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According to Nielsen Media Research, the median yearly income of Office fans is $78,000.
Wow, Jim is a baller.
Does this mean that it takes a moderate level of intelligence to watch The Office?
Office fans make the equivalent of an intermediate/mid-level worker. This position is most likely acquired by receiving a bachelors degree and working for 4-5 years. This takes some level of intelligence.
Reminds me of freakonomics.
It probably just means that an average of amount of office fans are incredibly average.
Last night a friend of mine was pulled over for driving bicycling without a license. Yep you heard it right. He had gotten pulled over for not having a license for his bicycle, an ordinance in Costa Mesa that carries a hefty $5 fine. The problem? No one has ever heard of this law and searching online I can’t find it anywhere. I have been a resident of Costa Mesa for 5 years now and the best thing I can find is a random post on a non-official blog that states you can get a bike license at the local fire department for free.
Why the need for a bicycle license? To keep it’s citizens safe? Sadly, no it’s simply broken tail light pullover. The policeman stops you to figure out what else he can get you for. Past crimes, illegals aliens, maybe he can get you for biking under the influence which nets the pd $250. In the below instance, they pulled over a latino man for biking on the wrong side of the street, then took him to jail for not having his license. He ended up getting deported.
Of those accused of being in the country illegally, 55 were suspected of misdemeanors, 39 of felonies, 9 of outstanding warrants, and one of jaywalking, an infraction. Another man who was stopped on suspicion of the infraction of riding his bike on the wrong side of the street was later detained because he did not have a bicycle license, a misdemeanor charge. In both infractions, police have said the men did not have proper identification and were brought to the station so police could determine their identities.
Now the counter argument here is “If you aren’t breaking the law, then why are you worried?”. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work. Lets play out a “hypothetical” situation:
I plan on spending the evening at a friends house nearby and know I might drink a few beers. Nothing in excess (even 1 beer will cause you to fail a breathalyser). I decide to be responsible and ride my bike for the safety of myself and others. Even though I know I will not drink enough to affect my driving, I am being overly cautious. So I ride my bike (on the sidewalk, which has no pedestrians), but I get pulled over and booked for no license. The police officer then makes me take a breathalyser that I fail. Now I get booked for a DUI and it goes on my permanent record. Maybe I disagree with this totally bogus law and get booked for “assaulting” a police officer (it’s only me and him at night).
While this situation might seem like an exaggeration or me simply hating “the man”, a police officer pulling someone over for this law doesn’t fall under the given credo “to serve and protect”.
More importantly, this law is a barrier to citizens doing something good. Riding a bike reduces emissions, is good exercise and promotes a community-focused environment.
Pulling over an unlicensed bicyclist over is almost as stupid as arresting a breakfast cereal mascot.
Police On My Back [CavemanMoses]
The following post was painstakingly* hand-crafted. Please take the time to follow the links and read it all the way through. There just might be something in it for you (nothing of quality or substance, but something nonetheless).
So you’ve seen star wars kid, numa numa and maybe you even got in on the dramatic prairie dog. You’re thinking to yourself, “I’m in with the internety generation”. Well today your gonna get a little cooler**.
I happily present the phenomenon known as being rick-rolled. This is not a new concept. Being “rick-rolled” consists of being sent a link to a youtube video or website containing displaying a youtube video of Rick Astley masked by some other text. For Example:
Whoa man. They just found atlantis…
TIP: Skip to :45 secs in if you don’t want to take the time to watch it or you will miss the humor of a following image
This in and of itself, can be quite funny. But “rick-rolling” in some form or another has been around for quite a while. The real treasure I share with you today is the song chart meme. This includes charting out the lyrics or concepts of a song. Example Below:
Question: So what happens when Rick Astley and song charting combine? (Clue: It has nothing to do with Chuck Norris)
Answer:
And for the bonus round a song chart related to another great meme:
For more song charts, check out the flickr group here.
*Possibly Inaccurate
**If being cooler means knowing more about what a bunch of nerds, with too much time on their hands, like to do.
Bill Gates has the worst resume EVAR!
This is for all those out there looking for work or working jobs you don’t like. Maybe you’re in the internety generation with a quarter (actually a third cause no one lives till 100) of your life left, wondering what to do next. Well, lift your head up.
Bill Gates has only 3 connections on the website. He has only worked for two companies, he’s been “self-employed” for 8 years and he worked 33 years for one company before that.
Obviously, from looking at his resume, he has no ambition or upward mobility (he stayed in the same job the whole time at microsoft). This guy is a real stinker.
So next time your feeling bad about your resume or list of accomplishments, remember that the supposed standards or must-do’s don’t really matter; it’s all about your talent and ideas.*
*Though it never hurts to wear pants and comb your hair, Brother #3
Go visit Dave and ask him where he is at?
For every question you get right, the poor get rice. The way these websites work is that they sell advertising according to how many persons visit the site and use the money to feed the poor. So the more people you tell the more effective the site is. So get out there and spread it around. Everyone needs a 10:30 break anyways.
So I tried to make my two blogs become one and they imbred and created like a dozen mentally challenged children. Luckily I have one reader and he told me that this mutated blog was trying to take over the world by posting the same photo over and over until the whole internet failed.
So for now we’ll settle for a little less integration. I still like this blog and will continue to update it and write here, but make sure you check out shepherd.tumblr.com for your daily dose of internet fun.
