You know what the problem with the Internet is? It’s that every knucklehead with a great idea can go online and blab about it. So, now, whenever I<\/i> have a great idea, and I search Google to make sure that I am the first person ever to think of it, I always wind up with, like 74,000 hits. Lame. Remember when you were a kid and you would say “blander-la blander-la gnart!” and touch a tree, and then think “I am the first person in the history of the world to ever say ‘blander-la blander-la gnart!’ and touch this tree’ and how that made you feel all special? Not any more! Now you enter “blander-la” into Google and the first thing you’ll find is some idiot’s blog entry about how he said that exact same thing while touching your tree seven months ago.<\/p>\n
I started thinking about this yesterday, when I had this hil-lare<\/i>-ious idea of taking the movie poster for My Big Fat Greek Wedding<\/i>, and Photoshopping it so that it contained pictures of Bill Gates and Keven Smith and whatever, and then renaming it My Big Fat Geek Wedding<\/i>! Ha! But then I foolishly decided to search Google for the phrase “My Big Fat Geek Wedding” and found out that I am the last person on Earth to think of this<\/a>. Stupid search engine.<\/p>\n Or here’s another. The other day my friend and I were eating Hatian Grand Slams at Denny’s, and he, my friend, was all like “hey, do you think that x to the nth power plus y to the nth power could possibly equal z to the nth power if x, y, and z are non-zero intergers, and n is greater than two?” And I said “no way, dude, because all semistable elliptic curves with rational coefficients are modular, so if n were greater than 2” blah blah blah. Well it doesn’t really matter what I said because it’s all moot!!<\/i> After dinner I was, like, “I bet I’m the first person to figure that out! I’m going to write about that on my blog.” But then I checked Google, and it turns out that some joker named Andrew Wiles said the exact same thing a while ago, the jerk.<\/p>\n So the moral of this story is: if you have a great idea, don’t be selfish and put it on the web or tell anyone about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know what the problem with the Internet is? It’s that every knucklehead with a great idea can go online and blab about it. So, now, whenever I have a great idea, and I search Google to make sure that I am the first person ever to think of it, I always wind up with, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}