Surf Roots, Software Thoughts

I spoke previously about a few really awesome datasets.  I claimed my favorite was Enron emails from 150 employees.  Now that I’ve started playing with the Enron corpus, I’ve decided that the best thing to do is post the funniest emails I stumble across.  Here’s the first of hopefully many:

From:     Bass, Eric
Sent:    Friday, November 16, 2001 1:11 PM
To:    Love, Phillip M.; Blanchard, Timothy; Ryder, Patrick; Farmer, Daren J.; Smith, Jay; Olsen, Michael; Parks, Joe; Baumbach, David; Hull, Bryan; ‘val.generes@accenture.com’; Lenhart, Matthew; ‘kevin.a.boone@accenture.com’; Winfree, O’Neal D.; Rabon, Chance; Mills, Bruce
Subject:

I’m trying to get a feel for everyone’s desire to play PAINTBALL in the next few weeks.  This would obviously not be sponsored by Enron b/c Enron doesn’t have enough cash to buy anything right now.

So let me know if you would be interested and, if so, when you would be available to go.   The cost should be around $30-40 a person.

Please forward to anyone I have forgotten or might be interested.

-Eric

Note the date: November 16, 2001.  Enron went under at the end of 2001, according to Wikipedia.  I feel a little strange posting these with names attached to them, but I suppose since this is public data I might as well go for it.