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Lincøln
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1 + 55 points

(nearly) Pointless by Lincøln

October 8th, 2007 8:35 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Submit a completion to this task that is barely worth a single point.

Hope for votes.

I was in San Francisco this last weekend, and I decided to drive home along California One. To take in the sights. So as I'm driving along I notice a cool rock formation with a tunnel in it down on the water. The angle from the road sucks, so I decide to pull over and go and photograph it from close up. When I get to where it is (after a lot of effort climbing and crawling through rugged trees and underbrush and across a field with cows chillaxing), I realize that the only good angle is going to come from sea level. So I have to climb down a cliff to get to the place to take the photo. The cliff I have to scale is ridiculously steep and the rock dangerously crumbly. It was when I was halfway down the cliff that I realized this was a rather pointless excercise that would probably end in my demise. Two things crossed my mind (one of them wasn't to give up, for whatever dumb reason), one was I wished somebody was there with me, not to help me, but in case I fell and died in the Pacific, that they would know what happened. Which would be better than the cops finding my car by the side of the road with the keys in it and all of my stuff rocking the back seat and wondering what might have happened (they'd probably figure out by contacting my family that I had just seen "Into the Wild" the week before and assumed that I had tried to do what he did, only better). The other thought I had was "Why am I doing this? For a photo? This is truly pointless." Then I remembered hanging out with Lank the night before and he was talking about the pointless task that was worth only one point. And when he mentioned the task, I couldn't imagine what would be worth only one point and still be worthy of a praxi. Then, on that rocky craggy cliff, I figured this was it. Risking life and limb by climbing down a cliff to take a damned picture was really only worth one point, but still elaborate enough to warrant a praxi. So here you go. Nearly pointless:

- smaller

Driving South

Driving South

Good 'ol driving self portrait.


California One

California One

This is about where I was when I saw what I saw that made me do what I did.


The Cliff

The Cliff

Why would I even think of climbing down that? I must be a retard.


The shot

The shot

Was it worth it?



11 vote(s)

5

Malaysian Eddy

 5

Blue

 5

Scarlett

 5

The Villain

 5

Bex.

 5

JTony Loves Brains

 5

Alana Abbott

 5

Adam

 5

Not Here No More

 5

rongo rongo

 5

GYØ Ben


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18 comment(s)

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posted by The Villain on October 8th, 2007 8:53 PM

This is clearly worth at least 2 points.

No Votes!

P.S. What's wrong with your hand?

My hand
posted by Lincøln on October 8th, 2007 8:59 PM

Doorhenge tried to take my hand yesterday. It didn't succeed. All I suffered is a relatively minor wound. And doorhenge no longer has any glass that could possibly injure the norms. Mostly due to the efforts of Anna One and Lank and Loweck. I mostly just bled.

(no subject)
posted by Jellybean of Thark on October 8th, 2007 9:24 PM

Five points at the very least.

(no subject)
posted by Lizard Boy on October 8th, 2007 11:21 PM

Five? We give people 10 points for making a 5-word sentence.

Seriously, if you were to make a task "Scale a cliff." how many points would you suggest?

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posted by Lincøln on October 8th, 2007 11:35 PM

I don't know how much a "scale a cliff" task would be worth, but for scaling a cliff out in the middle of nowhere with deadly violent sea underneath, alone without telling anybody is just stupid so whatever the points would be worth, I figure you gotta subtract that number minus one from the total for being retarded. Which is why I think I deserve one point for this completion.

(no subject)
posted by Bex. on October 9th, 2007 1:36 AM

Hey, retarded is what many tasks are all about!

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posted by Malaysian Eddy on October 9th, 2007 7:53 AM

nice!

I have done stupider things with less of a pay off!
posted by Blue on October 9th, 2007 8:21 AM

I think it was worth it.
Geeze Bex with all that advertising and shameless self promotion you might as well just start a campaign trail!!!

(no subject)
posted by Malaysian Eddy on October 9th, 2007 8:42 AM

I agree with you...
what's with all the links on other people's tasks?!!!

(no subject)
posted by Lincøln on October 9th, 2007 11:12 AM

OK, now with your votes the task is worth what El Capitan and Lizard Boy (and maybe The Villain) think it should be worth. And I see no harm in all of the links, maybe Bex is starting a campaign? Regardless of links, I absolutely love the hidden text that's been popping up everywhere.

It was worth it
posted by The Villain on October 9th, 2007 6:29 PM

That picture is amazing!

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posted by Bex. on October 10th, 2007 11:10 PM

I forgotta vote! Are you saying you would vote for me, buddy? Cuz I would love to. Maybe i'll ask Sean to unretire it for a minute. But I'm not farming, by the way, I'm adding to the conversation. Lincoln called us retards in that task. Retards. Conversation. *EDIT* OOoops. I forgotta vote again after writing this first bit. Here ya go: Fleur.

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posted by Lincøln on October 10th, 2007 11:58 PM

Hey, I voted for your chicken clucking. And you know that I used "retard" as a term of endearment.

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posted by The Vixen on October 11th, 2007 12:03 AM

Peacocks are pretty retarded though. Sorry (about the randomness), I don't know how to do your magical invisi-text. You guys are just way too cool for me...

magical invisi-text
posted by Blue on October 11th, 2007 8:27 AM

Fucking Right!

What magical invisi-text???

You're not so invisible...
posted by Fonne Tayne on October 11th, 2007 12:44 PM

It's funny that invisi-text shows up on my 'updates' page.

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posted by Blue on October 11th, 2007 1:09 PM

It's because the html is parsed.

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posted by rongo rongo on May 30th, 2008 7:44 PM

I have to mention that sometime when I hang out with people who actually have developmental disabilities (what we used to call retarded), I'm embarrassed to realize that I do way more stupid stuff than they do.