Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Work in progress...?

Thought just suddenly struck me as interesting that so many of us try to make sure our blog posts are all clean and polished before we ever hit the "Publish" button.
It would be kind of fun to do a "work in progress" post. Maybe post the 1st draft, get comments, post a second draft a few days later and leave the original post online, so people can see how things have progressed.

Reminds me of a thought I had a while back: in this day and age, you could actually create a version of MS Word that would track all of your keystrokes as you type, and then allow you to play it back as a movie. (I know there already are such programs. I've used a couple of them.)

Wouldn't it be cool (or at least interesting) to WATCH J.K. Rowling typing up one of the Harry Potter novels? (for example)  You could see everything in real time: wait, she skipped to chapter 3, changed a couple lines, went back to do some more work on chapter 1... started to type, "snow storm" but then backspaced over it and typed, "blizzard" instead...

Would probably also give most authors UNBELIEVABLE writers block. If it's nerve-wracking knowing that millions of people will be able to read the gibberish that comes out of your brain even after you've editted it 5 times, it would be debilitating to imagine them watching your every typo. ["Heh, look at that smuck, can't even spell 'debilatating' and look where he put those commas!! What a moron!" :) ]

Just thinking.
--JBB

Friday, June 7, 2013

Coke Ads!?

[Ummm, the following is full of "swear words".  If that bothers you, then just... well... Don't read it?  Maybe? Or would that make too much sense?  Thanks.]

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Drinking Coke makes you feel like your pockets are full of WHAT!??
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN??!

And that picture is so F-ing confusing anyway!  I usually only glance at it before I turn away in disgust and now I have this jumbled crap image of a diseased rat riding on top of the body of a decomposing groundhog through a sewer system running through my brain! (No! that can NOT be what I saw... can it??)

And that other one!
If you made a list of all the ingredients in Diet Coke and erased that list and shoved it up your ass so hard that it came out through your eyeballs!... it would Really FUCKING HURT!!
No, wait, that can't be what he said that time either...  I must have heard that wrong... maybe?

Point being that if you took that list and used it to perform a lobotomy on yourself, it would make AT LEAST as much sense as this ad does!


Yo, Diet Coke people, whoever came up with this ad campaign is NOT your friend! Alright?
I actually LIKE Diet Coke, and did I avoid buying a case of it the last time I was at CostCo? YOU BETCHA! 

Was it memorable? SURE.
Did it help your sales?  Not around here it didn't!

--JBB

This is only a test

So, can I make this visible from my Google Site?
And if I can, can I make the labels usable/sortable... do we have a Widget for that?

--JBB