jefke in IE

now look at this:

Jefke in Firefox

now i like the left menu from IE and i like the Right menu from FF. but not the other ones in each, respectively. man, i thought all this shit went away in 2001 when netscape died!

natty and i were out to dim sum with our friend Cam and we ran out of tea. Natty was gonna flag down one of the waiters, but Cam said to just open the lid to the metal tea pot, and push it to the end of the table–they’d know what to do.

so we did. and sho’nuff. a busboy swung by, grabbed the empty pot and replaced it with a full one. ‘Fucking cool’ i thought–’there must be other shit like that. what the world needs is a website that is full of little tips and tricks to make you seem cooler than you are. " 

oh maybe it was the dotcom times, maybe it was me trying to run with kids cooler than me, but i thought it could be a neat site. people email in or post tips and tricks, editors put them live. people comment–i even thought of an integration deal that woudl work with dodgeball, well back when dodgeball was more like citysearch, than friendster with phones. imagine you look up a venue for your hot date, something oh, i dunno belgian, is Markt still around? when you get the info and reviews for the resturant, you get a tip to look cool on your date, oh i dunno something like how to eat musselslike a belgian…you look cool, the restaurant gets business, you get laid…everyone wins…

after all it was the era of those little books about how to survive a plane crash or falling out of a building and shit. 

well anyway, i sat down to think it out, then realized i’d need some sort of database and shit to do it, then realized that at that time, i’d need to learn .asp or coldfusion or something to do it and then had another free martini and just forgot about it…

till yesterday, for some reason.

and through the magic of blogging technology, here is the facade factor–my 1999 big money dream 5 years late and 10 million in VC money short.  but whatever.

so i have built it. so you must come.  the premise is basically this:

smart people would read the site, and either submit or post tips and tricks to look cool or impress people or whatever. not necessarily limited to the whole dining world, though that is what comes to mind for me. other stuff might be possible–something with how to cut off the end of a cigar, or fuck i dunno, never burp at a russian restaurant b/c they might chop your balls off. shit like that.

doesn’t need to be all international or fancy pants either–i’m sure there is a rich untapped knowledge base of how to behave in the south, or LA or midwest and shit, isnt’ there something about if you order a milkshake in boston you get shaken chocolate milk whereas if you want what everyone else calls a milkshake you need to order a frappe or something—shit like that.  i’m flexible. just keep it sorta clean. i don’t really need to have a website on anal sex faux paux’s.

well anyway… check out the site Facade Factor –or F factor, if anyone has better name, let me know, you’ll be in on the ground level—that’ll be good when google buys us.

you know…

he’s right.

gone for a very long time, and now looking very much like some sort of link engine for gage’s and krucoff’s blog empire…i’m sure it makes money appear from nowhere, i have no idea how, but hell those kids are still ‘new’ media

you see, mr. Jeff Kay (eeriely similar…no?) has put up a list of wvsr approved blogs/websites (lower left) oh it could be called a blog roll, but i know he’d hate that so i won’t call it that. well guess  who’s on it? go ahead, guess, no really i want you to guess, gooo ooonn.

yes, i’m on it. that’s right. a little nod from one of my favorite blog–er serial internet writers.

jimmy asks if there is pressure to start spell checking and using captial letters. you know, to set it up around here. i will refuse to change my ways now that i’m in the big leauges. the way i see it, the orchestral arrangements didn’t work for GNR when they got to the use your illusion era, so i’m gonna try to just keep it bidness as usual like. ok well i’m lazy and nothing’s gonna get me to proof read this shit. it’s boring enough to just write it, AND you want me to reread it?  don’t hold your breath, kiddies.

err right will this is all seeming a bit sad now, but fuck it, i’m happy and i dare say proud of this accomplishment…does this mean he visits here? shit, wow. crazy.  hmm, i think this requires some celebration this eve, bombay anyone?