I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

It’s still a bad day
But it’s been made better with the Ricky Gervais show podcasts that KF downloaded earlier. It’s hilarious – but it’s not for everyone. Fans of The Office would probably find it interesting, though. Fans of our regular Itchy and Scratchy show at the office will also enjoy this. There are no fist/rocket/nerf gun fights, though.

The other amazing discovery I made this week was Yahoo! Answers. It’s really hard to describe why this product is so “addicting” – as some of the users call it – but let’s try.

The basic premise of Yahoo! Answers is this: someone asks a question, everyone jumps on in to answer it. To incentivise people to answer well, you get 10 points for getting picked as the Best Answer, as judged by the person who asked the question. The person who asks the question has to pay 5 points to ask, so that there are more answers than questions. Scratchy says that’s so that the product can be called Yahoo! Answers, not Yahoo! Questions. So crever hor!

You get points for participating in silly things, like casting a vote for what you think the best answer is, or for giving the best answer a thumbs up. If you’re the answer that got a thumbs up, you get points again.

So at the end – your score gets tallied – and you collect points to move on to the next level of expertise. So for example, everyone starts with 100 points. You need to get to 250 points to get to Level 2. So if you answer 15 questions and get picked as Best Answer for all 15, you’re there! Simple enough, innit?

Not until you see the questions that are asked.

And yet, I’m quite glued to it – mostly because I want to keep my score ahead of Eeevahn. We made a mad dash to Level 2 over the week, and now that we’ve reached it, and we need another like 800 points to get to the next level, we kinda lost steam. We’re just like cruising on now.

It’s sad, and juvenile, but it was sure fun. I get to go, hi – I’m so and so, Yahoo! Answers Level 2. This will bring positive effects to my sad life I’m sure.