Evolution of the Booby Trap

Internet Archaeology - Plausible?

(Two people are sifting through huge chunks of code at computers.)

Marcus : Ahoi there Charles! I think we got something here!. Hold it, I'll just clear away the code a little bit. Ah, what have we here? Hmmm... it looks to me like it's some sort of watchamacallit where primitive people used to express their thoughts. Says here that it's called a personal umm... Blog?

Charles: Brilliant Marcus ol' chap! This is the find of a lifetime! I've always wondered what people used to record their views on things. I can't for the life of me think of going anywhere without my (insert name of ultra-hi-tech-journal-thingy)! These people truly were ingenious eh?

Marcus: Bah! "Blog!". Primitive name if I may say so. Oh well, can't expect primitive blokes to be as forward thinking as us eh? Let's inform the media and get this over with shall we?

Charles: Alright old chap! Let's move on I say. Chop-chop!

"Beware of con men. This house is not for sale."

Interesting title eh? Well darn it, it's TRUE! People actually put up signs saying exactly that in Congo (yea there's a country called that). It's probably the only place in the world where you get to sell your house to someone without even knowing about it.

And you know the beautiful part about it? It'll take you a looot of money to get your house back once it's sold. This is probably how it goes.

1. Con men get a LOT of money from the sale of your house
2. You realize that your suddenly a visitor in your own home
3. You go to court. You either:
a. Pay a LOT of money to the con men to get it back
b. Pay a LOT of money to the judge to get it back
c. Pay a LOT of money to a lawyer to convince the judge
d. All of the above

Well anyway, you know what they say about one good (ahem) deed everyday...

The Million Dollar Widget Deal

Almost every businessman starts off with the misguided perception that there is a pot of gold at the end of every commercial rainbow.

They start off thinking that selling a widget which they don't have, (which conveniently has a price tag of a couple of million dollars), to unsuspecting rich folk who just sit on their pile of money drinking their umpteenth century wine, would get them up in life.

Note: This of course assumes that their is an ACTUAL widget for sale by another party to the businessman.

And then... Bang!!

Pop goes their million dollar widget deal! The buyer's chickening out, or the seller's not interested anymore. No wait! The buyer never even HAD a million dollars to buy the non-existent widget with. Nothing more to sell of which they didn't have. Finito.

Then...

The despondent businessman picks of the pieces of his (non-existent) widget deal, which is of course, nothing, and heads off home. Back to the drawing board. Assumes it's a problem with the widget and begins the process with a new widget.

Repeat umpteen times. Fails umpteen times.

The businessman gets it. He starts small, selling cheaper widgets. Gets more clients. Makes a million dollars. Retires.

Moral: Widgets make more money when you don't expect them to.

The world sits on its collective bum

First I'd like to extend my sincerest apologies for not keeping this thing up-to-date. Je suis de soleh, pardon, maaf karo... Soweee!

Well that said, in numerous languages, I'd like to comment on one of the more important issues the world is facing today.

My dear friends, I take it upon me as a responsibility to the eternal continuance of the earth to say that the world is becoming lazier. You know this when a guy wants to buy a movie on a DVD instead of a VCD just because he has to get up to change the discs. Sad... although of course as expected, they already have gear for those kinda folks - the multi-disc changer. woohoo! Now we just have to wait for them to invent a technology to change channels with your brain eh?

Why limit it to just the entertainment arena? Now we have:

• Self-cleaning toilets (not just the toilet, your ahem... behind too!)
  
• Self-playing pianos
  
• Fuzzy logic washing machines (fuzzy=blurry?)
• Self-cooking food
  
• Answering machines
  

Although would it be uber-cool if we had:

• Self-changing light bulbs (interchangable with babies' diapers)
  
• Self-wiping toilet paper
• Automatic back-scratchers
• Self-reading books (not to be confused with screen/page readers for the disabled. There should be something for total lazy bums)
• Intuitive pens which write down your every thought

Just musing...