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September 29, 2006
Web 2.0 fl oz. to Freedom
We live in a Web 2.0 world. Whether you use MySpace, or not, or think that there are WAY too many Web 2.0 initiatives (like I do), face it, you’ve been touched by it somehow (did it feel good?). Well now we can all sit back and have a bit of fun at Web 2.0’s expense... I just ran across this idea while checking out Digg and thought it was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while:
The Web 2.0 Drinking Game
(source: Adam Frucci of SCI FI)
- Take a drink for every message you get from a blatantly obvious pornbot.
- Take a drink for every friend request you get from a mediocre unknown band.
- Take a drink if you manage to find the person you had a crush on in 2nd grade.
- Finish your drink if they’re still hot.
- Take a drink for every profile you come across that has illegible text due to a huge, awful background image.
- Take a drink for every girl wearing next to nothing in her profile photo with over 1,000 friends.
- Take a drink every time you hit stop on a profile’s music because you’re already listening to music.
- Take two drinks if you’ve ever met up with someone you met on MySpace.
- Finish your drink if they were significantly less attractive than their photo makes them look.
- Take a drink if you see a story on the Digg front page about Digg itself.
- Take another drink if the story is about Digg founder Kevin Rose.
- Take another drink if the story about Kevin Rose is a half-baked conspiracy theory.
- Take a drink if the same story has been submitted twice on the first page of fresh stories.
- Take 2 drinks if there are 4 repeats.
- Finish your drink if there are 6 repeats.
- Take a drink for every Nintendo Wii or Apple story with more than 100 comments.
- Take a drink for every story that was obviously submitted by its author.
- Take a drink for every comment that criticizes poor spelling or grammar in a way that is grammatically incorrect or features misspelled words.
- Take a drink for every story whose link is dead because the “Digg Effect” crashed the site.
- Take a drink for every 5 commenters who complain about it.
- Finish your drink if the site’s webmaster complains about it.
- Take a drink every time you see a video of a celebrity doing something embarrassing.
- Take another drink if that celebrity is P. Diddy.
- Take a drink every time you sneak a peek at a NSFW video at work.
- Take a drink every time someone forwards you a video that is so boring or lame you don’t finish watching it.
- Take a drink for every video you see of someone doing something (drumming, guitar playing, etc.) really quickly.
- Take a drink for every video designed to look like a home video that’s obviously part of a publicity stunt from a major corporation.
- Take a drink every time you watch a clip from a show you forgot to TiVo.
- Take a drink every time you find a music video you haven’t seen in years and realize it’s not as cool as it was when you were 13.
- Take a drink for every article that seems to be of questionable accuracy.
- Take a drink for every article that someone has snuck a reference to Stephen Colbert into.
- Take a drink for every NSFW photo you find hosted on an article you looked up as a joke.
- Take a drink every time you get in trouble for citing Wikipedia as a trustworthy source.
- Take a drink for every article you find that you were sure wouldn’t have an article on Wikipedia.
- Take a drink for every 15 minutes you’ve wasted just reading random articles instead of working.
- Finish your beer if you’ve ever actually corrected or submitted an article.
- Drink a keg if there’s an entry for you on Wikipedia – and you didn’t submit it.
- Take a drink for every 10 photos you have uploaded.
- Take a drink for every embarrassing photo of yourself you wish you could remove from your friends’ pages.
- Take a drink for every user page you find that has every mediocre photo they’ve ever taken.
- Take a drink for every tag of questionable accuracy you find on people’s photos.
- Take a drink for every photo you see of drunk people with their arms around each others shoulders.
- Take a drink for every generic city skyline shot taken at an angle at an attempt at being “artistic.rdquo; Editor: Hey…
- Take a drink for every generic landscape/mountain/sunset shot you see.
- Take a drink for every photo of yourself you can find.
- Take a drink for every picture of someone’s cat.
- Finish a six pack if you’ve posted pictures of your cat.
Posted by Seth at 02:04 PM | Comments (4)
September 24, 2006
Tupac Lives (with AMC)
This morning I decided to take a walk down to the River Market for breakfast at Succotash. Since I was walking through downtown, I figured that I’d walk around all of the new Power and Light district construction to see what’s been going on. The nice thing about walking around all of the construction are the giant rendering signs, showing you what the block (or building) will look like when it’s done.
