SuperJesus, An Overview

I came across a pretty hilarious picture (ok, permutation) of Jesus the other day, and had some interesting thoughts as to what a situation with that kind of Jesus may have entailed. So, being me, I tracked down some other great versions of Jesus, and… here’s my interpretation of different kinds of Jesus and what he might be saying or doing.

It should also be noted that I stole these from random places across the Internet, where they had already lost any credible source or creator (so don’t email me saying I’m evil)… and I’m technically Catholic (grew up Catholic, then decided I’m Atheist/Agnostic in high school), so don’t yell at me about going to Hell.

click any of the pictures for larger versions

Badass Jesus

This is the posterchild for the NRA. Apparently Jesus invented shotguns 2000 years ago, and used them to defend himself from his enemies (like the Romans or Judas)… from a hilltop. I would have thought the Bible Belt’s gun-toting party members would have picked this up and ran with it by now. Especially after Joe Horn got cleared- just like he should be!

Cool Jesus

This is the Jesus you want to show up at your parties. Expensive sunglasses, open collared shirt, leather jacket, sweet facial hair, and an earring… he’s even cooler than Tom Cruise was in TopGun. And, hey, that “water into wine” trick? Probably comes in handy.

Dino Jesus

Don’t let anyone tell you different: Jesus lived during the time of the dinosaurs. It’s a well known fact that this BS known as “science” is just a bunch of lies, and dinosaurs were around much more recently than we’ve been told. If you poke around in the right places, you’ll find pictures of Jesus riding a dinosaur. Clearly we have been born 2000 years too late to have any fun.

Football Jesus

This isn’t just “Football Jesus”… this guy will serve you a Whopper in bed while executing a Hail Mary to his favorite receiver: God. God might be “the Big Guy”, but when it comes to football, Jesus calls the shots. And makes you burgers.

Goth Jesus

Not much to say here, besides that he obviously hates life and wants to die. Oh. Wait…

Rocker Jesus

“HELLLOOOOOOOO JERUSALEM! ARE YOU READY TO ROCKKKKKKKK? MY NAME’S JESUS, PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR FACES MELTEDDDDD! *guitar solo*”

Superhero Jesus

As the world’s first superhero, Jesus obviously greatly influenced Batman. He’s heavily muscled, angry, and ready to throw an old-fashioned beatdown on the “badguys”… who in this case, are probably the Romans. “*grunting noises* Alright. Who’s ready to bleeeeeeed?”

SuperJesus (different from “Superhero Jesus”)

Like Clark Kent, SuperJesus is that nice-guy farmboy you probably know, who just happens to have massive strength, ice breath, heat and X-Ray vision, super hearing, and, oh yeah, the ability to fly. He’ll give you a blessing from God, tell stories about how to be a better human, and then he might go fight evil as a secret identity. His Lex Luthor? The Devil. His Kryptonite? Probably a spear… or some wood and nails…

Tattoo Jesus

“Dude, check out this sweet tat I just got… instead of ‘Mom’, I got ‘Father’. You know, since I don’t really have a real mom and my dad’s the biggest Father ever, I figured why not? It’s not like it’s permanent… right?”

Thug Jesus

There are no words.

Zombie Jesus

He wants more than just your brains. He wants your soul! Well, he wants to eat your brains and save your soul, but what’s the difference? Either way you’re dead… but with this specific zombie, you have a better post-death experience than, say, the ones from Resident Evil.

Pissed Jesus

He will LITERALLY smack you in the face. No questions asked. As long as there’s a rumor about making fun of his brothers or sleeping with his mom… you’re in trouble. When that mighty hand hits you in the face, it doesn’t just leave a visible 5-star. He 5-star’s your soul too.

Thought of the Day- Sandstorm

[this is the legitimate “Thought of the Day For Today]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun

dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dundundun dun dun dun dun dun dun dundun dundun

BOOM

dundun dundun dundun

BEEP

dun dun dun dun dun

dun dun

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BOOM

daddaddadadsadadadadadadadadadaddadadadadadaddadadaddadadadadadadadadadadadaddadddadaddadadadd dadadadaddaddada

d

dadadddaddadaddadadadddadadada

nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nnyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu nyu

doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

[it gets better… read the whole thing]

Thought of the Day- Wanted

[this is really a “Thought of the Day For Yesterday”, which gives me an excuse to post another one later tonight]

I saw “Wanted” yesterday. It’s billed as an action/wtf movie with lots of cool action sequences, and alot of reviews actually compare it to the wtf-factor and gasp-rating of the original Matrix.

But, um, it’s not anything like that.

I won’t spoil anything… I just want to say two things:

  1. Angelina Jolie is super hot, as always. And, as expected, we get a naked look.
  2. I walked out undecided, and still can’t decide, as to whether it was a “really amazing movie” or “really totally craptastic”.

Purchase OneSwirl, via Ebay

I’ve mentioned already that OneSwirl is for sale… but now it’s available through Ebay.

See the official announcement.

mySocialBlog

Some of you may have poked around recently and found “My Library“, “My Theater“, and “My Info” under the “Meta” section recently.

These are part of a new open source project from my company, Intuitive Industries, called “mySocialBlog”, that aims to add social-type data to non-”walled garden” blogs… easily and with great panache.

It’s a very early release, v0.1, but it’s a step in the right direction.

See the official announcement.
See the project page.

