THAT got my attention!

I just got a postcard for the latest issue of the Statistical Computing and Graphics newsletter.  The newsletter has a new trick:

With this new issue of the newsletter we start a tradition of sending
you a postcard* in the mail heralding the forthcoming publication. We
plan for this December’s postcard to be the first of many, so that your
walls might be filled with interesting statistical graphics cards after
several years. If you did not receive a postcard and you are a member
of either the Graphics and/or Computing Section, write to the ASA and
make sure to update your address with them. You don’t want to miss
future mailings.

I’ve belonged to the Statistical Graphics Section
for years, and I seldom remember to read the newsletter–but this
little reminder does the trick.  The newsletter has lots of
practical information and code, and most important, online back issues.

*They don’t reproduce the postcard in the newsletter, so I faked up a
quick "sketch" based on one of the graphics in the newsletter.