Aside from the Sprint Center and the new grocery store, the thing I’m excited most about is the new AMC Theatre that will be two blocks away from my place. AMC will renovate the currently unused Empire Theatre (which was once called the Mainstreet Theatre) at 1400 Main St.
It’s rumored that this will be a test theatre for AMC and what movies they’ll play there. Instead of catering to a more main-stream audience, AMC is planning on running indie films, foreign films and the bigger popular smash films.
When you look closely at the rendering next to the building, however, you’ll notice the names of the films that are running in fiction-land:
- Groget’s Lame
- Plain Sight
- Tragic Happens
- Juice
- Chain of Events
- Shaolin
Of those movies two are real. Chain of Events and Juice. Now I’m not su...
WAIT!!!! That said Juice! Holy crap! AMC loves Tupac! They’re keeping him alive in their renderings of new theatres! God love you, AMC... you got the juice, now.
Posted by Seth at 07:15 PM | Comments (2)
September 22, 2006
That Silly Elmo
Elmo’s back! I’m not sure why, but this makes me laugh. Someone get this for me this holiday season!
Posted by Seth at 02:20 PM | Comments (2)
September 19, 2006
Can You Digg It?
Since it’s been a long while that I’ve updated my “Links of Interest,” I thought it was far past time to go a little more Web 2.0 with my site. I recently joined the ranks of Digg and I must say that the site rules. If you look over to the right (-->) you’ll see that “Links of Interest” has been replaced with “Stories That I ‘Dugg’.” That list will update any time that I Digg a story, thus keeping my site a bit more fresh than before. Don’t fret, you don’t have to sit there and hit the refresh button to see which stories I like... you could just subscribe to my personal Digg RSS feed, if you’d like.
Posted by Seth at 10:44 AM | Comments (1)
September 18, 2006
Adobe CS2 Tongue Twister
In July, as I was installing Adobe CS2 on my PC at work, I encountered a few hiccups. In software, that’s to be expected. But now that I installed CS2 on my mac, I’m beginning to think that the people at Adobe are insane. Not only did I have to enter my Admin password nearly 20 times for all of the updates to install, but before I was able to get any of the updates, I received this message:
To be fair, Adobe was never known for their writing, just their creative products.
Posted by Seth at 08:56 PM | Comments (0)
September 16, 2006
Overheard During the Air Show
Today marked the first time in about two years that the Air Show has returned to Kansas City. Not to make waste of the day, I ventured over to the New Tragedies’ place and viewed some of the planes from their rooftop deck. While there, I was surrounded by some of the weirdest people I’ve ever listened to... fortunately, I was able to remember a majority of the best quotes uttered while the Blue Angels wrecked havoc overhead.
Dude 1: “Hell, I can’t tell if that’s a bird or a plane.”
Dude 2: “Or if it’s Superman!”
“Someone told me that aliens really fly the Blue Angel jets... which would make them not only the world’s best pilots, but the universe’s. But I don’t believe that, because that’s not too patriotic.”
“Do you think one of the pilots makes jokes about being everyone’s wingman?”
“Ooo! There’s number four, he’s my favorite! HE JUST WAIVED!!!”
“One time a Blue Angel flew into orbit and burned up on re-entry, just for the show.”
Dude 1: “Bet you didn’t know that those planes run on Jack Daniels.”
Dude 2: “What? That’s not possible. Why would they do that?”
Dude 1: “Because running on whiskey is 100% pure un-adulterated patriotism.”
Dude 2: “That makes no sense. Besides, it would cost a fortune.”
Dude 1:“Not really, the government can tax whiskey.”
“I read on Drudge that scientists are trying desperately to clone the Blue Angels so that each city has their own set and can have air shows every weekend – to boost patriotism.”
“I heard that for the finale, the Blue Angels do a solar eclipse of the sun. Yeah, they join in a circle and cover it up. That way people in Japan will be able to watch, too.”
Dude 1: “Wow, it’s getting windy all of a sudden.”
