and Yahoo. Then again, I’ve lived a sheltered life. Cool to me is having my name show up on a whitepages.com search.
Joe, I too would have trouble mastering Cali-speak. I lived in Oklahoma from age 2 thru 19, and the only thing I picked up was y’all. Living in Texas now, it is discernible to no one. When I lived in Chicago, though, y’all made me stick out like a porcupine at a balloon convention. You don’t know how many times I had heard the movie quote, “Only two things come from Oklahoma……….”
I was born and raised in Northeast Arkansas, and I speak fluent Redneck. Lest anyone should feel sorry for me…….Don’t. I have just enough intestinal fortitude to not give a great hairy rip what anybody thinks of my grasp of the Queen’s English. I do know the correct pronunciation and usage of the language, and a smattering of several others, but I just don’t feel the urge to force my angst on others for their butchery of words.
Such as: eck-scape……..mock-si-can……..Loo-ee-zee-anna (everyone knows it’s pronounced, loo-zee-anna)…..Muh-zoor-a (what-ever, it should be, Miz-zoor-ee)……..and a personal favorite, Min-nee-uhn-ap-pol-is.
I’m sure you can think of several others.
Who died and left everyone but Southerners the Language and Accent Police? After all, if WE were to sit in judgment of their pronunciation, THEY would be the ones with the accent, LOL.
So, in open defiance of all that the rest of the U.S. holds dear…..
Ya’ll come on (long O) in, set a spell, and let’s visit a wall…..hee hee.
Okay, mini-rant over, dismounted from soapbox.
I just couldn’t resist,
Anyone who shows up with no discernible accent at all I assume to be either a TV news anchor or an animatronic device. (Yes, there is considerable overlap between the two.)
It occurs to me that all that remains of my command of the Turkish language is: integers one through ten, and “Where is the toilet?” (”Tuvalet nerede?”)
I’ve always been told that I have no discernable accent, and I’m not a TV news anchor.
Egad. I’m a Stepford Husband.
My accent is almost as bad as Sissy Spaceks’ in “Coal Miner’s Daughter”, especially when I am not concentrating on it. I do know the correct pronunciation and inflections, though, and I do know there is supposed to be a “G” at the end of every “ing” suffix. I don’t often pronounce them, but I know, nonetheless.
Diane, now that you mention it, I do say the occasional “goin’ somewhere” or “I’m listenin’ to a song.” I really do strive to have those TV News anchor qualities, though.
Speaking of that, how come every television news anchor sounds like he/she just stepped off the Webster’s Dictionary Ride at Merriam’s Fun Park, yet 30 percent of the meteorologists and 75 percent of the sportscasters sound like they just came from a Glenn Campbell concert?
Gary England: “Let’s chick the fuurcast. Cloudy, breezy, a few thunner storms.” With respect, of course, to Mr. England. I know there a lot of Gary and his M.O.A.R. lovers out their in Oklahoma. Like I said before, I was always a Fred Norman Fan, though I’m sure today the only weather related info he can give is when the ground temperature reaches the Dew Point.
What is Dreamhost?
Dreamhost is a web hosting provider. In fact, they’re my provider. They do a pretty darn good job, which is to say they manage to stay unobtrusive and out of the way.