Many of you have been wondering about the fabulous new features here on the blog, as evidenced by the stunned silence of a number of contributors. For those wondering how magic is made, I can tell you - one feature at a time. Here is a rundown on the lunch game technology which has recently come available.
1) The Gamecups: Featured above, one could argue all the real magic of The Lunch Game fits in a Dixie cup. Sure, we could use another paper cup, but between them are now 85 distinct parallel universes of lunch, all existing at the same time, any of which may become your future. I think that calls for the best paper cups we've got.
2) The MySpace page: If you haven't been to The Lunch Game's MySpace Page yet there is something wrong with you. All the cool kids are doing it. You know you could use another friend. Plus, you can meet everyone else who has joined in friendship with The Lunch Game. Not just a bunch of losers (yes, like us) but famous losers like the U.S. Pizza Team. Join today!
3) The Counter: As of 9am Friday morning a hit counter was installed just to give us some some idea of the traffic we are attracting. It's all the way at the very bottom. Go ahead and take a peek. On the way down you might see something interesting.
4) The Cobraphant Gallery: Beautiful and Majestic, Clever and Valiant, Heroic and Deadly, the Cobraphant is known by many adjectives. Check out the Gallery to see him fighting a Headless Ape armed nearly to the teeth. If you have pictures of the Cobraphant, please submit them.
5) The Webcam: In order to ensure a fair drawing, the TLG board has invested in a webcam for online auditing. The Logitech Quickcam was out of reach at $29.99, but almost a steal at $14.99 after mail-in-rebate. Still waiting for that check, by the way.
6) The Advertisement: The Lunch Game has now sold out. In order to finance the rapid growth (see everything above) TLG Admin has cautiously explored a union with somebody. You can find out who that person is if you click on the advertisement. Mind you, this is in no way a solicitation for ad-clicking, simply a reminder that should you stop to click on that advertisement, The Lunch Game stands to profit. Or so the theory goes. The most recent finance committee meeting yielded a proposal that when the money starts rolling in, Lunch Game participants will enjoy a lunch on the house. If you want to know how far away your free lunch is, check the hit counter below. If you aren't satisfied, tell your friends about this page. Only you can force them to view advertisements for your own selfish gain.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
How do they do that? On Dixie cups and other Lunch Game technology
Posted by Lunch Game Admin at 3:21 PM
Labels: Advertising, Cobraphant, Cobraphant Gallery, Dixie Cups, Hit Counter, MySpace, Technology, webcam
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I applaud this move towards greater transparency in governance. Still more evidence that The Lunch Game is not, in fact, like a sausage. Except that both are spicy, can give you indigestion, and may contain up to 50 ppmillion rat feces.
Where is the ppmillion rat feces counter? I think I can smell a new official TLG feature. Curiously, it smells like rat feces.
We at TLG are lucky to have Cobraphant fighting on our side. Imagine if that trunk was turned against you!
New suggestion: since we are busily upgrading our technology in other arens, perhaps we should consider a similar step with the technology of lunch choice. Namely: if we somehow automated the choice process to make a computer chose the number of the day, it would be far easier to create sideline TLGs, such as the Monday edition. It would also eliminate such problems as the heads/tails dilemma.
Won't the random number generator undermine the ability to audit the draw via TLG's official webcam?
The random number generator is not necessarily to be used for a drawing, but certainly to be used as a tool when TLG needs to randomly generate a number.
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