{"id":2042,"date":"2007-08-15T23:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T05:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/my-worst-ideas\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T01:08:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T07:08:04","slug":"my-worst-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/my-worst-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"My Worst Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/alqaedatalk-logofull.jpg\" title=\"alqaedatalk-logofull.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/alqaedatalk-logofull.jpg\" alt=\"alqaedatalk-logofull.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read once that for someone to have good ideas, they need to have a lot of ideas. I like that concept. It&#8217;s not uncommon for me to fall flat on my face with really bad ideas, but those that know me know that I have a LOT of ideas. Fortunately, it&#8217;s usually the good ones that people hear about.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am humbled before you all, letting you know about two REALLY bad ideas I had once. It was to open two discussion forums for TurbanTalk.com and AlQaedaTalk.com  &#8211; My idea was for them to be parodies. AlQaedaTalk.com would be a place for Al Qaeda operatives to get emotional support for things like dating, mingling at cocktail parties, getting along with their parents, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I was very serious about opening these sites until more than a couple people mentioned that the parody might be lost on some people and the FBI would probably pay me a visit. That didn&#8217;t sound like fun to me, so I never went live with them. I DID however have logos created for them &#8211; and here they are as proof of some of my incredibly bad ideas&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if anyone ever questions your IQ &#8211; just say to them: &#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m not the sharpest burrito in the elevator.&#8221; That will usually keep them busy thinking for a while so you can get back to work.<\/p>\n<p>And they say Americans are jaded&#8230;..Hmpfff!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/turbantalk-logofull.jpg\" title=\"turbantalk-logofull.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/turbantalk-logofull.jpg\" alt=\"turbantalk-logofull.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read once that for someone to have good ideas, they need to have a lot of ideas. I like that concept. It&#8217;s not uncommon for me to fall flat on my face with really bad ideas, but those that know me know that I have a LOT of ideas. Fortunately, it&#8217;s usually the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-wW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}