<em>Please do not read this blog entry if you are currently feeling down, depressed, sad, like you're "in a funk," or if you've missed your daily dose of Prozac or testosterone. Feel free to come back to it when you're manic or through having sex though.</em><p><strong>Paul Frank:</strong> I just found out my friend died from Facebook. Holla.
<p><a href="http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/the-best-cities-for-singles.html" title="Yahoo: Atlanta the Best City for Singles"><img src="/files/u2/atlanta-best-singles-city.jpg" alt="Atlanta named "Best City for Singles"" title="Hotlanta, indeed." width="400" height="372" /></a></p>
PIC reader K Si sent me this lovely story that doesn't quite fit anywhere else on PIC, so I thought I'd "squeeze it in" on my blog. Enjoy.
I've submitted my fair share of cheesy essays and inflated resumes during high school and college to try to get scholarships. But something tells me that as the cost of college tuition keeps going up to ridiculous amounts, kids are going to start making stranger and more desperate attempts to get help (in the form of money). Especially because people are morons to begin with. <br />
<p>My cat, Trevor, jumped over the short bottom pane of my window (the middle opens out) at 4am the other day trying to get to a 6-inch window sill on the outside. Unfortunately, he must have missed the window sill because the next thing I knew he was 6-7 feet below it on a 3-foot wide ledge, pacing and meowing frantically 4 stories above traffic.</p>
Steve Krug doesn't want you to think, just click away. Whether it's porn in the office, or a newsletter confirmation email.
<img src="/files/u2/google-transit-logo.gif" alt="Google Maps Transit" align="right">Like Nate, I too am carless (though voluntarily, not by force of law).
<img src="/files/u2/homeless-rich.jpg" alt="Homeless" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="150" height="179" align="right" />The unthinkable happened to me yesterday: a homeless man gave ME money. I know, it sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
<p><img src="/files/u2/blog-cash-money.jpg" hspace="3" vspace="3" width="135" height="132" align="right" />I keep a file on my computer called "Blog Bank." I'm sure many of you have the same thing - it's full of ideas for funny blog entries that I didn't feel like writing when I thought of them. Just kidding, your file is probably called "Blog Robbed." Right?
It's funny to look back at <a href="https://www.pointsincase.com/blog/2006/09/change-good-static-bad.html">this post</a> almost 2 years ago and think that adding bright yellow buttons to the top of PIC was considered a big change. But after 8 years of the old school PIC look, an ugly masterpiece carefully crafted and re-tweaked every year in Microsoft Frontpage (the biggest headache I've ever known), it was clear the site was due for a serious upgrade.
I can't figure out whether this is the nerdiest invention ever, or the lamest invention ever.
Are you thinking of starting a website? Did you graduate with a masters in computer science? No? Here's my advice: don't do it. The website I mean. If you wanna get a degree in computer science, go for it. The degree I mean. Then start a website. Just make sure only a few people enjoy it.