3 uses of double entendres

3 ways to use double entendres to make yourself giggle
1. See previous post
2. See previous post
3. See previous post

3 ways to defeat procrastination

1. Shut up and do it.
2. Quit reading my blog and do it.
3. No, really. Quit whining, close Firefox, and do it.

Metapost

One of the prefixes I've been overusing recently is "Meta." Frankly, I've started to have it up to here *uses hand to signal height to which it has been had* with meta-ness. It all started innocently enough. A list displaying "9 ways to get a good night sleep," I'm there. You put together a site showing your favorite 9 webapps? I'll del.icio.us it. But when I see lists like "The 102 best productivity blog posts," I'm done. A good number of those 102 are bound to be lists of 10 things I can do to boost my productivity. I know there are a lot of productive people in the world. I'm sure many of them have good advice about how to replicate their work efficiency. However, I could scour all 102 blog posts and I wouldn't find a single person listing "Read 1,020 tips for a more productive life" as a way to improve your overall productivity. If your idea of being productive is spending hours on end reading about how to be productive from people who spend hours on end writing about how to be productive, your life is way too meta.

Half-Hour News Hour

Having watched one episode of FOX News's attempt to rip off the Daily Show, I have a few thoughts I would like to share:

1. It appears that every single comedy writer worth a salt is a liberal. Every single one. FOX News needs to scour every synagogue in LA to find someone who can teach them what a "punchline" is.

2. If you have a live studio audience and you still need a laugh track, it means your writing staff sucks. In this case, your anchors, too.

3. Having an intern tape Weekend Update and transpose it does not a writing staff make.

4. If you are a news station and your production values can get smoked by a comedy show, you are doing something wrong.

5. If you only do your sad little show once a week, you should probably rehearse once or twice.