Weblog Sin Pies

By Charley Daniels

I read this question and I said to myself, “Who is Jose Castillo and why did pirates have him?” It took me probably a full 20 seconds to realize it’s a baseball question (I didn’t read the answer options while I was considering this, obviously). Then I thought about what an awesome world I’d live in if that were a news question.

Will the pirates who captured Jose Castillo regret the decision to let him go? And why? Was he a good hostage for leverage? Or is he unstoppable when seeking revenge? Will he hunt the pirates and their families while they sleep? Do pirates have families that they care about? Oh, wait, it’s just a baseball question. I don’t know anything about baseball.

By Charley Daniels

I’m self-imposing a rule whereby posting a buzzbite alone does not count toward NaBloPoMo. That’s cheating. So this is update 1.5, for those keeping track.

I just think the current results of this poll are interesting, and so I’m sharing:

By Charley Daniels

By Charley Daniels

For months I’ve tried to write at least 12 or 15 polls per day for BuzzDash. What can I say, I’m a dedicated member of the polls-as-entertainment community. You should be too.

Some days it’s tough, and I sit there staring at the wall. On those days, I often come up with questions like this:

But other days nothing happens. I stare, sometimes so hard the fire alarm goes off — or it would, if it were set to detect intense staring. And on those days, almost without fail, one word pops into my head: “dribble.” Or variations: “dribbling,” “dribbles,” etc. I don’t know why. What is my mind trying to tell me? I usually push the thought away and focus on other things, but the next time I try to come up with poll questions, it almost always returns. It’s never there during other times, even if I’m concentrating really hard. At work, when I’m having trouble recrafting sentences, it’s not there. When I’m watching Jeopardy! and the answer is stuck on the tip of my tongue, but I have to say something, anything, because it’s almost too late, I never blurt out, “DRIBBLING!” Subconsciously, I really want to write a question about dribbling, I guess. I mean, what else could it be? So I did:

Granted, there’s nothing really special about this question, but I’m hoping it cures me of this distracting affliction. So far so good.

By Charley Daniels

The results are the interesting part:

So far a majority of people like to see children publicly mess up. That’s what I voted for too, of course, but I figured I’d be in the minority. Maybe more than half of the people are like me after all. And if nothing else we like to see kids fail, so we at least have that in common.