On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
--Richard Feynman
Yep, I predict you'll get way more ratings just reposting something than writing new stuff. We who write should just go on a cut&paste holiday until the cover starts featuring new material. What's the point of writing stuff and not having it featured? (Good choice of video, by the way—don't mean to knock that. But it can be gotten many other places and Open Salon will never make a name for itself as “The Place to Find YouTube re-posts.”)
Is this aimed at me? Let me advocate a little while here, for quality cut and paste. It's not for the lazy, stupid, or unqualified.
Simply put, my cut and paste has gotten more support than killing myself writing three act plays and short stories and recipes and poetry and lyrics which get all of 3 ratings and two comments.
Screw that, when someone else can spray out a cat anecdote or a rambling, fact free diatribe and gets the automatic EP, Home page, and 40 ratings!
I must be stupid, though. I'm not saving any time. It's been taking the same two hours to decide what's good and right out of the millions of pages of crap that's hanging around out there.
But that's ok, I'm not wasting those two or three hours writing my best stuff, just to get less feedback than a thousand word personal anecdote about winding up in the same room with a celebrity two years ago, or hiking through a state park.
Home page? Ha! Editor's picks? Ho! I might as well hang out in a Hollywood bar and get drunk assed drunk, waiting to be discovered. There's one problem with that, though. I don't need to get discovered. I feel sorry for anyone who came here with the idea that they'd get discovered.
And when my security software isn't finding and killing Google's spyware, I'm scouring the web for more and more finds to cut and paste!
Meanwhile, my good shit is also going to other sites where the views are rising and where it all gets to people who read for the sheer pleasure of reading, not the sad interpersonal and cutthroat politics of writing for 100 stinking views a day.
Now let me go and work on my imaginary dinner conversation between Putin, Gorbachev, and Biggie Smalls. I have to find some photobucket pictures to cut and paste into there.
Cut and paste lives on! But bad writing and art Collage can die!
Easy, there, Michael. I sent the EMTs home early tonight.
Rich, I wish I could. At least I took the night off from here.
Zuma, no, this wasn't aimed at anybody. But I do like your rant and I do enjoy your stuff. And as for views? We don't need no stinking views! Oh, wait a minute, yes we do!
Umbrella, wouldn't that be nice if it were so? Let me know how that works out fer ya!
Coyote: I'm a little sensitive right now, since I HAVE been cutting and pasting a lot! Ha!
I know that you're talking about those who think that they will make big bucks with adsense by clogging up our "recent posts" with nonsense.
Ha! Have you seen your adsense reports lately? It's a financial bloodbath, so they will reap the disappointing rewards of their greed. Justice will be had.
I just hope that I gave you an extra view or two, Coyote.
Zuma, no worries. I get a little sensitive when I've worked long and hard on something just to have it overlooked. But I'm really looking forward to your imagined dinner conversation between Putin, Gorbachev, and Biggie Smalls.
As for my AdSense report . . . please don't go there, my friend.
"Roommates" will definitely be measured by the re-runs of "Friends”. Remember, Friends had Chandler Bing; the know it all 'Mr. Responsibility'; who was always there with the answer or giving words of wisdom. "Roommates" has Google and we all know that Google is a giant in search engines; who is there to help find everything.
Now that Microsoft has launched "Bing" as the new search engine, viewers of “Roommates” may go back and forth to compare who is more likeable, Chandler Bing or Google.
We will only know when we see the weekly Nielson Ratings & the viewer count on YouTube.
Thanks for posting this entertaining, yet goofy YouTube clip.
COS – my ‘grassy knoll’ theory is based on this fact:
Abraham Zapruder was waiting on the grassy knoll to film the presidential motorcade driving through Delley Plaza… not many know this, but he was a master at playing the game Clue… so I think Professor Plum wanted to shot Colonel Mustard for having an affair with Miss Scarlet and the professor’s shots went astray and hit the presidential limousine. And the rest is history!
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I think I'm choking...............whew, that was a close one.
Simply put, my cut and paste has gotten more support than killing myself writing three act plays and short stories and recipes and poetry and lyrics which get all of 3 ratings and two comments.
Screw that, when someone else can spray out a cat anecdote or a rambling, fact free diatribe and gets the automatic EP, Home page, and 40 ratings!
I must be stupid, though. I'm not saving any time. It's been taking the same two hours to decide what's good and right out of the millions of pages of crap that's hanging around out there.
But that's ok, I'm not wasting those two or three hours writing my best stuff, just to get less feedback than a thousand word personal anecdote about winding up in the same room with a celebrity two years ago, or hiking through a state park.
Home page? Ha! Editor's picks? Ho! I might as well hang out in a Hollywood bar and get drunk assed drunk, waiting to be discovered. There's one problem with that, though. I don't need to get discovered. I feel sorry for anyone who came here with the idea that they'd get discovered.
And when my security software isn't finding and killing Google's spyware, I'm scouring the web for more and more finds to cut and paste!
Meanwhile, my good shit is also going to other sites where the views are rising and where it all gets to people who read for the sheer pleasure of reading, not the sad interpersonal and cutthroat politics of writing for 100 stinking views a day.
Now let me go and work on my imaginary dinner conversation between Putin, Gorbachev, and Biggie Smalls. I have to find some photobucket pictures to cut and paste into there.
Cut and paste lives on! But bad writing and art Collage can die!
Mwahahahaha!
Signed,
The Mad Cutter and Paster
Rich, I wish I could. At least I took the night off from here.
Zuma, no, this wasn't aimed at anybody. But I do like your rant and I do enjoy your stuff. And as for views? We don't need no stinking views! Oh, wait a minute, yes we do!
Umbrella, wouldn't that be nice if it were so? Let me know how that works out fer ya!
I know that you're talking about those who think that they will make big bucks with adsense by clogging up our "recent posts" with nonsense.
Ha! Have you seen your adsense reports lately? It's a financial bloodbath, so they will reap the disappointing rewards of their greed. Justice will be had.
I just hope that I gave you an extra view or two, Coyote.
As for my AdSense report . . . please don't go there, my friend.
Now that Microsoft has launched "Bing" as the new search engine, viewers of “Roommates” may go back and forth to compare who is more likeable, Chandler Bing or Google.
We will only know when we see the weekly Nielson Ratings & the viewer count on YouTube.
Thanks for posting this entertaining, yet goofy YouTube clip.
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Oooo, designanator, I feel downright virtuous now. Perhaps I should eschew anything new and original from now on!
Abraham Zapruder was waiting on the grassy knoll to film the presidential motorcade driving through Delley Plaza… not many know this, but he was a master at playing the game Clue… so I think Professor Plum wanted to shot Colonel Mustard for having an affair with Miss Scarlet and the professor’s shots went astray and hit the presidential limousine. And the rest is history!