I am number 36...

my eventual goal is to beat Joseph Brodsky, and I figure that I can do it considering I use the internet quite a bit more than he does.

I think that the first step is for someone to write an article about me for wikipedia.

come on you aspiring biographers, I know you are out there!!!

UPDATE:

Actually, wait a second. Don't do that. Apparently wikipedia frowns upon people being promoted by using their system. I think that raising a google ranking is probably a pretty good example of promotion.

tonight I just discovered a phantom post. I assume that my readers already know about del.icio.us (but in case you don't, it is a nice method of increasing your short term memory, or maybe not; read on faithful reader) but anyways, I went to my list tonight and discovered something that I have no memory of linking to. I would like to think that it was some voodoo demons that got inside my compy while my internet access was spotty earlier tonight, but I know that gibsonesque fatasies like that are probably a little far fetched.

even better would be some epic 2014 type stuff (you know, link, custom tailored news to the point where the recipient is so happy about the content that they no longer care about the source.)

the most likely scenario is that I just linked it myself and forgot about it. Maybe this is some type of del.icio.us critical mass (I have been trying to reach it recently by posting every little thing that I find even remotely interesting). The contents of the post are this link... and the word AWESOME!!!

and that it is. a really cool project that I think I would care about if I were to read the site, but I guess because I have it linked I will just do that later.

:)

UPDATE: Apparently I was logged into a school computer and eli clicked the "post to delicious" link on it, and it happend to be something that I was interested in. No grand conspiracy. maybe next time.

Continuing the thread of ideas that I might be able to develop is an extension for delicious.

I think that one of the major missing features is the ability to grab stuff that existed in the long tail realm. The only current solution for this is to constantly scrub the links of people that you cared about, or to just find the websites on your own.

It would be a "kind of popular" tag, which would grab the links that had only been posted by 7 other people. Once a page had been deemed worth the time of seven, than it would be passed on to me only if it met one other condition, which is that it got no more links to it for the next three days (to lower meme passthrough potential).

Another way to solve the problem would be to check for tags that only had a very low number of posts to them (under 50) yet were crossposted with things that you cared about.


links to come.

my dad sent me this response to my alarm clock idea... I think that it is a good one.

Actually the solution to the alarm clock problem is to have it shut off only by a key that is in the class room where the first class to be attended is. The Alarm Clock should be attached to the student permanently (Handcuffs or the equivalent). That will insure that the student gets to class on time. Alarm ringing all the way to class. Well Actually chaining the shut off key outside the dormitory door or somewhere down the street may be equally as effective. But I can imagine that some students might show up at class in pajamas, turn off the alarm clock,and then return home to sleep.

BRILLIANT!

a picture of the difficult clock for those that need a visual help.

click on the image for a larger version