Dude 2: “Oh yeah, that’s the after effects from the Blue Angels flying. Remember that F5 that hit Oklahoma City? Well, that was right after the Blue Angels flew. The next week, they issued a press release saying that it was the fastest they’ve ever flown and that they’ll never do that again.”
I’m thinking about going back to watch it tomorrow, I hope those goobers aren’t there.
Posted by Seth at 05:11 PM | Comments (1)
September 14, 2006
Happy Happy, Joy Joy
Yup, it’s been a while since I posted. I started writing a post yesterday, but it just wasn’t flowing. Today, however, it’s flowing like water... in a pipe... that is hooked up to a sink... and the sink is full, so the water really has to get going – gravity and all. Seeing that my last post was such a downer, I’m bouncing back with things to be happy about.
Thing #1: Bruno Gets Published
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been a cartoonist off and on since college. I drew a strip for the Arkansas Traveler and then I did my own work-related strip for about a year and a half. While I enjoyed my cartooning, my friend Bruno wipes his butt with comics. If you haven’t read it yet, I seriously encourage you to go read K City.
K City is Bruno’s comic about K’s (the main character) dating adventures in Kansas City. They’re hilarious and spot on. Not only that, but they’re now published. If you have today’s Kansas City Star, check out the extra section (or click on the thumbnail to see the comic). From what I understand, he should have a strip in the Star each Thursday for the rest of the month. Congratulations Bruno, that’s truly awesome.
Thing #2: Wendy Begins New Chapter
Sometimes when love finds you, it’s not a gentle tap on the shoulder... sometimes it grips you. From the moment that Wendy and Henry met, they were gripped. Last weekend they were married in the rooftop gardens of Wendy’s apartment building. Wendy will not only spend her time with Henry, but also his two children from a previous marriage. And as if that wasn’t enough, rumor is there’s a third on the way!
To Hendy (that’s Henry and Wendy mixed into one name), congratulations x2 and I’m excited to see what the years ahead hold for your family.
Thing #3: This World Isn’t Manley Enough
No, that’s not a misspelling... it’s the last name of some of my good friends, who told me yesterday that they’re expecting their third child in the coming year! Their latest edition just turned a year not too long ago, so this was definitely a surprise to me. You guys rock, congratu-freakin-lations! Oh, and encourage Sam to write in her blog again.
Thing #4: Work Still Rawks
I’m still super pumped about working at SHS. In just the past month:
- We completed a non-traditional marketing campaign for UMB
- We launched a new job-focused site for Cargill
- I art directed my first commercial
- We launched a new web site for the Kansas Health Foundation, complete with a blog, widgets (yahoo and dashboard) and more
- ... and there’s more where that came from
Thing #5: Found Footage
This last January, Todd and I went on our yearly snowboarding expedition. This time while there, since it was just the two of us, we decided to make a ton of movies. Unfortunately, we got burned out on it, but we did make a few and Todd finally found them on his computer at home. Here they are:
- It Sounded Like A Good Idea: Knife
- It Sounded Like A Good Idea: Toothpaste
- It Sounded Like A Good Idea: Egg
- Fast Eddie
So it’s be happy time. When I count to three, I’ll snap my fanguhs and you’ll be happy. 1 — 2 — 3 — BE HAPPY!
Posted by Seth at 08:23 PM | Comments (7)
September 04, 2006
Croiky! Steve Irwin Croaks!
File this one under the “yeah, didn’t see THAT one coming” heading... Steve Irwin – the infamous Crocodile Hunter – is no longer among the living. He was filming an underwater documentary and a stingray barb caught him in the chest (stingray barbs can be over two inches long, and yes, they’re poisonous). He was pronounced dead at the scene.
This man defied every logical notion I had in my body on a daily basis... walk in a swamp with a baby croc to find it’s mother... tip toe around a den of rattle snakes... hunt the world’s ten most deadliest snakes – for fun.
I want to say that I’m shocked that he’s dead. Not because he was legally insane, but because his work finally caught up with him.
I’ll give him this, though, he died doing what he absolutely loved. That’s awesome.
Posted by Seth at 08:11 AM | Comments (2)