I asked a guy what time it was the other day and he pulled his cell phone out to tell me. I said, “But you have a watch right there…” Then he told me it was broken. WOW, is that embarrassing or what? Getting called out for wearing a broken watch. I think that's worse than getting spotted in the department store returning an outfit you wore the night before.
The founder of the website HowStuffWorks must be really annoying to be around in person. Could you imagine casual conversation over a simple phenomenon? “Man, I wonder how that–” “OH WELL THAT'S SIMPLE, IT'S MERELY A COMBINATION OF SEVERAL COMPLEX FACTORS…”
I do so much copy/pasting during the day that I now have this weighted feeling when there's something on CTRL-V waiting to be pasted. Kind of like when you leave the house and get to the car and then suddenly you're POSITIVE you left something inside. Sometimes if I let the feeling go too long without pasting, I'll forget what's waiting, and treat myself to a surprise word/phrase/URL in Notepad. These are the simple pleasures of a webmaster.
Umm, I'm just going to go ahead and admit it: I throw pennies away. In the trash can. My inner 6-year-old is crying.
Unrelated to pennies or 6-year-olds, PIC has partnered with National Lampoon on an exclusive network of hardcore comedy websites, which you'll soon be able to navigate back and forth through, using a nav box on every member site (now in the upper right of PIC). I've been a fan of this type of idea for a long time, and I'm glad NL has finally spearheaded the initiative to round up the best of the best, as far as comedy goes online. Here's to (van) wilder times!
p.s. I thought it might also be interesting to note that the founder of HowStuffWorks (named, appropriately enough, Marshall Brain) also runs his website from Atlanta, and has a healthy obsession with search marketing and using content to strategic advantage on the web, which he detailed in his short-lived blog WebKEW last year.