{"id":235,"date":"2004-04-26T03:01:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-26T03:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2004-04-26T03:01:38","modified_gmt":"2004-04-26T03:01:38","slug":"youre-not-so-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Not So Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is evolving to help the average user not seem like a boring person. What do I mean?<\/p>\n<p>Remember how you&#8217;d chat on instant messengers, say MSN Messenger, until you&#8217;d have run out of things to say other than Hi or Bye? Say bye to those moments for good with online games! No, not evil Ragnarok-type-online-games; I mean games like MSN <b>Solitaire Showdown<\/b>! When you run out of a topic, it&#8217;s the perfect time to call out this side distraction. Ironically, the people who I find myself playing this with are <b>conversation-worthy<\/b> like <a href=\"http:\/\/brewsleach.diaryland.com\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">Nora<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hannna.diaryland.com\/\" target=\"_BLANK\">Scherzquin<\/a> (though it&#8217;s obvious we&#8217;re doing it for competitive score-keeping.)<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Friendster Quizzes. They&#8217;ve made it simpler. Earlier, it was &#8220;<i>Describe your ideal romantic date.<\/i>&#8221; Now it&#8217;s &#8220;<i>Coke or Pepsi?<\/i>&#8221; (I choose 7-Up Ice now by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh and get this: <i>Lipton Iced Tea or Nestea<\/i>? Interesting. Soon companies shall cash in on this as survey research.<\/p>\n<p>I get so many of these in my bulletin board that I wonder who bothers reading all of them. Heck, I haven&#8217;t even joined any Friendster clone because there&#8217;s probably going to be more where that came from!<\/p>\n<p>Dammit if you have so much time, write me a testimonial.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m seeing forum spammers I know (who usually have nothing to say but &#8220;<i>LOL<\/i>&#8220;) getting blogs. Oh joy, let&#8217;s all read about how they brushed their teeth this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Oh hell I&#8217;m a hypocrite and I just did my first ever quiz. In <b>two<\/b> parts. Go read it, because I spent so much time cracking wit over it, and then optimizing it to fit in 4000 characters (but it still couldn&#8217;t fit despite being 3900 characters due to Friendster bugs) so I broke it into two. (Nope I won&#8217;t post it here, you&#8217;d have to be my friend to read it!)<\/p>\n<p>Oh hell I&#8217;m going to make a blog system for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfresh.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Xfresh<\/a>. I never announce works in progress until there is any work done on it, so yeah. More avenues for bloggers of average compositional ability. Well, at least it&#8217;s free!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Anybody noticed that <b>layer seven<\/b> of that quiz I took is missing? I can&#8217;t find any bulletin board post <b>with<\/b> layer seven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is evolving to help the average user not seem like a boring person. What do I mean? Remember how you&#8217;d chat on instant messengers, say MSN Messenger, until you&#8217;d have run out of things to say other than Hi or Bye? Say bye to those moments for good with online games! No, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}