Thursday, December 16, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
1. Pillage, then burn.
2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.
5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.
9. Never turn your back on an enemy.
10. Sometimes the only way out is through. . . through the hull.
11. Everything is air-droppable at least once.
12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot in head.
13. Do unto others.
14. "Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?"
15. Only you can prevent friendly fire. ]
16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.
21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.
29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
31. Only cheaters prosper.
34. If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.
35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.
36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'
38. Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients.
2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.
4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.
5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.
6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.
9. Never turn your back on an enemy.
10. Sometimes the only way out is through. . . through the hull.
11. Everything is air-droppable at least once.
12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot in head.
13. Do unto others.
14. "Mad Science" means never stopping to ask "what's the worst thing that could happen?"
15. Only you can prevent friendly fire. ]
16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.
21. Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.
29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
31. Only cheaters prosper.
34. If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.
35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.
36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'
38. Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients.
Read More: A Personal Appeal from blog founder Saurav Das
Pick up a newspaper or a book once in a while. Surprisingly they still print those. Weird right? I got a lot of funny looks ten years ago when I started talking to people about blogging.
Let’s just say some people were skeptical of the notion that an eigth grader from India could coherently put together a string of pithy remarks – all for the simple purpose of intellectual masturbation.
No ads. No agenda. No strings attached.
A couple of months after its founding, nearly 4 people subscribe to this blog and its nonsense – almost a third of my gtalk friends list.
It is the 5 billionth most popular blog in the world – but wise-acher isn’t anything like a monetized blog. It is a pfaff machine, written by a coffee crazed lunatic making one entry at a time. You are unfortunately a part of the community. And I’m writing today to ask you to protect and sustain your damaged brain.
Together, we can keep it free of bullshit and subliminal advertising. We can keep it open – you can use the information in wise-acher any way you want. We can keep it growing – spreading the ability to pfaff everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone.
Each year at this time, we reach out to ask you and others all across the wise-acher community to help sustain our mind-numbing enterprise with a modest donation of 2 beers, 3.5 pizzas, 5 smokes or more.
If you value wise-acher as a source of mis-information – and a source of plagiarism – I hope you’ll choose to act right now.
All the best,
Saurav Das
Founder, wise-acher.blogspot.com
P.S.: wise-acher is about the power of people like us to do mediocre things. People like us write wise-ass facebook entries, one word at a time. People like us fuck it up, one dislike at a time. It's proof of our collective potential to damage the world.
Let’s just say some people were skeptical of the notion that an eigth grader from India could coherently put together a string of pithy remarks – all for the simple purpose of intellectual masturbation.
No ads. No agenda. No strings attached.
A couple of months after its founding, nearly 4 people subscribe to this blog and its nonsense – almost a third of my gtalk friends list.
It is the 5 billionth most popular blog in the world – but wise-acher isn’t anything like a monetized blog. It is a pfaff machine, written by a coffee crazed lunatic making one entry at a time. You are unfortunately a part of the community. And I’m writing today to ask you to protect and sustain your damaged brain.
Together, we can keep it free of bullshit and subliminal advertising. We can keep it open – you can use the information in wise-acher any way you want. We can keep it growing – spreading the ability to pfaff everywhere, and inviting participation from everyone.
Each year at this time, we reach out to ask you and others all across the wise-acher community to help sustain our mind-numbing enterprise with a modest donation of 2 beers, 3.5 pizzas, 5 smokes or more.
If you value wise-acher as a source of mis-information – and a source of plagiarism – I hope you’ll choose to act right now.
All the best,
Saurav Das
Founder, wise-acher.blogspot.com
P.S.: wise-acher is about the power of people like us to do mediocre things. People like us write wise-ass facebook entries, one word at a time. People like us fuck it up, one dislike at a time. It's proof of our collective potential to damage the world.
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