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HEY, THAT’S COOL
A new company called “ChaCha” has a very interesting business model. The company answers any question you have pertaining to basically any subject - via text messaging. You text them a question like “What’s the capital of Delaware?” and they answer back with a short, concise answer, “Dover”. It’s a combination of computer and actual people helping to seek out the answer for you. So it’s basically like having a “phone a friend” available at all times. It is a free service and standard text messaging rates apply. [CNN link]
Text your question to: ChaCha (242242).
I decided to give this service a try. You can take screen shots on an iPhone, so I took a screen shot of the text messaging exchange. They say that you get a response “within a few minutes”. I received a “welcome to ChaCha” email about 3-4 minutes after the question and the actual answer about 7 minutes after the question. Pretty pretttty cool. (click for larger)
INTERNET SLANG OF THE WEEK
“NSFW”
This is embarrassing given that I blog daily, but the term “NSFW” is used to describe internet content (a link, picture, email, etc) that is “Not Suitable For Work“. For example, if you email a friend a picture of a hot chick’s boobs or something, you’d put in the subject “NSFW: Hot Chick” or something to that effect. I am a fan of this slang term and it should be used more often. Hopefully most of my readers would know that my website is usually NSFW.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK
BABY MAMA
OK hear me out. As you already know, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are hilarious. That’s no secret. Well, this movie does not disappoint. It’s the story of TIna Fey’s character being a 37-year-old businesswoman too busy to find a husband so she decides to pay $100 grand for a surrogate (Poehler). Poehler’s character, some would call eccentric, I call white trash - decides to move in with Tina Fey. Hilarity ensues. Extremely funny.
Why Chicks Would Like It: It’s “so cute!”. It has a lot of chick humor and a lot of maternity instinct type shit. Girls dig that kind of stuff, right? It also has a love interest situation between Greg Kinnear and Tina Fey.
Why Dudes Would Like It: Tina Fey is very very attractive in this movie and in a couple scenes she’s really hot. Some great eye candy - which is nice. Plus, Steve Martin is in it so if your roommate catches you watching it you can just be like “dude, Steve Martin…” It really is funny, guy or girl, doesn’t matter. Tina Fey kicks ass, no lie.
SONG OF THE WEEK
“Everybody Get Dangerous” by Weezer
VIDEOS OF THE WEEK
Star Wars according to a 3-year-old:
John McCain gets BarackRoll’d:
PICTURE OF THE WEEK
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First of all, definitely gonna use the NSFW acronym. very useful. Secondly, Baby Mama - hilarious, but stupid funny and no comparison to Grandma’s Boy or Super Troopers.
As for ChaCha, it is awesome! Like a very smart friend who always answers and always has the internet. You can literally ask anything. They can be pretty witty too, it’s funny.
Great post! Keep em comin!