My Life, and Pursuit of Becoming A Millionaire

What Is A Roflcopter?

This is the definition of a roflcopter (as per whoever had the time to create this beautiful ASCII drawing):

…………………..__ …………
……<ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL>.
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………………. __||/____……
.\……………|’-|–| .\………
.. _………..|–|—|..\ ……..
../ L ____,/——-______
.|LOL|————-O—– —-,..
.. L /______,—”———–, /…
../ /…………._________ ,/….
.//………….____//___ __\__/.

If that definition doesn’t answer the question, perhaps you can generate your own personal roflcopter after reading the following (taken from a game site called pozy):

You know that feeling you got deep inside of you that made you want to laugh, but it was so lame that you didn’t laugh after reading it? That’s usually when I say “Roflcopter” – it’s usually in place of a laugh. A better definition would probably be this (taken from urbandictionary.com):

A Roflcopter is an ASCII drawing, made from key symbols and contains “LOL” and “ROFL” for the rotors.

If you’re still confused as to what a roflcopter is, don’t give up on yourself. It usually takes about 3 days before you’ll be comfortable saying it. After that 3 day period is over, you’ll feel be saying it every minute of every hour of every day. As a matter of fact, you’ll probably say it so much that people will begin to loathe you. Either they will detest you, or they will end up asking you what it means, thus keeping the roflcopter traveling throughout the world.

Now, for the love of all that is holy, why did I feel the need to post about the definition of a roflcopter? I guess the main reason is that every time I navigate to Pozy’s page, they always have some ridiculous (half funny) statement that makes me say roflcopter in my head every time I see it. Random, yes? But why not post about it?

Just for the record, my new board game company, Empire Board Games, out-prices pozy 99% of the time on their steal of the day and has very competitive pricing on all related board games. I’ll post more about The Adventures of The Empire in a later post. All you need to know right now is that Empire has the best board game prices on the internet, and we currently offer free shipping on all orders over $90.00. If you’re interested to hear more news on Empire, you can check out the Empire Blog, where I post regularly as well.

My half-way humorous response to pozy’s half-way humorous question:

Killing time does not damage Elite Eternity.

(That was easily worth a Roflcopter.
Post your (possibly first) roflcopter in the comments.) ;)

Easily The Most Excellent Way To Show Someone You’re Disappointed

I don’t remember where I picked this up, but I saved it to my computer and just stumbled upon it. Credit to the original author, whomever that may be. I think this is great and can be applied to a variety of head shaking situations. Enjoy.

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Magic Eye To Hide Your Email Address From The Bots?

I thought I had seen it all, and perhaps I just missed the boat on this one as well, but are you kidding me? A Magic Eye Game to protect your email address? I’m familiar with the following ways of protecting your email from the over aggressive spam sending bots, but heck, I haven’t been able to see the magic picture in magic eye games since I was first introduced to them in kindergarten.

- me @ eliteeternity.com
[Without The Spaces]

- me at elite eternity dot com

I can’t think of the other camouflaging I’ve seen, but all of the above are ridiculous in my opinion. I’ve never taken those precautions and I don’t have excessive spam.

Anyways, when I clicked on the “Email Me” link and this image popped up, I just had to sit back, laugh, and restrain myself from picking up my monitor and moving it from side to side as I used to when I would try so hard to figure out Magic Eye puzzles.

Needless to say, if you figure out the email address embedded into this magic eye picture, please do share in the comments below. I give up.

Good Humor In Web 2.0 Is Definitely A Turn On.

I recently had the experience of transferring an RSS Feed from one site to another. In doing this, I couldn’t help but notice the awesome hint of humor that FeedBurner has incorporated into it’s corporate image. Some might argue that adding humor to business is “unprofessional”; I would argue the exact opposite. When used sparingly, and in a way that is actually funny, humor ads a realistic and trustworthy front to your company.

My humble, teenage advice to any new web-based or even brick and mortar company is to be funny. Be funny when you have the wiggle room. People respond well to humor.

Take for example the following screen shots I captured from FeedBurner:

(Doesn’t that just make you want to laugh? An instant connection is formed with the user.)

(“Troubleshootize” – easily appeals to the inner geek in all of us. And then “Oh Dear, What kind of trouble?” gives me the impression I’m running to my mommy for help. Again, the emotional bond is created through humor. Yes, I’m being serious.)

(1,000,000 times more interesting than seeing “return to previous page”. I love it!)

And thus it is ladies and gentelemen. Humor is the way to go. FeedBurner uses humor throughout their site, from the home page all the way to the end (wherever the end may be). And heck, FeedBurner was purchased by Google for how many millions of dollars? Oh, that’s right, only 100 million dollars. I guess building a humor based company isn’t the worst idea in the world after all.

Speaking of High Caliber Colleges. LOL! GO ******* University!

Asterisks save me from my non-existent stalkers

Thank you for submitting your *** admissions application.
Within the next several days, you will receive either an acceptance letter or notification of missing admission requirements.
If you have any admissions questions, please email: *******@****.*** or call (***) ***-****.

As a reminder: if you did not submit your payment online, Please submit your $** application fee to the admissions office by mail or in person.

So which part is funny? Check out the bold part of the text.
I just finished my web application – applying for a college that I’m going to go to and at the end I got this message. What a joke! “you will receive either an acceptance letter or notification of missing admission requirements”. So what? Is there no dreaded “denial” letter that I have to worry about? I sure hope not. Quite frankly, I’m shaking in my boots. Please accept me…what will I ever do if you don’t?

p.s. the “****” parts are **** out for my own protection. Wait, maybe I do want a stalker. Maybe he can get to my acceptance letter before I do and steal it from me….and go to school under my name. Sounds kinda neat eh? “Get a life” *I say to myself as I nearly nod off to sleep*

- Peace out non-existent audience that reads my blog. I love you, always have and always will.

The Proper Way To Tell Your Mom The Bathroom Is Clean

1. Clean Bathroom 2. Double check to make sure the marker you use is permanent 3. Write Message I thought it was funny. The whole reason I wrote this message is because she first wrote on the mirror a message that said “clean your bathroom” or something like that. I figured I would reply.

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