hi
arnold again
what a butthead o docker has been lately
he runs around the office here like a blogger without a head with no time to work on his blog
and then he spends what spare time he does have working out the answers to the contests that have been showing up on other bloggers blogs
it seems to be the latest trend in blogging
quotation contests photo contests old movie contests
what is he trying to prove anyway
it s not like it used to be when smart people were the ones with all of the answers in their heads
today no one has any answers in their heads
the answers are all on google and you try to make yourself look smart by outgoogling other googlers
is that smart
or is that being a butthead
don t get me wrong
google can be a wonderful thing
it makes it easy to track down a lot of stuff that it used to take forever to track down
and the more you google the more you know how to google
but knowing a lot of facts has never really been a sign of smart
does anyone remember cliff clavin
if you don t you could find him on google
what a butthead
sometimes o docker reminds me of cliff clavin
i think smart has always been what you do with the facts that you have
be those facts in a book in your head or on google
knowing which facts are the important ones has always taken some smarts
and stringing the right facts together so that they make sense and help you find your way through life has always been a job for smart people
uh oh here he comes again
what is it tonight
where is this beach
what is this boat
who put the bomp
in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
contests are a lot of fun but isn t it smart to just have fun with them
and not mistake winning a googling contest for being smart
most cockroaches know that
arnold
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I love how Ratzenberger, the actor who played Cliff, said that Cliff would describe himself as the "Winged nut that holds western civilization together" but Ratzenberger himself described Cliff simply as "A winged nut."
ReplyDeleteThat was a great show.
I have no idea who Cliff Claven and Ratzenberger are. You two are making me feel dumb. I'm sure I could find out on the Google but you are telling me that's dumb too.
ReplyDeleteI agree that solving a puzzle in in one Google search doesn't require much intelligence. But using the Internet to discover information which helps solve more complex problems is a skill which is important these days, and may be a kinds of "smarts" that is worthy of admiration. Maybe I should invent puzzles and quizzes that use that skill.
Anyway it's Clavin, not Claven. If Arnold had used the Google he would have known that.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Arnold. Humans are a curious species who gauge their intelligence by how much they know about "programss" on a mind control device called television which is designed to make them buy stuff they don't need and believe a paradigm that is against their own self interest.
ReplyDeleteWhen in doubt, they resort to a database of dubious and outright bogus information and uncritically accept whatever is presented there as "truth".
Insects will no doubt inherit the earth.
Soon.
Word Verif: queshi - a Mexican form of sushi which adds cheese.
There's only one sushi roll that contains cheese, Norm, and that's the Philadelphia roll.
ReplyDeleteBeer makes you smarter.
Do I win a hat?
No hat, Baydog.
ReplyDeleteBut I do have a drum roll for you.
Here is a contest for you Arnold. What do the Cheers Pub and the Riverside South site on Canary Wharf have in common?
ReplyDeleteVerification word cidea: alcoholic drink that makes you even smarter than beer.
I suppose you could have a "Drum", or Redfish roll, but it is most often blackened "Cajun Style", and served with sauce Remoulade.
ReplyDeletei think using the google may not be smart or dumb tillerman
ReplyDeleteit is what we make of it
do we try to pass ourselves off as possessing all of its knowledge
or do we fess up
personally i don t think the google is very smart at all
if i ask it to tell me anything it has 4 389 576 261 answers and it is left to me to decide which of those is right or if any is right
and have you ever tried reading through 4 389 576 261 answers
in the end i am still the one who has to figure out if the answers are any good or not
in the words of the famous french philospher rene descartes
it is what it is
arnold
Has that pesky cockroach been bothering my readers again and making me look like a bozo?
ReplyDeleteWell, OK, maybe I do the bozo part all by myself.
Thanks for pointing out Arnold's spelling typo, Tillerman - which I've now corrected. Arnold can blog only while I'm not around, so he doesn't check things over as carefully as I do.
I, of course, would never make a misteak like that.
jp winged nut or not i think western civilization needs something to hold it together
ReplyDeleteor at the very least to make it more civilized
panda thanks for your support
inheriting the earth could end up being a mixed bag for me
with all of my relatives
going through probate will probably be a nightmare
katey and nick mostly nick
wow your name sure is an earful
i m working on your puzzle now but i am not as into puzzles as o docker
even if i win
a hat won t do me much good
arnold
Did you send in for your sticker? Since we love Google (I was the one dumb person who did not to work for them. I let Alta Vista wine and dine me. Damn it, I could be sitting on the beach at Cabarete...back to our story), do a search on Pressure Drop. Hopefully, we haven't run out of stickers.
ReplyDeleteI've seemed to misplaced my hat, I better cut back on the bourbon.
P.S. I like these contests.
P.P.S. Goodnight, Baydog. (whatever)
I love these contests, too, Joe.
ReplyDeleteI spend way too much time trying to figure them out. My eyes are bloodshot and my knees are starting to shake.
The cockroach is just looking out for his own welfare. If I'm out sick for a few days, he goes hungry.
katey and nick mostly nick - Agree with Arnold that your name is a mouthful, and in need of some punctuation, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteIn answer to your contest question: vertical iron bars?
WV: nesses - as in, why are these WFs nessesary?
Mojo, Arnold can't reach the shift key!!! I think you need a Utah Vacation.
ReplyDeleteI was referring to katey and nick, Baydog.
ReplyDeleteAre they las cucaracha as well?
Going skiing next week!!
WV: inged - as in w[ ] nut
O Docker - You humans really amuse me.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I find your observations to be so... anthropomorphous?
Do you really think that Arnold will go hungry if you should "fall sick"(??) for a few days?
Give us some credit, pal.
If his persecuted species (and mine) relied upon the kindness of strangers (ref. B. DuBois) to survive, we wouldn't be inheriting the earth, would we?
As for the google, it's actually quite useful for ordering in.
Where do you think that General Tso's chicken we left on your desk came from?
Mojo, I think Arnold has enough work in typing that he has chosen to forego punctuation and capitalization.
ReplyDeleteI guess you could say that he is guilty of a capital offense.
He seems to get by OK, though, and makes me wonder why I bother.
There is more about Katey and Nick here.
Larry, I share a symbiotic relationship with Arnold.
ReplyDeleteThe crumbs from my lunch fall through the keyboard and are tasty tidbits for him. The tidbits he dances out on that keyboard give me food for thought, in turn.
I keep him on his toes and he keeps me on mine.
We both believe that man and cockroach can peacefully coexist.
And that we must.
So none of you have solved our puzzle yet so we will have to leave you a clue.
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