OK, so I’m a bit of a geek. I was watching “The Big Bang Theory” on TV tonight, and at the end of each episode there is a brief (about a half a second) flash of what’s known as a CLP Vanity Card. Yep, CLP is Chuck Lorre Productions, very good.

Anyway, I have TiVo (said I was a bit of a geek) and I usually pause at the end of any CLP to read the vanity card. (Because I can’t read 300 words in a half a second.) Whatever, so, below is from tonight’s episode. This guy is brilliant. Read it.

CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #248

I believe that Newton’s first law of motion is the reason we will emerge from our current economic woes. That law states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an
object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an
unbalanced force. How does that relate to the financial #$%*storm we’re now cowering under? Allow me to explain. There are slightly less than seven billion people on this planet. Assuming that roughly half that number are either too young, too old, too lazy, or too loaded to work, that still leaves almost three and a half billion people getting up in the morning to chase the almighty dollar, the transcendent rupee, the zen yen,the dear ol’ euro, the what’s goin’ on yuan, the… well, you get the idea. Now, call me crazy (and many have called me far worse), but I happen to think that three and a half billion motivated people is one big damn
object in motion. And the only thing acting against that object is the friction caused by a small bunch of greedy, dumbass, screw-the-pooch, Ivy League pot stickers (the
unbalanced force). I therefore assert that the unbalanced force (you know who you are, shame on you), will eventually be overwhelmed by the object in motion (three and a half billion people with pluck, aka pluckers), thus allowing the object in motion to continue its relentless journey forward, thriving and conniving until it is once again slowed down by other unbalanced forces, or a very large meteorite. Or a plague. Or fundamentalists with nukes. Or atmosphere-eating nanobots. Or a super volcano. Or Skynet. Or Cylons.

I have to say I find it incredible and amazing that people are able to think in such abstract ways. While setting up this blog, I put in a lot of work, effort, research, time, frustration and some fun too. But what I mostly did was realize that there is so much more than meets the eye when it comes to blogs, code, and the geeks (I say that with total admiration) who create all this wonderful technology for us ‘regular people’.

Not to say that I am a complete maroon (lol) about technology, I seem to know more than most of the people I know, but the more I know the more I know I don’t know jack!

So thank you to everyone who thinks this stuff up, writes the code, creates the widget and plugins and generally make cool stuff to play with.