a stream of consciousness

wtf?

mrsilver thought

not a fan of the ending, i think they just did that to leave it open. what about this one…

tony talks to the fbi, his family gets immunity and goes into witness protection.

they could have still left it open with that, like someday later he get contacted at his witness protection location or something.

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http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=22725413&size=l

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following up my email joke etitquette article i’d like to propose a solution to the problem.

to recap:

it is difficult to gauge joke responses online. when you write a funny email to a group, you dont know if its funny or not to others because its not in real time, so they don’t feel pressured to respond.

this leaves jokesters who want to know how their jokes did, up the creek without a paddle…

until now

what if you could select (highlight) text and then assign a comedic value to that piece of text.

like for example how you use the bold and italics commands in word. but instead of font styling this is joke rating.

so a document might have ten jokes which were chosen and rated by a reader. it is important that the reader select what they think is funny on their own because some people find things funny that others dont and vice versa.

also readers can insert their own comments easily, or add to a joke. “yeah no shit man”, “no no no, imagine him throwing up all over….”, etc..

then your document could get a rating for the average of all the joke scores. like an overall lol2.5, or an lol3, etc…

well, glad we solved that one today. if anyone does this i want one million dollars.

UPDATE: hmmm this already exists, or close to it:

http://ratepoint.com/

mrsilver thought

great quote from ben affleck in boiler room.

what a great way to be cocky about money

“i am so fucking liquid“

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eat this. this is my body.

church is funny.

can you order these church supplies online (bread / wine / gold cups / etc…)? and does the communion bread come in sleeves like ritz crackers? i picture like priests eating them with peanut butter and getting wasted on wine.

i want to take a class so i can start blessing wine and those little bread tablets.

it’d be hilarious to bless people’s drinks at bars.

“let me see your beer”

then layout like a napkin and start doing some hand motions and prayer mumbling

“drink this beer… do this in memory of me.”

mrsilver thought

recently at work, a friend discussed an interesting idea.

“yeah, ” he said. “when i want something at work, i just ask for it. and i have a good reason. i always get it.”

“really? what’s an example?”

“he said one time he wanted two monitors. so he started telling people at work how it sucks how he only has one monitor at work and what not.

his line was “i got two monitors at home. i come to work, its like seeing with one eye.”

and i’ll tell you what… he got his monitors…he earned those monitors….

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“

this is a philosophical debate. many people think the universe has a big sign on it that says “do not touch.”

leave alone. it was made this way. it is not in our right as human beings to change anything.

i can respect that view although i disagree with it.

i think the universe has a big sign on it that says:

“go forth and spread life”

because when i look around the universe i think life is the most amazing thing we see.

it is just incredible.

and we human beings are uniquely positioned to help spread life, from this little tiny planet, which it seems to have started on… beyond

and thats our gift

earth’s gift to the universe, i think, is the gift of life

-great quote from a mars underground special about exploring new planets:

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johnny cash covered nine inch nails song hurt

trent reznor’s reaction via wikipedia:

In an interview with Alternative Press, Reznor admitted that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was “flattered” but worried that “the idea sounded a bit gimmicky.” The power of Cash’s cover didn’t fully hit Reznor until he saw the video:

“I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore. … It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning—different, but every bit as pure.”

Reznor still occasionally refers to “Hurt” as “a song that isn’t mine anymore.”

now enjoy the video…

mrsilver thought

when you’re online, usually you dont like to read alot on the screen.

unless its great like this blog. (cheap joke)

btw, thats why i always space things out so much. isn’t it much eaiser and quicker to read?

anywho, the point is this:

online when you come across an article you size it up (with or without knowing) very quickly

here’s a few things you take inventory on (subconsciously):

1. url address
   1. is this a legit site like microsoft.com or is it geocities.com/someuser
2.  layout of the site
   1. is he clean?
   2. if he is, let him in and tell him to take his shoes off. (movie reference?)
3. title of the article
   1. snappy words
   2. cool topic
4. author of the article
   1. ever heard of em?
   2. whats their title / position
5. quick skim of article
   1. have i read this?
   2. how does it look?

you may not realize it, but you’re sizing it up too. christ i bet you just did it before you read this.

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