Good Idea, Bad Idea

Come on, anyone who watched the Animaniacs remember these. Well, I've noticed somethings pop up that have been taken as good ideas, but really weren't. So I'm here to set the record straight. Crocs, I don't care how comfortable they may be, do not match everything in you wardrobe... despite what you and Oprah may think. So please, next time you're wearing some blue pants and a nice shirt, don't try to fool yourself into believing those NEON monstrosities match. OH!!! And anytime you have a product that you actually consider naming: The Annoying Thing - its a BAD IDEA.

Good Idea: Playing with your friends on a Merry-Go-Round.
Bad Idea: Using a Motocycle to power said Merry-Go-Round.



Its times like this I love Charles Darwin.

There are some other interesting ideas that have made a few people very rich. I got this off of digg, and thought I'd share it with everyone less digg-savvy. Here's the top 10 list and it includes ideas like, Doggles (Goggles for Dogs who like to stick their heads out the windows.) As well as Santa Mail and Monks who will refill your ink cartriges.

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Zombie Update for the day
I'm going to try and find questions that are a little bit harder, but I'll have to get a bit deeper in my book I imagine. Ro is just too good and zombie maintance... must have learned about it in her Special Ed classes. Hey, Zombies need learning too, right? Oh, and Kimmy gets 100 Million Mega-Cool points for her answer. She would be the really funny one in my zombie movie, the one that everyone loves but you always worry about because the funny one tends to die in the movie.

Why is it that Fire, Drowning and Gasing Zombies is highly ineffective?

I think I have a gambling problem.

Well, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that if you borrow money to gamble, or you view gambling as a source of income then you have a problem. Well, here's the deal. A friend who worked at Best Buy moved to New York several months ago and came back to town for a few days so I really felt compelled to hang out with them. I brought my soccerbank, which had about $2.46 (about half of what the buy-in was for the nights poker game.) Upon arriving I had numerous offers to spot me the cash and I eventually caved. I mean, I'm fairly good/lucky at poker and I figured it was worth a shot. I made it to the final 3, and all I had to do was get second place to win $10 ($25 for first).

How was I supposed to know she had full house? It was the really crappy kind of losing too... the kind where she didn't even know that 3 of a kind + a pair = "full house." Eh, what are you going to do. So now I still have $2.46 in my bank and an "I Owe Kyle $5" mark in my wallet. bah, fun was still had by all...

I could quit anytime.

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The Answer to the Zombie Trivia:
Only my girlfriend knew the correct answer. I'm not sure what kind of heathen, paganistic world that Scott lives in, but there's no such thing as voodoo. As far as the rest of you...
Do you think this is a game? What, you don't think you win a prize for playing along? I'll tell you what your prize is, the prize is your life! The prize is know what to do when the zombies come. And knowing is half the battle.

Pop quiz hotshot: You've been bitten on the arm by a zombie, what do you do???

Broke as a Joke

First off, I don't really understand what that saying means... if you google "broke as a" it will show you that "joke" is clearly the only way to finish that statement, yet I have no idea why. ANYWAYS! Tomorrow I'm sending in my student loan request, which is good - cause I'm out of money. Thanks to Ro's recommendation I've taken to leaving my credit cards at home and going to work with ZERO access to cash. Which this is where going to the movies with Kyle tonight was interesting.

I went to the movies and met Wendy, the nice girl who takes money and give out tickets so you can see the movie of your choice. I started off by making small talk with Wendy because I was about to become a pain in the butt customer. I busted out my soccerball piggy bank (THANKS AMERICAN WATER) and dumped my money on the counter. Eight dollars for a movie ticket wasn't going to work, luckily I had my expired ISU ID on me which brought me down to $6.75. After seperating and counting out all my change I was about .36 cents short so I called Kyle who was on his way and told him my dilema. He assured me that he could cover my 36 cents which almost made up for him being late getting there (my best friend Phil is a much better date).

While waiting 15 minutes for Kyle and making small talk with Wendy there was a drastic turn of events. I found a mostly used $25 use-anywhere-gift-card-thingy in my wallet. So I called the number on the back to check the balance - SCORE! $2.39. I then paid for my ticket with the remainder of card and the change from my piggy bank. I am proud to say it was mostly silver too! As long as you count it by monetary value and not by number of coins. Did you know that Wendy gets free movie passes all the time and goes to the theatre in Edwardsville frequently. We also discussed the finer points of watching a movie in random sparatic bursts (as in like 10 mintues here, last ten minutes the next day, first 10 minutes the day after that, etc.) All in all, good times.

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Zombie Trivia Question
Zombies are:
a) created via a voodoo ritual where in a bokor (dark voodoo priest) revives the dead.
b) the souls of the dead returned to haunt the living as often spoke of in Mideval folklore and has appeared in some way/shape/form in nearly all ancient civilizations.
c) the result of a virus which mutates the brain, freeing it from its dependance of oxygen and creates a being that is technically neither living, nor dead.
b) a myth.

