There is a difference between shameless and guilt-free

 


Blackmailees
September 2000 Blackmailees
Frank Christensen
Founding Blackmailee and Chairman Emeritus

October Blackmailees
Greg Johnson     Murray O'Laoire     Bo Clawson     James Dixon     Mobley Architects

November Blackmailees
Menus: James Dixon     Gary Veasy     Rick Blanchard     Greg La Vardera     Brad Miller

December Blackmailees
Erik Mar     Stebbins Engineering     Sketches: Jacques Pochoy     Cards: Ferrin & Pochoy     Sketches: Andy Caldwell

January 2001 Blackmailees
Sketches: Matt Arnold     Chuck Gallup     Richard Paquet     Trains: Richard Paquet     Mark Rhodes

February Blackmailees
Ed Jaworski   Peter Bacot   Randy Mudge     Fred Goodman     Robert Wease

March Blackmailees
Michael Wolfe     Bill Gore     James Dixon     Loheed Design     Thomas Hendricks

April Blackmailees
Craig Burns     Bob Payne     Patrick Douglas     Cal Holcombe     Loheed Design

May Blackmailees
Christopher Roehl     Chuck Gallup     Presentation Graphics: Brian Huculak     Jacques Pochoy     Brian Huculak

June Blackmailees
Ray Strang     Erik Mar     Presentation Graphics: John DeFazio   Ron Gillespie     Baobab Architects

July Blackmailees
Chris Ackerman     Steve Mouzon     Mobley Architects     Mike Wolfe     Randy Mudge

August Blackmailees
Robert Wease     Loheed Design     DSH     Fred Weller     Jeff Snyder

September Blackmailees
Alfred Scott
Blackmail quota waived for September, a somber month this year.

October Blackmailees
Patrick Marr     Fred Weller     Eric Valdivia     Chuck Gallup     Matt Arnold

November Blackmailees
Jacques Pochoy     John DeFazio     Ed Groh     David Scott     Sketches:Brian Huculak

December Blackmailees
Juliet Kurth     David Celento & Rebecca Henn

March 2002 Blackmailees
Robert Wease     Michael McGuire     Durante Kreuk     Bernhard Marchi

May Blackmailees
Erik Mar     Greg La Vardera

June Blackmailees
Juliet Kurth     Adam Wisler     Rob Coolidge

July Blackmailees
Greg La Vardera   Michael McGuire

August Blackmailees
Peter Bacot

October Blackmailees
Derek Dubout     Pat Loheed     Eric Valdivia     Richard Paquet

June Blackmailees
Jon Buswell    Eric Valdivia   John Siegenthaler   Phil Loheed   Michael Spencer   Brian Huculak

July Blackmailees
Craig Burns

August Blackmailees
Jeffrey Jakucyk

December Blackmailees
Peter Kramer

January 2003 Blackmailees
Richard Paquet

February Blackmailees
Robert Wease

June Blackmailees
Steed Hammond Paul

September Blackmailees
MaryBeth Mudrick & Lawrence D. Smith

April Blackmailees
Frank Sandoval

May Blackmailees
Michael Spencer

April 2007 Blackmailees
Juliet Kurth  Phil Loheed  Greg Johnson  Matt Arnold  Michael Spencer

May 2007 Blackmailees
Strother Scott   Mark Rhodes Cartoons   Rob Coolidge   Jason Amador-Locher   Steve Woolf

June 2007 Blackmailees
Erik Mar   Ron Gillespie   Frank Sandoval   Mark Rhodes Technical Drawings   James Dixon

July 2007 Blackmailees
Your name goes here.

 

I don't mind doing the work to write WildTools for all of you out there, but there's something you can do for me -- create an entry in the Drawing Room, so we can show off your work and spread the news about what you can draw with PowerCADD and WildTools.

I've tried pleading, begging, supplication, threats and personal intimidation, with varying success. In the case of a particularly slippery and pigheaded user, I was forced to resort to blackmail, complete with a signed Blackmail Agreement, to get an entry in the Drawing Room. I had no choice!

I concluded that blackmail pays, and so from October 2000 to August 2001 we had a Fully Integrated Beta Testing/Blackmail Program!

Of course it was all done in jest and meant to be a lot of fun for everyone. But during that period, we had an explosion of entries in the Drawing Room. Just take a look at the list of Blackmailees listed above. Looking back on it, this created the best and most effective marketing tool we ever had for marketing PowerCADD and WildTools.

So, we're going to do it again. At this time, there are a lot of new features in WildTools that will be available in WildTools 9 which will be released with PowerCADD 8. Here is how it works: While beta testing is going on, we will need five (5) new entries per month for testing to continue. Each version of NewTools has an expiration date, and if we don't meet our blackmail quota, then you're all going to have to do without the features until we get caught up.

For those of you who already have a Drawing Room entry, we will count a major upgrade of the entry as meeting the blackmail quota. We're looking to create diversity here, so if you do something unusual with PowerCADD, beer labels, panther cages, model railroads, pinups for pedophiles, etc., then we'd like create a separate entry for that as well.

I don't know about all of you, but I'm tired of going to parties and have people make condescending comments about Macs, and how the world belongs to Windows and AutoCAD, and this is the only way I know to fight back.

So, I'm going look forward to hearing from all of you! Call it blackmail, extortion, bribery or symbiotic exhibitionism, or anything else you like, but I am completely unapologetic about this -- just look at the Drawing Room that we have now and the great drawings that are in there. And just think about the honor of becoming a Blackmailee and joining the elite group listed above.

Alfred Scott

 

One victim at a time