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When this popped up, I was like, "Another Ubuntu/Firefox/Amazon phone?" Another "We are going to release $POPULAR_PRODUCT and take the market by storm!"

Every time I hear about a product in a market where everyone has that kind of product, where the product has some gimmick (in the phone market, that's typically being open-source), I think of Simon.

Here's some inspiration for you: http://27bslash6.com/halogen.h...

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2....

In my country, terawatt globes are reserved for police helicopter chases and warning sailors of hazardous shoals. This is despite the fact that practically every living creature there can kill you in under three minutes. Our primary spoken language is screaming.
http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

Is she Austrian? http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

While your blackout curtains sound like a logical and simple solution, I think this one is more fun. http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

Watch out, they may respond with poisonous gas!

http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

Unamused, Warner Bros. requested that the Marx Brothers at least outline the premise of their film. Groucho responded with an utterly ridiculous storyline, and, sure enough, received another stern letter requesting clarification. He obliged and went on to describe a plot even more preposterous than the first, claiming that he, Groucho, would be playing “Bordello, the sweetheart of Humphrey Bogart.” No doubt exasperated, Warner Bros. did not respond. A Night in Casablanca was released in 1946.

Entire exchange can be found on 27bslash6.com.

I have been constantly amazed that a company that tries to push an 'extreme' image hates their customers

Well here's one amusing way of dealing with it.

In my experience, absolutely.

Or just as valueless as the badly-thought-out insult that was delivered anonymously; except less likely to drag down property values.

When we sign something, we usually think about it a bit more than otherwise.

Also, there's obviously a reason why /. has decreed that we can't mod in comment threads in which we participate. I kinda respect them, and figger it's probably not a bad idea to color between these lines. I'm not someone who follows rules, just because they exist. I need to understand why, or have some direct respect for the folks that made them (as opposed to the fifth replacement monkey). I may not always agree that the rule is good, but I feel that, as long as I am over at someone else's house, they get to set the rules.

I consider this venue to be full of potential employers, clients and employees. It is also probably aggregated by folks that wear trench coats in summer, and could fairly easily match my comments (anonymous or not) to my real identity, so I feel that it's a good idea to behave like I'm on stage at tech conference.

That doesn't mean bland and inoffensive. I'm not that kind of person. It does, however, mean not stupid and deliberately offensive. I have done plenty of that in the past, and, as my Disqus experience taught me, that stupid stuff I said and did, is still around, like an uncleaned catbox, reminding me that "I art mortal," so to speak.

What you've describe is sadness, not depression.

In any event... try this.

Does this remind people of Missy the lost cat? http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

Or asking for a logo to be designed to a certain specification? http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html

This will most certainly be hilarious.

Does this remind people of Missy the lost cat? http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

Or asking for a logo to be designed to a certain specification? http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html

This will most certainly be hilarious.

Could I send them a drawing of a spider instead?

Thank you for the memory; I'd lost the link to and forgotten about David Thorne's site.

For anyone still reading this, who likes to laugh: http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

http://www.27bslash6.com/foggot.html

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html

Speaking of a lost cat: Missing Missy

Thank you so much for posting this. I've been looking for a link to this site for a while now.

Speaking of a lost cat: Missing Missy

If someone says that, "they just need a programmer", they haven't vetted the idea.

Actually if the "ideas" that this guy receives are like the "ideas" my colleagues and I receive as physics profs I would not even call them ideas but simply wishes as in "I wish physics worked like this and I'd like you to work on proving that it does." vs. "I wish this piece of software existed and I'd like you to work on writing it.". Apparently it is not just profs which get requests for help with "ideas" as amusing exchange shows.

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html

• Missing Cat

I was reminded of a similar story, the one where a guy wanted his drawing of the spider back.

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

so you can get the gist. Once again, the site is http://www.27bslash6.com/ , I personally like it, but not everyone will, or should.

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Riddick
While watching the movie 'Chronicles of Riddick' together last night, my offspring stated that he wished Riddick was his dad. When I asked why, he replied that Riddick is good looking, has muscles and is a good fighter. I told him that I wished Matthew (his arch-enemy at school) was my son because he is better at maths and has cool hair.
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One thousand characters
Writing rubbish on the internet amuses me a lot. There is often a limit of 1000 characters per post so every story (including punctuation, spaces, introduction, proposal, argument and punch line) has to be within a small paragraph.
Sometimes I just write nonsense and other times I write something rather insensitive to evoke angry responses.
When I was just fourteen, I was given the task of drowning kittens by my girlfriend's mother. I filled a large laundry sink with room temperature water and held the eight kittens under. As each kitten died and sank to the bottom, it turned and rested 'snuggled' to the previous. I put them in a garbage bag and was carrying it out when the bag moved and I heard a meow. I opened the bag and found one kitten had survived. So I drowned it again.
And that is an exact one thousand.
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Also, don't miss the Chatroulette one: http://www.27bslash6.com/chat.html

so you can get the gist. Once again, the site is http://www.27bslash6.com/ , I personally like it, but not everyone will, or should.

