Hal has claimed his prize, so you can stop sending those e-mails to Marketing Manager Extraordinaire Anne pretending to be him so you can get his travel mug. He just sent me this e-mail: 

When I got home in the evening, I found this cryptic email from a friend: “Congratulations! Are you going to take you 50 closest friends out for a cup of coffee and let them all drink out of your new stainless steel mug?”
  As you might imagine, I found this message very strange until a bit later when I read your blog and found out about the 1000th post prize. ...
 P.S.  I got an email from Anne Burger (what a great food name) a few minutes ago, and I sent her my mailing address.