Here's a camp picture for you.

So here's a picture that I feel encompasses the whole idea of camp. He just speared a piece of brocolli with his fork... with his foot. So eat with your feet, gross people out, and don't do drugs. That's camp.

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I just bought three books from the book store, and they illicted an odd look from the cashier.


What?

Honors Previously Unknown

Probably one of those things where I make a bigger deal out of it than it really is, but I thought this was pretty cool. I have achieved a level of status that I didn't realize I was shooting for, but now that I'm there I feel I can brag about it. At camp this year.... I had a few campers who did:

IMPERSONATIONS OF ME!

Apparently when they were developing a skit to put on for some other participants, they decided that someone was going to play Breyn and I in the skit. That's when they started discussing: Who did the best Rob Impression. Josh here was the one who won, because everyone was already familiar with his Rob Impression. All I can say is that imitation is the greatest flattery, right?

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Next quick point to touch on, if you ever want to try a climbing wall, and you see that one of the belayers... you know, people on the ground who hold your rope - therefore keeping you from going Splat. Anyways, if you ever see one of them getting their training in 5 minutes right before your time to climb. Don't go with that person.

There was a wall at the college we were at and I was talking to one of the workers about how exciting that was. She asked if I had experience and I replied by saying that I had my gear in the car. She then asked me to come help them. All was good, but there was another staffmember (ask Scott about the 1up Kid) who felt that he had ample experience because he was a mountain rescue ranger saver Bulls#!t. They showed him how to do it and I stopped him from helping the first kid and made him practice on me first. The very next kid he let take a 7 foot fall to the floor. Rob was not happy.

Hi I'm alive!

I haven't forgotten. Just wanted to let you know...

Busy at camp.

Here's some of my "Staff in Training."

Man... I'm training staff members-to-be. Crazy.

I am an Investment God

If you need stock advice, just ask me. I mean apparently I'm pretty awesome. But what on Earth could have spurred this bout of self-flattery? Easy, I won a raffle.

This isn't just any "winning of a raffle." This isn't like I just randomly picked the right lotto numbers (although the payoff would have been nice). This wasn't like I was the 1000th caller/customer or anything. This was planned and flawlessly executed. So at the Buy we had a little customer raffle/fund raiser. There was a little treasure chest full of M&M's and the game was simple: Guess how many. The real skill came not in a single guess, but a series of guesses. You see, Best Buy employees are lazy when it comes to team building and staff unity, so I assumed that not very many people would participate in said game. I assumed right. When they ended the contest today, there were $9 inside. Nine $1 guesses. Guess who was 5 of them--that's right, this kid. They weren't random guesses either. I guessed 350, 450, 500, 550, and 650. The correct number? 536: ROB WINS!!! I had bet $5 that I would win. So what did that get me besides a treasure chest full of M&M's? Oh, did I forget to mention the $25 Gift Card?

A $25 return on a $5 investment is a pretty sweet deal. That's $25 towards my new Nintendo. November can't seem to get here soon enough.

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A song I discovered via Scott. A nice acoustic diddy about a Zombie trying to reason with the people inside to let him in. (there's a small "Play the Song" button above the lyrics)

Must think of a good excuse...

man, its not like I wasn't home enough to take a few minutes and post. I didn't lose both hands in Iraq, making posting difficult. Oh snap! I know. Its the Ryder boys fault. They stopped posting, and it rubbed off on me. That's the ticket.

So now I've been gone for a while and feel like I have to give you something substancial and entertaining. Lets see, I've played some World of Warcraft (Warning: Animated characters singing about... well, nevermind. Just click the link.) Pretty entertaining, eh? What's that, you don't agree with it? That's not what this guy thinks.

I'm going to try and keep up with the posting for a couple days here because on Friday I start my camp and will be gone for a week. We'll have a laptop with us, so there's a chance I could get a post or two out - but it depends on if I can get an internet connection.

For people that haven't heard of the Red Paperclip Guy: A guy took a red paperclip and said that he would trade anyone as long as it was better than what he started with. He traded a paperclip for a fish pen, for a doorknob, for a mini-grill, for a power generator, for a snow mobile, for... well you get the idea. His end goal was a house, and on 7.8.06 he got it... for free, just by trading up. Check out his website. Or this news clip. Why can't I think of anything like this!

I'd instantly immerse into some of that...

So at work we sell these foreign language programs. I don't think words could fully get across my interpetation of their marketing campaign, so I made you a collage.



Pretty simple... for said language, just pick a hot girl from that country and slap her face REAL big on the cover. Subliminially its kinda like, "Learn my language and you might have a chance with me..."

There was a far more controversial campagin that was pulled because of some ethical concerns over the number of creepy middleaged singled men buying into the software.

Instant Immersion
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