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Friday, April 14. 2006
Jesus Is My Guild Leader
This blog article is inspired by Good Friday, and the Easter holiday. I found the most awesome geeky t-shirt at Penny Arcade a few weeks ago.
Jesus is my guild leader. For those who don't get it. In most online games, people will form guilds because it's more beneficial to cooperatively work together. Guilds are very popular in games such as Everquest, World of Warcraft, Counterstrike, etc. Sometimes, they're called clans as well, but you get the idea.
I would love to wear this to church or work.
Jesus is my guild leader. For those who don't get it. In most online games, people will form guilds because it's more beneficial to cooperatively work together. Guilds are very popular in games such as Everquest, World of Warcraft, Counterstrike, etc. Sometimes, they're called clans as well, but you get the idea.
I would love to wear this to church or work.
Tuesday, April 4. 2006
Dating Is A Search Problem
For all those who are still searching for their true love, it looks like Google has come up with a solution to help us lonely people out. I guess in the end, it does boil down to a search problem. That's why Google, the master of search, has come up with Google Romance. The future is here people 
!
From their website:
So Google's getting into the dating business. No, not really. This was Google's annual April Fool's hoax. Hehe.
Enjoy exploring the site.
!From their website:
1. What is Google Romance?
Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, see search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we'll send you both on a Contextual Date™, which we'll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for.
[...]
3. What is Soulmate Search?
Here on the Google Romance team, we follow the philosophy "Don't be medieval," so we brought only the latest psychographic and search algorithms to bear on the problem of hooking up our users. First you fill out an extensive personal profile carefully designed by a team of both married and single Google engineers for the express purpose of gathering and analyzing romantic information. Then you fill out an equally obscure and elaborate profile describing various attributes of the person with whom you wish to spend the rest of your life and click ‘Search Romance.’ It’s that simple.
4. Really? It’s that simple?
Well, you know how when you do a regular Google web search, you get back uncannily accurate search results?
5. Usually. But sometimes they’re a little off.
Yeah, that’s why our early testers thought that Soulmate Search’s “Did you really mean…?” feature came in very handy.
[...]
10. What do you mean when you say Google Romance is a beta product?
What do you mean when you ask us what we mean when we say Google Romance is a beta product? It is what is it, okay? It’s new, it’s probably still buggy, which is to say that yes, by using this product now you conceivably are setting yourself up for a disastrous outcome – but on the other hand, you might also be on the verge of thrilling to an experience that will transform your very existence and only could have come about because you took this step, right here, right now. You’re online; take a chance. We may never pass this way again. Carpe diem. The world could, like, end tomorrow, you know?
Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, see search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we'll send you both on a Contextual Date™, which we'll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for.
[...]
3. What is Soulmate Search?
Here on the Google Romance team, we follow the philosophy "Don't be medieval," so we brought only the latest psychographic and search algorithms to bear on the problem of hooking up our users. First you fill out an extensive personal profile carefully designed by a team of both married and single Google engineers for the express purpose of gathering and analyzing romantic information. Then you fill out an equally obscure and elaborate profile describing various attributes of the person with whom you wish to spend the rest of your life and click ‘Search Romance.’ It’s that simple.
4. Really? It’s that simple?
Well, you know how when you do a regular Google web search, you get back uncannily accurate search results?
5. Usually. But sometimes they’re a little off.
Yeah, that’s why our early testers thought that Soulmate Search’s “Did you really mean…?” feature came in very handy.
[...]
10. What do you mean when you say Google Romance is a beta product?
What do you mean when you ask us what we mean when we say Google Romance is a beta product? It is what is it, okay? It’s new, it’s probably still buggy, which is to say that yes, by using this product now you conceivably are setting yourself up for a disastrous outcome – but on the other hand, you might also be on the verge of thrilling to an experience that will transform your very existence and only could have come about because you took this step, right here, right now. You’re online; take a chance. We may never pass this way again. Carpe diem. The world could, like, end tomorrow, you know?
So Google's getting into the dating business. No, not really. This was Google's annual April Fool's hoax. Hehe.
Enjoy exploring the site.
--George Herbert (1593-1633), English Poet, Orator, Priest