the letter “Q” is nearly always followed by the letter “U” (statistically speaking that is all the goddamn time), it makes more sense to just drop the u and teach our children to pronounce the letter q like “kwuh.”

quality will now be qality.
quiet will now be qiet.

seriously, why use two letters when it makes more sense to use one?

if you’re dumb and have trouble seeing the obvious superiority of this system, take a qick look at the wikipedia page on List of English words containing Q not followed by U. See? Those words are almost all worthless, unless you’re trying to transliterate arabic (something i know all of you do every fucking day). If you are transliterating arabic you should really just be using a k instead of qu or just q. qabob? no, it’s kabob, duh.

on a related note, these are my four favorite highest scoring scrabble words. Yes, in my mind these things are directly related but you know what? fuck it, i’m not even going to explain why.

ZYMURGY 75 pts (beer makin)
SQUIFFY 75 pts (deeerunk)
ZOMBIFY 76 pts
MUZJIKS 79 pts (russian peasants)

I often feel isolated because it seems like I’m the only person who sees something as dangerously hilarious. I then post these things in my blog in the hopes that at least christina will think they are funny. For instance, I’ve been chuckling about this all fucking day. {go meta, just a little bit}

Mostly toys, but still.

Okay, this is how the next president could sell single payer healthcare to the nation.

Plan: Cut Taxes.
Press: How would you do it?
Candidate: Single Payer healthcare. We could cover everyone for less money than we’re currently spending. I’d put the difference right back in your pocket.

sheeeeit, maybe I should get back into the wordsmith game.
{granted this requires some accounting creativity}

There are some holidays that should have a rolling date rather than a specific one. For Example: Halloween. People are expected to dress up in elaborate costumes and celebrate the dead with sugar and alcohol on a
wednesday night? that’s hallowbullshit. Halloween should clearly be on the last friday of october. come on people, get it together.

From the netflix get a job with us page.

# Rules annoy us
Rules inhibit creativity and entrepreneurship, leading to a lack of innovation. Over time this leads a company to being both less fun and less successful.

Instead of adding rules as we grow, our solution to increased complexity is to increase talent density. Great people make great judgment calls, despite ambiguity.

We believe in freedom and responsibility, not rules.

For example, our vacation policy for salaried employees is “take some” - there is no limit on vacation as long you get your work done. Similarly, our travel expense policy is “travel as you would on your own nickel.” That’s it. No soul-sapping policy manuals for us. In five years as public company, growing from $100m to $1 billion in revenue, our commitment to freedom and responsibility has only grown.

We have found that by avoiding rules we can better attract the creative mavericks that drive innovation, and our business is all about innovation. We are mitigating the big risk technology companies face (obsolescence), by taking on small risks (running without rules).

Our only absolute rule is integrity, and violations almost always result in termination.

It’s time for the latest edition of the It List/Shit List

::It List::
Saturday, Mint Newman O’s, indian food (big up viks chaat house in berkeley!!), ron paul - for introducing a bill to reinstate habeas corpus and banning torture, loud music, Getting Things Done by David Allen

::Shit List::
Pants with shallow pockets so the stuff in them falls out when you sit down…wtf?, ron paul - for voting no on schip {what a douche}, evites, urinals that splash piss back on you no matter what angle you adjust to.

stealing is so cool, even and especially when you’re 70 years old

Man pilfered a lot of gas, detectives say

on an unrelated note, i am currently fermenting apple cider AND using lye to melt the aluminum seat post in my bike (these two chemical reactions are not taking places together, however)

It’s as if he’s saying “You want some of this?? Yeah I got it right here!”

I’m not a fan of che, he’s a stalinist from what I can tell. Plus, I’m going to side with all the other people tired of 1st year college students wearing revolutionary tshirts rather than actually being revolutionary. Furthermore, I don’t support killing people, ever. I’m more of an Zapatista Army of National Liberation man myself.

Yeah, that EZLN article on wikipedia is pretty good.

i took these photos in june and july of this year (2007) in a few different places in the US. i hope you enjoy them.

You probably know that RadioHead just released a new album that people can pay whatever they want for. You can check that out on the RadioHead.com website. This is what I call a “reality based approach.”

In reality, we have to understand that it’s very difficult to control what people do. Since the album is going to be downloaded for free on the internet anyway a reality based approach is to make it easy for people to give you money.

This has been a pretty solid success. A recent new york times article reports that the average sale price is $8. The same article also talks about how economists are baffled that people would pay anything at all, if they don’t have to.

ummm, just to be clear, people who don’t understand tipping are autistic douchebags.

Also, a lot of people are heralding this as the death of the music industry. I doubt it, but is anyone really surprised that both fans and artists are eager to get away from and industry that’s been a total dick?

Here’s another example:

…duh.

also, duh. Here’s an example of the Reality Approach from the same article

Also, people are going

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

Many of you know that I love hard hitting, inside the beltway political news but I also love pictures of baby animals.

Adrian: Describe the sea in one word.
Pierre: endless
Me: wet. But if I had more than one word I would have said “smells like fish”
….
Adrian: That’s how you’re supposed to feel about love.

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Here’s another good one.

I found one on ebay for $250

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