This message is here so you and I can both realize that this message is here. Yes.

The Bygone Initiative - The Aftermath08.15.08

Before I talked about The Preemptive Initiative, and people were going wild about it. I had dreams of some people saying that their lives were completely changed, and also a dream where some some people said that they were naming their children in preemptive ways also1. Today I would like to take a step in another direction to open up the possibility of applying the principle of “Let bygones be bygones” to everything. What that saying means that since something has already happened, there is no need to worry or stop over it. Forgive and forget, or forget and repeat the forgetting is the central theme in such an initiative.

Imagine if you followed my preemptive initiative on one day, and my bygone initiative on the other day. Would you feel happier? Would you feel sad? Would you come home in bandages? Or would you simply realize how funny life can be? You decide and let me know please. Allow me to explain what the Bygone Initiative can do for you in a day very briefly.


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  1. The preemptive baby naming trend is already true all over the planet, if you did not know. []
  2. Exceptions can exist to accommodate depressed and hopeless chocolate-loving souls in order to bring them up to speed through other channels. []
  3. Warning: you might have to give up your credit card pin in order to have a good bygone reaction if you run out of money. []

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Physical warning labels Bes thinks should exist07.29.08

A trash warning sign at UC BerkeleyWritten and drawn warning signs: they all probably all around you. They are under your keyboard, behind your monitor, under the mouse, on a battery, on a carton of milk, on the bread packet, on your phone, and even on your cat purchase receipt which may say “This cat may attack you if cornered.” Another sign that many people encounter may not only say “Warning - Wet Surface” but also show you an outlined person falling down on a huge yellow placard sign. Who could have thought that trash cans now are moody and only like certain kinds of trash to be put inside of them?

It is not that such things happen all the time, nor is it that such things never happen. Many of these labels exist in order to reduce the number of lawsuits and legal charges brought against a company for misinformation or for not properly informing the customer or users of certain products. In this article I would like to present to you some warning labels that they should have for physical things, to add not caution to life but fun. Maybe reading such signs may prompt you to do the very thing prohibited in that sign due to finding the sign funny. Who knows. I do, by the way, at least for my ownself.

BesZ’s 15 Physical Warning Labels List


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  1. Erin suggested the sleeping pills point in the post titled “3 random annoying things people say and do without thinking much []

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Twitter messages that exist because they exist06.25.08

Do you have a Twitter1 account? I do, and I call it “BesZ On Twitter” among other things, sort of like saying Bob on Drugs or Bes on Sprite. Just like other things in life, Twitter is a tool that many people use without understanding why they are using it. Many people on Twitter add nothing useful to their own lives or the lives of the Twitter machines2, yet they Twitter because they can. They Twitter so that you and I can look at their Twitter and wonder “Why?” I guess I should be grateful for the existence of such people: without them, people like me would either have gone extinct long time ago, or would have never existed.

With some people posting normal and nice Twitter updates, and with many others going psycho and posting everything they do in a day and claiming that they do not want attention, Twitter is one of the best examples of how technology can be used for good things and how technology can be abused and overhyped simply because of the existence of that technology. Today I would like to share with you some different Twitter messages that people can submit to Twitter for the sole reason of increasing their Twitter count and to get more of their life details into the attention of other people. And to appear cool also.

Twittering for no reason other than to Twitter


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  1. Twitter is basically an online announcement tool where you can let others know what you are thinking, doing, or anything else you wish, as long as you can fit it within the 140 word limit. []
  2. More strain on the machines :( even if it means more popularity and potential for the Twitter company. []
  3. Twitter followers are basically other registered Twitter members who have subscribed or chosen to follow your updates. Anything you Twitter is shown to those subscribers through their main Twitter page, and also through e-mail, instant messaging or cell phone updates if those people have chosen to receive your Twitter messages through such methods []
  4. Isn’t it interesting that it’s hard to find that many people who like a few things on Twitter but hate many other things, or vice versa, or that many people who look at Twitter in terms of its usefulness in life and its comparison to other existing tools which already do everything Twitter does? I am confused and find it interesting, as I think Twitter is overall a hype and brings only 2 main useful things to the table. Those 2 things can be discussed in a future article maybe. What do you think? []
  5. You did not forget the original meanings of the word “Twitter”, did you? 0_0 []

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The Preemptive Initiative - A Beginning05.13.08

Hello everyone. Today I would like to briefly explore the possibility of a preemptive world. Preemptive action, in its simplest form, is an action taken before the existence of the actual need for the commitment of such an action.

An example of a preemptive strike

Instead of giving you the typical war example, let me give you a different example. Imagine you are going somewhere with a cup of hot water in your hand. I accidentally bump into you and cause you to spill the hot water on your clothes. Now, I immediately slap you after that. You look at me very mad and confused, either slapping me back or asking “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING &*(^%$ @#$%^&?” to which I say “I slapped you because you were going to slap me.” My action, in such a case, was preemptive. I slapped even before you slapped me or showed signs that you were going to slap me1.


