phil has elevated the game like Mile High Stadium with 12 comments.
beth is in Striking Distance like Bruce Willis & boats with 11.
Joe is in your face like your own skull with 8.
Tiffany! has the capabilities to pay the utilities with 8.
prof. fancy pants has 5 and is intense like the circus.
DirtyDanSin has 4 and is on fire like a pile of tires.
jon has 3 comments and needs to raise the stakes like when the camping trip is over.
Stace has 2 & needs work like me before I got hired.
Nick has a giant stack of G.I. Joe File Cards that he cut from the backs of action figure packages when he was a kid in the Eighties. Jake thought it would be fun to read through the cards, talk about whatever comes up and record those conversations for a series of short-length podcasts. G.I. Joe provides the framework each episode, but a variety of topics spring forth.
In this episode Nick, Jake and Pete discuss The Fridge.
If you want to read along, click on the File Card to see it bigger.
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phil
// May 13, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Nick & Pete, I agree with you about Sweetness or Mike Ditka. The Fridge would be a horrible personal trainer. Jake, you earn a no-prize for your explanation. The Cobra version of the fridge would not be Canseco, I think it would be Bill Romanowski.
Peter, you and Jake both seem to have a problem with the GI Joe team’s equipment being supplied by the low-bidder.
Low-bidder means that if one supplier says they can deliver an item that meets specs for $15 and another supplier says that they will deliver the same item for $10, the military has to buy the cheaper one. The bids are all a matter of public record so there won’t be any backroom deals cut.
If you have no-bid contracts you end up with much more corruption and waste.
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Mikel
// May 13, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Thanks guys. I was waiting for this one.
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c lo
// May 13, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I really need to start listening to these more often.
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Lauren B.
// May 14, 2009 at 1:45 pm
When i was little i thought it was sweet that Refrigerator Perry and i have the same birthday. This is, sadly, less thrilling to me now.
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phil
// May 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I like when Pete says “GI Joe diagesis”. I have no interest in GI Joe, but I like the thought you guys put into this.
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Joe
// May 14, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I wish I did not receive a tweet, a facebook share and an email about this post. It would make me want to listen to it more.
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jake
// May 14, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I wish I had more supportive friends, but you don’t hear me complaining.
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Joe
// May 14, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Sorry dude, I am anti-shart.
Jesus invented rss readers already, the manual version should only be used in the exceptional case, like if you find something especially sweet preferably that you didn’t make yourself.
That is just my opinion natch but using the internet is an exercise in finding some signal amongst all of the noise. Blasting the effbook and twitard for posts moves it from the signal pole toward the noise pole more with each blast.
How much more would car alarms be effective if they only went off when the car was broken into?
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phil
// May 14, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I feel you and don’t feel you simultaneously Joe. Just like Jesus invented RSS feeds, his father, the holy spirit, invented ignore options, to tune out all the noise you get tired of.
If you hear about it 3x then you are 3x Jake’s friend, some people are only 2x Jake’s friend and think how horrible that must be.
Promotion of veryserious.org is really tricky. I am really shy about pushing it too hard. I hate getting 100 emails from someone about some project I don’t care about and don’t want to be that guy.
On the other hand I put work into vs.org and certainly don’t want to keep it a secret (I did put a ‘share this on facebook’ button up after all). I think veryserious.org would be more fun if we had more readers, cause that would mean more comments. Also it’s a further step towards me making tens of dollars off of google ads, keeping them all for myself and moving to Mexico.
Does anyone else have an opinion about how hard it is acceptable to push? Rick Ross said to push it to the limit, but where is the limit?
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phil
// May 14, 2009 at 6:53 pm
To be clear, Joe, I agree with you and am glad you commented cause it gives us the chance to talk about it.
I’m against facebook-flooding (multiple posts a day) and I figured it might annoy people. Joe’s comment makes me think I was right.
But if we want to increase traffic here, and don’t want to flood facebook, we need another route. I don’t want to be Mr. “No No No”.
The ways that I want to promote this website are much more crass and distasteful to the point where they would make facebook-flooding look like a funeral procession, believe me. For example I figured we could randomly insert porn star’s names into all the URL’s for search engine purposes.
The message board is broken right now, when I fix it we can discuss this stuff there.
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Joe
// May 14, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Ok sounds cool Phil. Until then I will just do what I normally do: Answer questions as comments in facebook attached to his facebook posts rather than answer them here.
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Joe
// May 14, 2009 at 7:35 pm
But I regret getting in the middle of the lovers quarrel you two are having.
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peteg
// May 15, 2009 at 11:11 am
Look into some of the facebook integration for WordPress that’s out there. It allows a FB user to login at a WP site, and have thier comments appear both on their FB wall and on the WP site. It’s cool. I played around with it in January for a another site that I run, and it was kinda buggy at that point, but I am sure it has improved greatly in the past 5 months. There are several options, but there is a actual Facebook engineer that made a plugin for WP; that’s the plugin you want.
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peteg
// May 15, 2009 at 11:17 am
PS– I think it’s clear from some the new commenters that Facebook is a very effective way to promote this site, much more effective than RSS.
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