Stimulation...

Best damn web design quote.... Best damn web design quote ever: The fact is that most people do not use the web for visual stimulation. People use the web to buy things, find information, make contacts, and what they notice is whether they can successfully... [Dane Carlson's Weblog]

If this were true, how would that explain porn businesses and the extraordinary amount of money they generate? Obviously, someone is interested in what the web looks like and they're getting very stimulated off it.

 

Welcome to the neighborhood...
A big hey howdy diddly to Kylara. Have you read CampinGuy.com? 

I've been doing a little thinking...

In my Daily Stomping through the news aggregator I came across this interesting test (via Grumpus Maximus) over at the BBC. It's a really interesting test on the theory that the way you think and the things you think about more influence who you are. If you have about 5 minutes or so it's definetely an enlightening test and I reccomend giving it a try. If you're at work get your boss to take it and compare answers. Maybe you can better understand the person you work for and they can understand you.

Here are my results. For those of you that know me, how well do my results fit me?

 

 

It's organic...

Here in California we have organic everything. We have organic fruits, organic vegetables. We have organic meat, organic fish, organic water, organic sunblock to keep you from getting inorganically suntanned. While wandering through the local supermarket I came across some organic chocolate milk. Mmmm....chocolate. One shelf lower was the normal chocolate milk we purchase but it lacked something, a cool, old timey (is that a word) glass container.

"What the hell," I figured. I opened the freezer and loaded the cool glass bottle of stuff into the cart. I couldn't wait to get home and have a nice, frosty cold glass of chocoalte milk.

I think my first warning sign should have been the fact that the chocolate had formed a layer along the bottom of the bottle and refused to mix no matter how hard I tried. It just seemed to know that it was wrong to mix with that organic stuff and didn't want to do it.

After arriving home I tried and tried to get the chocolate and milk to mix. No dice. Just a brown lump of goo sitting at the bottom of some lighter brown liquid in my cool glass bottle. "Maybe it's just too cold", I thought and placed the bottle upside down (to speed the mixing process) on the counter to warm for a while.

I guess my second warning sign should have been coming back 2 hours later and finding the chocolate still stuck to the bottom of the bottle in a brown lump of goo somewhat reminiscent of the Exxon Valdez spill.

I opened the bottle and dumped a little of the milk out to make room for some air to help the mixing process along. Replacing the cap I began to shake vigorously. The milk was still fairly cold. With vigorous shaking for about 5 minutes I finally got the milk and chocolate to mix, albeit stubbornly.

I poured myself a small cup savoring the moment. "This is gonna be good," I though. "If normal milk has all those proteins, additives and other stuff this oughta taste like organic heaven." I took a sip.

It's hard to put into words exactly what went through my mind. Organic milk, organic cocoa, organic sugar, organic vitamin a combined to make organic chocolate milk that tastes suspiciously like....like....

Dirt.

Dirt.

Well, I guess that's about as organic as you can get. As the old saying goes, "God made dirt so dirt don't hurt." But does it have to taste like dirt? Maybe if I added some Nestle Quik to it....

 

Fun with numbers...
Hmmm...let's do some math. If you're a geek and you've been online since the mouse-click heard round the world in 1996 then you've been on for roughly 7 years. If you were online everyday you have been on for...(calculator time)....2,555 days. True geeks would be online no less than 6 hours per day. That's 15,330 hours over 7 years, or about 919,800 minutes. Wow! 

Space for rent...

Wow! Check this out! You can rent Chris Pirillo's mind now! I sure wish people would rent my mind. It's got a lot of free space! I promise.

 

I'd vote for him...

A bunch of cool stuff today. I went to WGBH to watch Chris Lydon do the last show in his Whole Wide World series. This one was live. I loved it. I took pics. And then we all went out for dinner at Upstairs On The Square in Cambridge. Lots of talk about NH weblogs, and I passed around an idea I've been circulating via email (up till now) -- drafting Philip Greenspun to run for President of the United States. As I was reading his blog this morning the thought hit me -- I'd vote for him -- in a second. I'd even work for him. I don't agree with all of his ideas, some of them are downright wacky (and probably illegal) but he gets you thinking. What's he got to lose? He's over 35, and I guess he's Jewish, but then so is Joe Lieberman. I mentioned this to Chris, he says he knows Lieberman (of course), but he really liked the idea of Greenspun running. Meanwhile Betsy Devine is organizing support for Howard Dean. I said to Chris I want to have a real election next time around. He looked at me, and in his British-American way said "There's the slogan." I guess that's it. [Scripting News]

Hey. I'd vote for Philip Greenspun.

 

Daily things...

Did you notice that there wasn't a post for Daily Thing yesterday? Does that mean it's not a Daily Thing?

;^)

 

 

Blogshares...

Wow! My Blogshares in Joe are up to $0.91 a share (ATP). That would bring predicted earnings of $385 if I decided to sell now.

Dane , on the other hand, is holding steadily at $0.34 a share (ATP). You'd think all those teenage girls visiting his site would be providing some linkage to drive his net worth up.

 

Brad Sucks dude!...

"Very Beck-esque". Brad Sucks ("a one man band with no fans"):  Fixing My Brain (.mp3)  [via scottandrew.com] [jenett.radio]

Hey! I'd buy that! Pretty good song.

 

Mirth is the third planet from the Sun...

Iraq shows off Apache crew. The Pentagon confirms that two men paraded on Iraqi TV are the crew of a missing helicopter gunship. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

Ok! That headline just sounds...um....ga...hom...alter...BAD! I can see it now...

Saddam:"Thith ith our new Apashe crew. Bruth ith wearing thith darling green jumpsuit that brings out the color in hith eyeth."

Or...

Saddam:"When they said Apache I thought we were getting the indian from the Village people."

You figure out what the joke is.

 

More to it than meets the eye....

Mapping the Penalties of Failure. Below is a picture of of a map that hangs in my office; it shows an area in the Balkans and was created around 1790. I bought it in a dusty little bookstore in Juneau Alaska, but that's another story. It's inscribed in French, Polish, and Turkish (written pre-reform in Arabic script). Like many maps it's very beautiful, but it's more than a little weird, and carries an important lesson.... [ongoing]

A very good analogy, and being a fan of maps (I have dozens!), I have to agree.

 

Writers vs. Geeks....

Documentation writers shouldn't write documentation. GEEKS should write documentation. After all, they know the product inside and out. And for most things needing documentation, well, most likely it's gonna be geeks using it.

Ok. I'm just a little miffed. I've been sitting here trying to figure out how assign a port so I can use Radio remotely. I did everything they say and it doesn't work. In small print at the bottom of my http: setup page for the router it says, "refer to the Belkin Wireless Router Users Guide". So I pulled out the guide and read the section again. Still the same, can't get to Radio. Being the logical person I am, I went to the website to look for further documentation. Just a PDF of the userguide.

Thing is, the user guide sucked! I can't believe they put something like that on the market. Personally I think they should ask you at the counter, "Sir, would you say you are a geek?"

To which I would reply,"Doesn't the pocket protector and the fact that I'm carrying everything from a PDA to a GPS unit give it away?" To which they'd hand me THE BIG BOOK OF GEEKY ROUTER THINGS, not this piddly little thing that I'm wondering why they wasted their time printing it.

Rant done. I feel better. On with the show! Oh! If anyone knows how to configure this damn Belkin POS router give me a holler.