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  1. In real life, I would probably slap myself a few times if I cause you to spill something over yourself []
  2. Beware: I support pranksters being pursued to be brought to justice []

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Gone MacBook Gone10.24.07

If Ronald ever needed the help of the blogosphere, this is it. On October 23th, 2007, between 0700 and 1100 Central Standard Time, Ronald, from Ronalfy, lost his one and only child, the Apple MacBook Pro. Someone broke into his house and took the laptop child. Ronald is offering a $500 reward to anyone who can find his laptop undamaged and return it to Ronald, or help Ronald so that he can actually recover it and without any damages.

Ronalds’ cat was acting strange after the incident, indicating that the kidnappers of the laptop child had a struggle with the cat who probably tried to stop them. Or maybe laptop child screamed “Help help my love! We love each other when Ronald’s not around, so help me because these people are taking me away!” while the cat ran for cover and probably said “Screw you! I value life and sissiness!” and hid in the bathroom. When the cat probably came back out, the coast was clear, and the laptop child was missing.

1 month old baby laptop kidnapped! OH THE @#$%^&* HORROR!

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Bes Z’s 5 signs you spend too much time online in 200707.26.07

I know someone who cried once for not being able to check her e-mails for about 20 hours on a single day while on a trip. When I asked her if she was expecting some important e-mail, she simply told me she had a habit of checking all her e-mail accounts, even the ones that only get junk e-mail.

To understand the idea of wanting to go online a little bit better, this article will start with the very basics by telling you about the signs related to the feelings of wanting to go online a lot. This article assumes one thing: that when a person goes online in such cases, they are not expecting something important. They are simply going online because they want to.

Following are 5 random signs you spend too much time online in the year 2007. Some or all of these signs may have been taken from my personal life.

Bes’s 5 signs that you go online too much

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3 Reasons Why Daily Blog Tips Sucks07.08.07

With everyone wanting to blog these days, it can be hard to find something practical and concrete to apply to a blog right away in order to improve things. Daniel from Daily Blog Tips runs a nice ship called, surprise surprise, Daily Blog Tips, also known as DBT. DBT aims to help bloggers by telling them about a blog-related tip on an almost daily basis.

I like blogging, so it is interesting to see Daniel try to offer daily tips to bloggers to try their hand at different aspects of blogging. Here are 3 reasons why I think Daily Blog Tips sucks this year. Why? Because these 3 reasons are the very reasons Daily Blog Tips is and can be a very important part of the blogosphere, and the reasons I think people should be more like Daniel than like an A-lister who only wants to manipulate readers.

3 Reasons Why Daily Blog Tips Sucks

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5 ways people copy The Reasoner07.03.07

Someone recently told me about how they love the way I run The Reasoner. A day after they told me that, that nameless-blogger took a lot of the techniques I use here on The Reasoner and applied it to her own blog, while telling her readers that she has come up with those ideas herself.

I have been blogging in various forms for more than 7 years, so it is interesting for me when someone who earns a living from their blog or someone who copies me comes along and starts claiming blog expertise as their skill.

Another person I talked to about this told me to go ahead and talk about the things that people copy from my site. It sounds weird, since I usually do not brag about myself. So, after about 15 days of hesitating and rewriting this repeatedly, and after pointing out only the things that are clearly copies from my site, I would like to present to you here 5 ways many people copy The Reasoner. Some people give credit, while others simple act as if they were born with these skills. This post is going to be the very definition of bragging on many levels, so brace yourselves!

5 Ways People Copy The Reasoner

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5 Reasons You Are Not Poor In 200706.19.07

I got a call today from someone I had lent a few thousand dollars in 2003. That person had not contacted me for a while, so it was interesting for her to call me today and say something along the lines of “I’m sorry we haven’t talked for a while. I wanted to say thank you so much for helping me in the past, and I wanted to start paying you back starting from next year in small payments, if that’s ok.” Of course, that was ok for me since I know her a little bit, and I know she has good intentions. I think that is a nice thing to do: to call me and update me out of the blue.

Her phone call got me thinking today: How many people consider themselves poor overall? The person above was not poor but had a real emergency where she needed to borrow money to pay her ex-husband for her child’s custody. But, how can you realize whether or not you really are poor, even if you do not want to ask someone else for money?

In order to help people realize whether or not they are poor, I have created here a list of 5 reasons, or things, that probably hint that you are not a poor person in the year 2007. Some points are very specific, while others are general.

To make sure this list is fair for everyone, I will also list at least one exception to the rule, where the reason listed may not apply to some specific person.

5 Reasons You Are Not Poor In 2007

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Bes Z’s Next 5 plans for fast food places12.09.06

The fast food industry depends on both new and repeat customers to be hungry all the time. Companies are always on the lookout for new ways to make money. In August of this year, I introduced you to my “5 new plans for fast food places” that could be used to increase revenue.

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Bes Z’s Top 5 new plans for fast food places08.01.06

Many people know more about the location of nearby fast food places than the whereabouts of their close relatives. Whether it’s because of the necessity of survival through eating or the satisfaction one gets by buying food, the trend of depending on fast food and paying top dollar for it is starting to become something more than a cultural norm: it’s becoming a cultural necessity. Keeping that in mind, corporations are coming up with brilliant ways to make more money, while giving customers the same exact thing most of the time, and even less on many occasions. I have created and worked on a list of five new ideas that food companies may use in order to bring in millions more in profits.

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