Breaking News!
It is with great pleasure that, after a lot of negotiation, I am able to announce that Occam’s Typewriter is moving! The good folk at Scientopia have agreed to pay all of us to blog for them.
So we’re just ironing out the small print in the contracts and will be blogging there from later today, 1st April.
I wanted to announce this earlier, but we also had an offer from Coca-Cola. Thankfully (for the sake of artistic integrity) Scientopia offered more money.
Hey, I’d LURRVE a Babycham. D00d.
Awesomesauce! Can’t wait to begin banking the Big Blogga cheques.
I am only moving if they promise to implement MT4. Within the next three years. And I demand to have at least two separate, incompatible, systems for logging in.
Wow, well done OT bloggers! Although does that mean I will have to update my bookmarks again?
I hadn’t thought of blogging as a source of a second income….cheers Richard!
Richard,
Any truth in the rumor that fees will be individualized for former OT bloggers according to Google Analytic statistics?
Unfortunately Scientopia don’t have stats, so no.
Do I get to smell Dr Isis’ shoe collection?
Actually, part of the deal was that she gets your crocs, and you get her heels.
At last! Now I can afford to tart up my wardrobe with some Naughty Monkeys. Thanks, rpg!
::runs off to start a Twitter account::
HEEEYYYYYY!!!! why am i not paid to write a blog for scientopia?????? i am fucking leaving right this instant! i’m gonna join occam’s typewriter!
(yes, folks, you read it here first!)
This is outrageous!
I’m off to open negotiations with LabSpaces.
Uh, Cath: the deal was contingent on you coming along. If you back out now, the whole thing’s off.
Well, if you can negotiate without me, I’m sure you can move without me.
Bloody splitter.
Pot. Kettle.
Anyway, making one move makes it easier to make another. I mean, what did moving to OT really do for any of us?
I do like the layout and the stats and the increased traffic and the community, but c’mon. Really?
It’s not fair that we’ll be paid according to hits on our webpages. It’s not my fault no one reads my blog. I’m going with Cath.
Sweet!
Right, the former-OT bloggers of North America it is, then.
I said: “Unfortunately Scientopia don’t have stats, so no.”
I reckon anybody who can’t read comments properly doesn’t deserve paying.
Right. That’s the type of Philistine pig ignorance of come to expect from you non creative garbage, you sit there on you spotty behinds…
Is this a war starting across the Atlantic? UK solidarity?
Leave it, Steve, ‘e’s not wurf it. Let’s get outta here.
Look, you’ve got it all wrong! You don’t NEED to follow ME, You don’t NEED to follow ANYBODY! You’ve got to think for your selves! You’re ALL individuals!
Yes! We are all individuals!
@Cath and @Athene
Talk about impostor syndrome–he thinks he’s the messiah!
I’m not the messiah. I’m a very naughty boy.
He’s not the bloody messiah, I’ll tell you that much for nothing.
Only the true messiah doesn’t admit he’s the messiah. He IS the messiah!
Let’s split anyway. Who wants blogs all about religion…
Hang on Steve, don’t extrapolate wildly. We don’t all blog all about religion, I totally deny that.
Paid? Is it too late to
bribe RPGsubsidize OT and become a *regular* blogger? And what about the Irregulars anyway? If we divide the number of guest posts by the total number of posts and apply a ratio, I’ll be rolling in……never mind, maybe not.
Also – WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!
Sh*twigs, Cath made that joke already. Soz.
[Cartman voice]Screw you guys – I’m going HOME to Nature Network![/Cartman voice]
You guys crack me up.
Epic win. Congrats OT-ers!
Cath, Angry says he’d be glad to blog with you as long as your punch lines aren’t funnier than his.
you’re all crazy ;) (I read this too early in the morning and thought I was still dreaming….)
and Cath, if you need any backup – need not look any more, I’m always prepared (I am after all, a scout) :)
Thank you, Brian. Richard’s been trying to coax me back into the fold via back-channel offers to make videos with him, but it’s too late now.
I’ll never trust you again, Cath.
*flounce*
Do I have to drink tea?
AND eat watercress sandwiches, lunch, tea and dinner.
No, but cucumber sandwiches are de rigueur.
With Coca-Cola, bien sûr.
Bumflappery. Comments crossed. What rpg said.
Mmmmm. Coca-cola products.
Who makes Dr. Pepper? I’ll blog for them.
They’re splitters, Cath. Used to be part of Cadbury Schweppes, now Dr. Pepper Snapple.
F%#king blogging platforms – how do they work?
We’re actually working on a deal with Vitamin water over here at LabSpaces. They have science to back up their claims, at least.
Excuse me Madam, does this bus go to the station?
Cath, Kristi – all part of Pepsi I’m afraid. But you prolly knew that already.
Henry – no. Have a kitten.
[plz to insert random cursing about not being able to put kitteh pix in comments]
This post has been the most popular on OT since… well, forever, basically. By a factor of two.
Well done, and thanks to everyone for sharing the joke.