When you receive unemployment benefits, they should also include a little box of pilfered binder clips and dry erase markers—just to maintain a lifestyle, y’know. ❥
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Who says America doesn’t care about its children? I just saw an ad and get this: both Cocoa Pebbles AND Fruity Pebbles have a new crunch. C’mon, we’re just givin‘ away crunch tech to kids. We love ‘em!
Anagram Puzzle
Take these nine letters
A B D E I I L R S
and rearrange them into words of the given length based on the clues below.
So the answer to the first is a seven letter word and then a two letter word. The answer to the next uses the same nine letters, but the answer is three words of length 1, 3, and 5, and the order matters.
Make sense? Have at it! DON’T peak at the footnotes (answers)!
Mock-worthy sales pitch: 7,2 1
What Stormy might say: 1,3,5 2
Desert land offer: 6,3 3
Put down cheeses: 4,5 4
Point out flood tools: 2,7 5
What a knight vampire might say: 1,3,5 6
Pacific Rim, Dark Tower star: 5,4 7
Tony west coast bad mouthing: 3,3,3 8
Women kid! : 6,3 9
Bonus! - Add one letter for a 10 letter anagram, the clue: Bawdy fun: 10 10
[ edit: I had a clue badly wrong. Fixed. Y’all get more time to solve! ]
[ edit: I added two more clues and a bonus! I’ll post the answer in reply here. ]
[ edit: I changed things around a bit and gave the 9 letters to get you started. ]
Watch OUT, here come the answers… ❥
Y’ever twist your arm trying to pat yourself on the back? Or taught someone a lesson by learning it right in front of them? Or told yourself something in confidence but then spilled the beans? Okay, so this universe does have a sense of humour, right?
We see the same stupid, greed-head, get my boat this quarter thinking, repeated in variations.
EARLY .COM
It’s the clicks, that’s where the money is. Count the clicks. We have more clicks. Charge more for ads. Run ads about clicks.
LATER…
It’s the links, that’s where the money is. More links to your links. We have more links. Charge more for ads. Run ads about links.
STILL LATER…
It’s the likes and the boosts, that’s where the money is. Count the likes and the boosts. We have more. Charge more for ads. Run ads about who likes who and who boosts who.
LATELY…
Maybe ai could click things, and link things, and like things, and boost things for us. Then people can vote on how good of a job the ai are doing, clicking and linking and liking and boosting. That’s where the money is. Charge more for ads. Ads about which are the best ais!
I think the reason so many of us in the language business are rightly worried about fAI (fake AI, aka Language Thingies) is because they can replace us. Not you, you’re special, but all those other talentless jokers—where’s that fork, cuz they’re done.
I do take some solace in the fact that this infatuation with fAI productivity will generate an information landscape with ever increasing amounts of bullshit. This will promote EVERYONE to the role of Quality Assurance Analyst in some sense, whether they want to be one or not. And with that promotion comes all the demands of resilience to tedium and arcane expertise that the role requires. Which will be discovered to be more difficult to fake than many had assumed. And so a new value proposition comes into view: “Can you tell me if that is worth the time?” rather than “Can you write something that is worth the time?”. Essentially, an editor, rather than a writer; oh, and a relevance ninja, and a fact ax, and…
If you must establish the contra-position, that you are in fact an invested sports buff, simply claim “If more of you understood the icing rule, we would all be better off!” with enough confidence to keep everyone nodding rather than asking what the hell you mean.
Nothing says 70’s movie like a P.E. teacher smoking, except everything else in Carrie. I forgot the opening titles are essentially soft-porn—but no surprise, considering the 70’s, even cinema, was pretty gritty. The real horror? Remove her telekinetic powers and now it’s a Dateline episode.
❡ One last thing on Carrie - thinking that telekinetic power is actually a manifestation of satan’s power is a common mistake, just read the papers! Which makes the smoking gym teacher the real culprit here in my book—perhaps apart from DePalma’s sweaty lens. ← snuck a zinger in!
Well…sure, you can take an umbrella into the shower with you, but…uh…maybe explain again what you mean by dry?
Just Noticing
I’m just noticing that a lot of my ground truth on matters internetty is based on the proposition that the internet is on a continuum with other means of individual creative expression; internet, tv, movies, radio…(skip ahead, brother)…live voice, our bodies. And that it is also this way with tools of individual education, certainly. But (ding!) others may see the thing differently. Perhaps as primarily a token game platform, or a herding mechanism.