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Mental Flotsam

March 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments

So, this is a blog, right? I mean, it’s not really a blog. I mean, a blog is something where you, you know, write little blurbs and post links and stuff, right Lyza? To that end:

  • Happy Pi Day, everybody! This is a festive way of celebrating (make sure your speakers are on). Is it bad that it’s looping over and over in the background as I type this? It’s strangely soothing. I should make an entire CD of nothing but people reciting numbers of Pi in harmony over mellow electronic tracks. We could call it “electro-Pi”. I mean, hell, people listen to CDs of waves crashing and shit, why not electro-Pi?
  • While we’re on the subject of “Your the man now, dog”, here’s an example of my foray into that sort of thing. The looping is sorta messed up, but I think that’s their fault. My crowning achievement in the field of YTMND, the epic “I got a big decision to make” site is apparently gone. Lost in the sands of time. Or a server failure. Whatever, you get the idea.
  • Can I get an over-under on how long until I appear on this website? I’d set the over at three weeks.
  • I was, believe it or not, at one time actually paid to be funny. The only remaining link to my year as a columnist for the California Aggie is here. And let us all rejoice for editors, as I believe the original title for the column was “Getting all up in the V (day)”. Anyway, the whole “paid to be funny” thing is courtesy of one Andy Delfino, a fellow columnist. He used to yell that to people who he felt had muffed a joke (as in “hey…leave the jokes to me. I get paid to be funny”). The weird thing is, I believe we got paid something on the order of a dollar a column-inch, or about $15 a column (Jeffy, correct me here if I’m wrong). In the context of people like Sam and others who actually do really get paid good salaries to be funny, it’s a little strange to think of this ill-talented knob bragging about something like that.
  • You should go buy a shirt. They aren’t marked up at all! You get them at cost. The problem is, I can’t figure out if guys should wear the weiner one, being like “hey, I have a weiner”, or if guys should wear the boobs one and be like “hey, I like boobs”. Maybe a gay guy should just get the weiner one and lesbians should wear the boobs one. Lucky for me, I guess, I’ve recently come into a lot of lesbians. Either way, let me know if you want other color combinations or if you want the design on some other items. Just give me some time, because you’d be amazed at how hard it is to do the whole “( o Y o )” design. Trust me, that middle “Y” can be tricky.
  • I don’t think this site will take off in popularity, but hey, it was free, right? And you know what? I do like to zorch lots. And lots and lots and lots AND lots.

Our revels now are ended!

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2 responses so far ↓

  • Jeff // Mar 14, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    Yeah, we got paid a dollar a column inch, which basically works out to 2.5 cents a word. The checks were so insignificant I often forgot to pick them up for months at a time. It might look better if you broke it down to how many dollars we made for every laugh, in which case I got paid about two hundy per, as I was probably only legitimately funny maybe five times over the course of, like, 50 columns. I am so glad those columns are gone from the internets. That shit is embarrassing.

  • cruden ee // Apr 15, 2006 at 8:48 pm

    whoa whoa whoa. i suppose this tshirt site lends credit to you “zorch” definition in dr. mario. I still can whoop yo’ ass at that game though-regardless of what you want to call the pill/virus deletion combos.

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