Grant review: Eisen may not be able to help much due to time spent on blog; Eisen's response - blog about it

Wrote a draft of this post in 2012.  Decided to post it now since I included some information about it in a talk and it has gotten some reaction on the intertubes (e.g., Blog about science? Kiss your grant proposal goodbye).  This is what I wrote after getting the reviews back and decided, for various reasons, to never post.  In retrospect, I think I should have posted then ...

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Got this back in a grant review for a project that I have a minor role in:

Outstanding group of individuals, and the organizational and management structure appears sound with clear roles and responsibilities of theme faculty. There is a large focus on developing this for microbiome research, but Eisen seems to be the only team member with this expertise, and may not have the bandwidth to coordinate this on such a large project alone, especially given his high time commitment to his blog. 

I started drafting a letter to the reviewer - partly about how great I think I am and partly to vent some anger ... here is the beginning:

Dear Reviewer 

1. Fuck you.
2. Apparently getting elected to the American Academy of Microbiology this year was due to my blogging.
3. I have 31907 citations in Google Scholar.  What the fuck do you have?
4. My blog is in fact about EXACTLY what we were talking about in the proposal, you fucking piece of fucking shit.
5. Fuck you.
6. You are right in a way - I have little time to spare.  Did I somehow not do something you wanted me to do?  Fine.  Say that.  But focusing on my blog just shows you are a ...

But then I realized this was a bit too much.  I should not let this comment lead me to get defensive about my career, my blog, etc.  Plus, I was spending too much time on this.  (The above took 2 minutes and 12 seconds to write and then another 1 minute and 11 seconds to highlight and link up and ponder).  So I decided to be more concise

Dear Reviewer 

Fuck you. 

Love,
Jonathan Eisen

But then I realized,  cursing was not the solution.  Maybe love would be better?

Dear Reviewer 

Thank you for your insight.  I will do my best to spend less time blogging in the future.

Love,
Jonathan Eisen

But this still did not seem right.  So I decided that the best option was to do nothing.  So that is what I am doing.  Nothing.  No response.  No blog post.  Nothing.  There.  I feel better already.