Just checking a message on facebook and saw the this ad. Initially it struck me as deeply absurd but I’m coming around to the idea that she might be on to something. A lot of people don’t really realize that if you want to do something difficult you can save yourself a lot of time and ensure success by simply asking people that have already done it. If you’re nice, generally grateful and ask interesting questions the people you ask will become mentors. It’s seems a lot of people would rather puzzle through a process the long and hard way while risking failure than simply doing things the easy way. Which is cool I guess but not necessarily smart or useful most of the time. Finding mentors is largely a numbers game so it makes a lot of sense that she just placed a facebook ad.

The interesting part is that the Ad links to her blog instead of some way to contact her. I did a facebook search and found 37 people named leslie bradshaw. I sleuthed around on her blog until I found enough info about her to do a relevant facebook search and send a query about the success of her campaign + advice on how she can get a better response. {have the ad link to the about page on her blog, place her email at the top of the page and then add a direct link to her facebook profile. I am continually baffled by people who don’t understand that making a task even marginally more difficult will substantially reduce it’s possible success. but whatever, it keeps me employed}

My view is that if you don’t have any mentors you’re probably not doing anything hard. Heads up, this is a possible sign that you are stagnating and becoming lame.

The next person to send me an evite invitation will get slapped. And this should be glaringly self evident but: evites make everyone (not just me) want to cry while vomiting. please, please stop.

use facebook instead. people who don’t use facebook, you are like those people 5 years ago who thought cell phones and email were stupid. That’s fine if you want to live in the 90’s, here’s some hyper colors and a bell biv devoe compact disc hopefully you’ll hear about the party with awesome people via word of mouth.

My olde chum Adam Fangsrud just sent me word of an excellent dubstep mix called Devotional Dubz by Grievious Angel. Download it here from the Blackdown Soundboy blog if that sort of thing does the stuff for you. But the thing that I really love is the way the tracklisting is setup, excerpted here for your (but especially my) usability pleasure.

Look, it lists the times the tracks start!! Holy shit. Rather than this:

yes! yes! see? COUPLED INDICATORS MUST BE RELEVANT!! You see, knowing how many tracks on a mix is largely irrelevant. But knowing when tracks start without having to count the number of tracks is very important IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE NAME OF THE TRACK YOU”RE LISTENING TO. ie the whole damn point of a listing of tracks.

++ I wrote this in an airport while it was still relevant but then couldn’t get wireless access to post. ++

Personally, I just can’t bring myself to care about sports in general, but the olympics specifically. I mean, it’s certainly impressive that a fucking dolphin disguised as a man won 8 gold medals but I don’t think it’s really worth more than a passing nod of recognition. I’m sure this is an unpopular opinion but usually the ceaseless pandering commercialism of the olympics is just the regular tedium of televised spectator sports on overdrive. Today at the airport I saw a headline that a famous chinese runner hurt himself and that he will now lose millions worth of endorsements.

First, the idea of a celebrity endorsement is a goddamn psychological trick employed by advertising hacks. Companies that use it should be shunned. It is of zero bearing on the quality of the product that the world curling champion likes the new brand of swiffers. And anyone seeing it should know that any meathead would endorse anything for a million dollars. That this transparent fraud is somehow seen as persuasive is deeply troubling to me.

Second, the corruption of pure sport for “endorsements” is disturbing. Whatever, I could rant about this for a while.

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When will companies realize that naming their entire product lines using an externally random* string of numbers and letters is not a good idea.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, just look at printers (or anything!)

• HP Photosmart Pro B9180 Photo Printer
• Canon Pixma Pro9500
• HP Officejet Pro K5400dtn Color Printer
• Xerox Phaser 6360DN
• Canon Pixma Pro9000

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1. Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1018 Printer
2. Canon PIXMAâ„¢ MP600 All-In-One InkJet Printer

*externally random is a term that I made up. It refers to something that seems to make no sense from an outside perspective. A good and annoyingly frequent example is using acronyms without defining what they refer to first. these acronyms *have* a meaning but to the outside observer they are as good as random. in short: not effective.

Fax Machines: What the fuck!?! Seriously, it is 200fucking7 have you people even heard of email? yeah, it’s the next killer app. check it out.