The Algorithm

Viral Marketing

This is the concept of creating curiosity in people about an ad so that they talk about it to their friends, as with superbowl commercials. A lot of the "Modernist" (read: Abstract {read: Stupid}) ads are viral. XKCD recently pointed me at another, about "The Algorithm". Their suspicion was that it was for Ask.com. Seen on bilboards in New York City:

The algorithm consistently finds Jesus.
The algorithm killed Jeeves.
The algorithm is banned in China.
The algorithm is from Jersey.

One reply to that particular blogpost noted a number of other things that "The Algorithm" Could do. "The algorithm makes me a sandwich", "The algorithm constantly finds velociraptors". A few of mine: "The algorithm fights kittens and wins most of the time", "The algorithm can find it's way out of an empty paper bag", "The algorithm does not fear Chuck Norris". What have you got?

Terms of Endearment

Thanks greatly to a couple of recent occurrences, I’ve come up with a new term – DLO. It stands for Date-Like Occurrence. The term refers to hanging out with a person of the opposite gender (or not, depending on the user) in a situation that could be considered a date, but the term-user and partner are not per-se dating. Related Terms:

HDLO – Heavy Date-Like Object. Ends VERY well
EDLO – Expensive Date-Like Object. A concert, or similar expensive effort.

Feel free to submit more as they become relevant or upon discovery, whichever is less applicable.

Mission Statement

We, the colonies, estates, farms and panstellar imperial regencies under the jurisdiction of Ted, do hereby state our mission in this strange place to be…

- To experiment in high-velocity solid, liquid and gel-type explosives so as to further our own collective knowledge and entertainment;

- To eradicate the threat of legal language in this nation, and anywhere else it may prevail so as to decrease confusion and put smiles back on children’s faces;

- To travel at speeds equal to or greater than C (3.0 x 10^8 meters per second) so that, while infinitely luminescent, I am also of infinite mass and can claim at that time to be (and at later times to have been) the ultimate lardass;

- To provide a general danger to the sanity of those I interact with, for their general betterment, or possibly not.

TRH