Post your first name and home town and I will donate to the hurricane relief efforts

Charity sponsored: Red Cross

Ella and Woodstock have organized an official de-lurking day. The concept is thus: most of us know there are folks who read our blogs who never comment.

Maybe you stumbled upon here because you’re wondering about blue interstate logo signs, why cyclists wear strange clothes, how weather is forecast, are those ‘lose 95 pounds by October’ ebay sales scams (hint: yes), is a gas dryer really cheaper to operate, what in the sam hill is the difference between Life, Oat Bran and Uncle Sam or whether a coin dropped from a tall building kill you.

Maybe you’re just looking for something good to eat, like pumpkin bacon cream pasta, molasses-ginger cookies, shrimp gyoza (and need pictures), clam chowder, zucchini tostadas, or good salsa

Perhaps you prefer tales of schedule chicken, a good sales call, fear and loathing of analysts or stupid bureaucracy. Or, possibly, you have a rebate form for a trans-dimensional warp generator.

Now is your chance to come out of hiding and support a good cause: relief for survivors of hurricane Katrina.For every comment leaving a first name and home town on my blog by a unique person from now through Sunday at midnight Pacific, I’ll donate two dollars to the Red Cross.

Thanks to all those who have participated — the challenge is now completed. The donation for $100 has been sent (first half Friday night; second half Sunday morning).

Bonus note #2 (9/9/2005): my employer has matched my $100 donation with a donation to the Salvation Army. W00t!

And after you leave a comment, please visit some of the other participants:

• Rachael Bahl (new!)
• Kay-Dee at The Life Of A Dreamer
• Jon at metempsychosis rhetoric
• Woodstock
• Michael K. Willis at Bread And Roses
• Tastes Like Burning
• Barbara
• Ella