___________
Riddick
While watching the movie 'Chronicles of Riddick' together last night, my offspring stated that he wished Riddick was his dad. When I asked why, he replied that Riddick is good looking, has muscles and is a good fighter. I told him that I wished Matthew (his arch-enemy at school) was my son because he is better at maths and has cool hair.
___________
One thousand characters
Writing rubbish on the internet amuses me a lot. There is often a limit of 1000 characters per post so every story (including punctuation, spaces, introduction, proposal, argument and punch line) has to be within a small paragraph.
Sometimes I just write nonsense and other times I write something rather insensitive to evoke angry responses.
When I was just fourteen, I was given the task of drowning kittens by my girlfriend's mother. I filled a large laundry sink with room temperature water and held the eight kittens under. As each kitten died and sank to the bottom, it turned and rested 'snuggled' to the previous. I put them in a garbage bag and was carrying it out when the bag moved and I heard a meow. I opened the bag and found one kitten had survived. So I drowned it again.
And that is an exact one thousand.
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Also, don't miss the Chatroulette one: http://www.27bslash6.com/chat.html

Rather than report on the missy one why not report on one of the stories far more relevant to Slashdot (Open Source, discipline without thinking etc.) which is arguably funnier because the teacher is more deserving of the treatment and which is brilliant at the end in that it might have actually reminded the teacher what is really important.

I think this might be the original - why not start there? There are some other articles that are funny as well.

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

Because, perhaps, his web host is about as friendly about bandwidth as he is friendly about cat owners? Slashdotting, ftl. Now I can't see what else that raging asshole has to say about people that annoy him but apparently hold enough consequence for him to prepare some VERY lengthy responses, AND keep them all catalogged on a web site.

Golf clap. Us un-creative peons would just *ignore* the annoying people.

Option 3:
Make the whole thing up (or generous parts) to tell a funny little story, in a similar vein as his other, oh... 50 or so tales, and watch the outrage and moral anguish fly.

I read this when http://www.27bslash6.com/ was linked to in a comment.

The dude has some funny stuff up at his site, but only because he's an unregenerate asshole. I suspect he's quick to ask for free tech support 'cause he's too important and too busy to have the time to figure it out himself--but regardless of how busy he is, he's still to cheap to want to pay for it.

I actually had an anesthesiologist ask me for tech support on his XP install while he was sedating my wife as she was delivering my second child. I asked him if I would get free anesthesiology if I gave him free tech support, and he got the hint.

I think this might be the original - why not start there? There are some other articles that are funny as well.

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

If I am a non-working designer and I have a chance to spend a few minutes in photoshop designing some logo for your crappy company Cheapskate Inc., it doesn't cost me anything other than time to make a logo of a roller skate with pennies for wheels.

Makes me wonder how many spoofs get submitted, and reminded me of Simon's Pie Charts.

I know that this is offtopic, but that page was fucking hilarious. http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

No, he should have asked this graphic designer:
http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

We still acknowledge that Arrington and TechCrunch bring some value to your business endeavorIf he agrees to our terms, we would have Arrington assume the role of visionary/evangelist/marketing head and Fusion Garage would acquire the rights to use the Crunchpad brand and name. Personally, I don’t think the name is all that important but you seem to be somewhat attached to the name.

Translation:

I'd like to cash in on Arrington's hard work. Does he have some sort of puppeteer's slot in his ass or lower back where we could shove our arm during launches? Or is he run by remote control? Does he come with instructions or ... how does this 'Arrington thing' work exactly? Please toss him the offer of looking like Steve Jobs in the eyes of the public but being my subservient bitch behind the curtains and being forever financially crippled. If he requests vasaline, we may be able to find some funding somewhere but we're not making any promises. There are sharks and there are sheep ...

Honestly, I applaud Arrington's levelheaded response. I believe mine would have consisted of nothing more than "WTF?" and an image.

Aside from all that, I'm sad because I really was excited to see what came out of this and would have been interested after the price dropped a bit. I mean, depending on battery life, you'd have to be nuts to get a Kindle over this.

Or something like this http://www.27bslash6.com/

For those that don't get it (like me):
http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html

and then it "sold" on ebay.

I hope that info will help him

Or maybe you could link to the original site.

http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html