Every once in a while, I hear about another "National Something-Or-Other Day" or "National This-Or-That Month", and it makes me wonder. Who decides that August 5 will be "National Underwear Day"? (I'm not kidding about that one, by the way!) Unless there's some Department of National Days and Months that I've never heard about, anybody...
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"Evolution is like a box of baboons, you never design what your gonna implement." That almost sounds like it could mean something, doesn't it? I've got a script running on my blog named "Wisdom of the Drunken Sages" (it's one of mine). It takes the structure of a familiar sentence (like the Forrest Gump quote...
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I've finally done it -- Saturday night, I posted my first video on YouTube. It's one that I made for my Guru Stalker website, but I'll embed it here too: I'll keep "vodcasting" under that persona and see how it plays. Oh, and stay tuned for a much more polished video for the song you...
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I'm not one to spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, but videos like this make me wonder whether I'm missing more than I realized. This is the first take of Weird Al and Donny Osmond in front of the green screen shooting the video. In the final video, you only saw a little...
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You know the saying, "never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." I'd like to suggest an alternative, "never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till next week." Okay, I'm not entirely serious, but here's my thinking: if you've got a task that you're putting off because you just don't...
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Give a man a fish, and he'll sue you for a lifetime supply. Teach a man to fish, and his friends will sue you for not teaching them. Ah, the new American dream! I've read where a number of people have talked about how people they'd given something to got a sense of entitlement, expected...
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How's that for a headline? I'm trying out a new sales page for Fast JV with a little more..."spice", shall we say? Perhaps you've heard of the "AIDA" model of selling, where you first try to grab Attention, then inspire Interest, next arouse Desire, and finally provoke to Action. One popular technique for catching a...
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Last night, I thought I'd post a humorous entry about "Murphy's Razor", defining it along the lines of "the worst possible explanation is usually correct." But first, I decided to do a Google search to see if anyone else had combined Murphy's Law and Occam's Razor before. Sure enough, 62 results were found. I'd been...
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While perusing the junk mail at breakfast this morning, I came across this: Uh...the lobster's pretending to be a crab? I think I understand--he knows that crabs don't get boiled alive.

Here's an example of the kind of thing I think about while I lie awake at night.