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Larry and Valery are totally dating now, its disgusting.

30 in 30 III - 2.5

   Alright I was afraid that this year it would just be me and a very few other established nutballs doing 30 in 30 but it turns out we've actually got a large number of participants. I think the total roll call now consists of (in no particular order) emd, roter_terror, emosnail, apoplecticfittz, otimus, pavel_lishin*, eazyt*, bartgroks*, fighting_fifi*, insolent_pool*, shid*, trembyle, xaositecte*, citharistria*, gerbilgrrl, professor_david, anonymous_frosh*, punitrebel*, citizene*, & orwell_troll* (* = first timers). I may even have forgotten someone, and a number of these people will doubtlessly fall by the side of the road before this gruelling blogathon is over, but this is what we're looking for.

   THIS is not today's entry for me (trying to cut down on the metaposts). I just wanted to encourage all the newcomers in the spirit of 30 in 30.
   (1) My favourite thing about 30 in 30 is the sense of community that develops among the diverse bloggers by the end. We start out as a motley group of people from different people's friends pages, and even those of us that know eachother come out of our usual mentality of blogging it alone -- and by the end we're a community and we're building on eachother's ideas and we're all intereacting. And so I say unto you intrepid bloggists who have taken up the call:
   (a) go forth and read the entries of the other participants;
   (b) and verily thou shouldst comment unto their entries! (c) in fact, feel free to steal their ideas like the blogpirate that you are!! Well not really. There's posts that are inseperable from the original creative spark that created them and can't be copied, but then there's ideas that one can build on. For example in a past 30 in 30 someone posted five ideas for television series, and then two others did the same (with different ideas), and that was appropriate. Or shid recently posted a meme that was simple yet amusing and I might use it myself if I get really desperate. And some blogstunts are so incredibly epic they stand as a challenge there would be incredible honour in emulating, such as teh time apoplecticfittz spent 24 hours in a greenhouse (!!!). In pitiful attempts to emulate, incomple spent several hours at a starbucks, and I spent 16 hours on a train... Anyway, the moral of the story is that if someone does some awe inspiring blogstunt you are encouraged to try to one-up them or at least make a pitiful attempt to follow suit, and you get ultimate blogpoints if you spend 24 hours in one place and blog about it ... and you should add blog to every word that is remotely blogpropriate.
   (2) Remember, you're doing it for the lulz -- posting an entry of some kind every day is actually pretty easy, I mean I did it for practically the whole month of April without even trying. Traditionally the spirit of 30 in 30 lies in writing posts that anyone would find interesting; or at the very least it doesn't require knowing who you are or having an interest in your life to find it interesting. We call this theory of blogging megabloggery, and I wrote about it extensively when I first discovered it (see subsequent day for more blogological theorizing, and one is encouraged to post their own theorizing). Any participation is better than no posting, but I encourage you all to make every effort to ratchet up the funny.

   (3) Best day 2 entry in my opinion I think is going to go to apoplecticfittz for his anti-sudoku entry. Aside from the fact that its funny, note how the topic is one which many people are familiar with, and the thesis interesting and controversial.


Picture of the Day Entry - (because really, no entry is complete without one)

Daisy makes a theatrical aside as if to say "does he really think I believe he's going to give me the nutella pizza? (and yet there's a glimmer of hope there)


Previously on June 2nd in the Blogosphere
   Two Years Ago on Emosnail: Commercials that Suck - And a graphic of my "friends-network" on thefacebook.com at that time. Now I have 210 friends at Davis on thefacebook and it doesn't give me the network graphic option.
   Two Years Ago: in 30 in 30 - Day two bring a lul in the lulz, possibly because they blew the good joke they'd been saving on Day 1 and haven't started coming up with things for 30 in 30 yet. Everyone posts, but not much stood out to me on this inspection. stephenl is already making a delirious phone post, vowing to "blog at any cost" despite a lack of internet access; and apoplecticfittz declares he's going to grow a Hitler / Rob Roy mustache (Lesson 1: even a simple entry can become quality 30 in 30 material if accompanied by a well-suited picture).
   One Year Ago: Textmessege Clearout - I clear out the textmesseges in my cellphone to make more room in its piddling memory, and post the best textmesseges here instead. Squirrels are prominently featured.

30 in 30 III - 3 - Dress Your Best, or Not

   Now, though earlier today I issued an encyclical urging you all not to post about your daily lives, I'm going to go ahead and do just that. But wait, before you declare me the antichrist, let me note that I bring you a photo essay -- a photo essay with drunken debauchery, people dressed up, and people practically naked! This, my friends, is almost always a recipe for an acceptable blogging. Also I already posted a less underbloggist entry today, and though I recused that one as being too recursive (being about 30 in 30 itself), I think together these two entries should meet blogthodox requirements.

   Last night Kristy & I attended both my Φ A Δ (Pre Law) formal & then Gina Scheffel's "Dress Your Best .. Or Not!" Party.

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   Or see all these pictures and some more from thte party that I didn't work in here on flickr.


   For no particular reason I thought I'd link to one of my all time very favourite 30 in 30 posts now to inspire you all: Jesus Cthulhu.
   As to my best day 3 post choice, I'm not gonna beat around the bush, its going to apoplecticfittz again. Though original megabloggist philosophy¹ frowned upon the use of multimedia as taking away from the technique & craft, it was quickly seen that the use of images very greatly enhanced the achievable hilarity in entries. Even those without digital cameras can still find images on the internet to enhance their entries, and I would say I definitely encourage this. It helps counteract the debilitating effects of TL;DR, and frankly I think some of you need to turn some attention to the TL;DR issue.
   And so my point is: that apoplecticfittz's post for today is a brilliant example of how a simple office prank can be turned into a hilarious blogccomplishment through effective use of multimedia.

   Another example of good use of multimedia I'd like to recognize is orwell_troll's first post (ever, actually). The simple addition of a 51st star to the US flag demonstrates how very simple a brilliant idea can be. In addition to the aforementioned Brent "Darth Laabs" Laabs, I'd like to give a shout out to the other people who have either joined 30 in 30 since my last post or I just forgot them at that time: gerbilgrrl, professor_david, the mysterious anonymous_frosh, punitrebel, and the venerable citizene (reporting from Singapore).


Previously in the Blogosphere
   Three Years Ago Today: UCD MUN Conference 2003 - First annual UCD MUN Conference. To this day they were my favourite committee ever.
   Two Years Ago: 30 in 30 I, Day 3 - shekb declares the pulitzer prize "tapped out." I didn't think the entry was that funny but comments from other participants seem to laud it as blogging gold. lerani posted about Dennis Quaid & the Sharks, and how you can get him to touch your enemies. stephenl decides that “The fact is, girls can't keep their pants on when they encounter a guy who's big into anime,” which is further proven by the fact that shid is now engaged. Also, bloglarious as usual, apoplecticfittz posts a must-see entry about gummy bear porn - I swear its tasteful ::caugh, get it?::.
   Year Ago Today: 30 in 30 II, Day 3 - From the Field - Phonepost abilities unexpectedly failing me, I desperately make a post from some random person's house in Santa Barbara. Not much of a post, but I had to use maximum intrepidness to get it done at all and its the thought that counts, no?