The Weekend contains no workdays. Instances of ‘Tomorrow’ used on a Friday will automatically get mapped to ‘Monday’. A manager’s job is not to motivate. If you want to motivate, become a puppeteer. Meetings, by definition, are not productive. Trying to get things done in a meeting is like trying to wash clothes with the…
The Need for Beer
This is a simple graph indicating the relationship between bowling performance and beer consumption. You will notice that after some amount of beer, the average bowler’s game is actually better than he thinks it is. This is the bowling sweet spot (or the “zone”), usually indicated by a very relaxed pre-to-light-buzzed state, streaks of 3 or…
How to Look Good
by enlitened I am always hearing of people telling me that they found something in the last place they looked. An of course you do to. Idiots will tell them “well of course you did. Why would you keep looking after you have found it?” Don’t listen to those jerks because they are just stupid….
Books I May Have Written
“How to Make $Millions$” – it’s a very forward looking book, outlining how I wrote a book on making millions, and thus made millions. Explains in great detail how you can do it too! “What the World Would Be Like if I Hadn’t Written This Book” – A tantalizing vision of an alternate reality where Air Force…
The Idea Barn
Years ago I was invited by my employer to engage in a two day seminar on generating ideas. Perhaps you have also been invited to attend one of these exciting events. We went to a golf resort and had a merry old time. My advice for anyone who has not yet experienced this type of…
Talkin Funny on Paper
by enlitened Note: I was told by my editor that from now on I have to use the spell checker to rite my articles because they had to many spelling errors in them and it was being complained about by some of the readers, because they said it made the site look less processional. So…
The Ho-Locator GPS
By DrLove The holocator is an exciting new GPS, which in addition to the other points of interest we are all familiar with, can display ho’s in your area. The only additional infrastructure required is RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tags for the ho’s, which can be read by the current city/highway network. But that is the…
Woo Hoo, 1182
Today we here at Stupidopolis celebrate 1182 page views by you, our sporadic, veridic, erratic, pedantic, sardonic, acerbic, and pragmatic readers.* Why 1182? Well, 1182 is the year that the first Sejm, or Polish Parliament, convened at Leczyca. 1182 also happens to be the number of a very important ISO document entitled “Reaction to fire tests for building…
Stupidopolis #1 in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal Tuesday marked a milestone is Stupidopolis history, when a web surfer from Kathmandu, Nepal, visited, and viewed 2 different pages, making Stupidopolis the single most popular website in Nepal.
The Drollery of Blood
I’m sure you would agree with me when I say that blood is serious stuff, I mean we need most of what we have to stay alive. But I’m here to argue that blood is also very funny. Allow me to illustrate. One variable that can affect the comedy of blood is volume. how much blood there…