Thought of the Day- Upcoming Projects

At a meeting tomorrow night, we’re going to (hopefully) decide whether or not to pursue the next project (it would actually be two projects at once) for Intuitive Industries.

I hope so, because it’d be “right out of left field” and cause everyone to go nuts about February of next year…

Thought of the Day- MediaTemple

MediaTemple is a good host… until you want them to keep your (gs) account up all the time (it’s constantly down for “maintenance” like it was tonight), or you’re on a (dv) account and they screw something up while refusing to fix it (”it’s not our problem, and you manage the server- not us”… heard that before).

Chew on that before picking them up as a host.

Thought of the Day- Bourne Conspiracy

I love the Jason Bourne movies almost more than I love The Matrix Trilogy, and I played the demo for the “Bourne Conspiracy” XBOX 360 game last night…

I’m in love.

This is what all those James Bond games should have been… amazing graphics with multi-dimensional gameplay. And the best part?

It feels like you’re in the movie.

Funding: An Insightful Insight

[aka “Funding != Good Idea” or “Funding Doesn’t Mean They’re Smart”]

I spoke to a recruiter via phone yesterday who was trying to interest me in getting a job with RockYou. When I politely declined, he wanted to know why, and I said something to the effect of “I have no interest in working for companies whose sole existence is, and always will be, dependent on outside funding and other people’s platforms…not to mention those without any real business plans or actual use value”.

His response? A resounding “I don’t think they would have gotten [insert large number here] of funding if they didn’t have value or a business plan.”


Hm.  Yes.  Quite.

So, out of that lovely event, comes this exciting installment of “Kyle telling you what should already be obvious.”

How VCs Work
Venture Capitalists are well known for investing in things that have either:

Already been funded
Already been proven successful

This isn’t true across the board, but when you look at the subset of VCs that invest in Internet-based “software” companies, the probability of truth gets much closer to 1.


Oh!  Lookz!  Ah cat copiez itzelfz!

Don’t believe me?

How many fully-funded Twitter clones are there?
Facebook clones?
“Digg killers”?
“Google [search] killers”?

Web 2.0 Is Not Business
Another widely acknowledged nugget of gold is that most “Web 2.0″ properties are not profitable. In fact, most of them have no idea how they could generate a revenue stream even remotely close to their operating costs, other than “oh, well we’ll just put ads on the site!”


Dr. Juice says “tell ‘em, boys”!

Good Idea? Yeah, Right.
One of my biggest pet peeves of the Internet at the moment is the “me too!” atmosphere. If one person does something that becomes popular (note: popular is not the same as successful), or gets a large round of funding, there’s immediately a gaggle of idiots who want to do the same thing, but with some twist.

Alot of good ideas don’t get funded, or even noticed. Why? Because no-one has done it yet, or it’s “too risky”. The big money would rather bet on something other people have bet on before, because it’s “tried and true”. So these groups of people with original ideas trundle on their own for awhile, and sometimes end up with a startup company that took years to put together while they cooked sausages at children’s festivals.


Where the true geniuses work.

Developer’s Platforms
Newsflash: basing your entire “business” (without revenue) around the whims of someone else is stupid, and roughly equivalent to swimming in the ocean while chewing on a giant electrical line that’s dangling from a satellite in orbit.

Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc. can change their APIs, data access levels, or platform structures at any time, for any reason. You want to develop a way to throw Zombie feet at your friend’s pig farms? Great. You want to create a company, and get funded, so you can do random “social activities” with other people through another company’s platform? Right.


Not entirely relevant.

One of the cardinal rules in running web software is that you should control as much of the user experience as possible. This is why Facebook has massive data centers instead of cloud-sourcing to someone like, say, Amazon S3… and you don’t see someone like Google betting the virtual farm on MySpace’s clunky architecture.

People Are Idiots
If you follow that motto, you’ll see the world clearly. Ok, maybe have alot less friends, but you’ll thank me for it. Why? Because once you realize that people are lazy and want to do the least work possible to get fame/success/fortune/whatever, you are able to see the giant flaws in their plans without falling into the potholes containing many fellow sheep.

There’s only two reasons why someone would assume that having funding equates to a “good idea”, a “great business”, a “revenue stream”, or “really smart people”:

They have no idea what they’re talking about
They’re an idiot


Game, set, and match.

Conclusion

So why, in all that is mighty, would anyone assume that an extravagantly funded Web 2.0 “software” company is going to exist in 5 years, be profitable, or even be remotely valuable to real people?

I have no idea.

p.s. If you want to cry and complain and argue that I “have no sources”, then use what little of that brain you may have to do some Google research yourself.

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Update (6/26/2008 4:00am PST): How fitting!  Mashable just put up a story about a major Facebook Application “magically disappearing”, and not due to something the app developers did… it either got “accidentally removed” or banned.  Hmmm… [see more]

Update (6/26/2008 1:15pm PST): Valleywag picked this up.  Nice!  And it seems that people agree with me…

Thought of the Day- Phone Tiredness

In case you didn’t already know, I’ve decided to not continue school and get a “real job”. That wasn’t the plan, as we (Intuitive Industries LLC) were hoping to have been funded or have sold OneSwirl by now, but it’s what’s happening.

I put my resume up today… 20 phone calls from recruiters, and 4 phone interviews. On Day 1. And a face-to-face interview tomorrow.

Talking on the phone is tiring.

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