Blog: "Good vs. Better"
by Paul Jury

Got this fortune with my Chinese food the other day:


What?

It took me a minute to even guess what they meant by this. At first I thought it was saying "If you're the enemy of good - this is, evil - you're better off." So, like… good is OK, but evil is awesome? Crime pays? What?

Then, taking it a different way, I realized they probably meant "It's OK to be good, but better to be better." Like, 'don't settle for mediocrity.' (Um, couldn't they just have put THAT in the cookied and saved everybody a lot of trouble?) OK… but what? Good and better are enemies? Like they fight to the bitter end?

I'm not sure I follow, exactly, so let me plug their reasoning into a couple other statements:

"Hot is the enemy of warm."
"Cold wants to get in a fight with cool."
"Ecstatic is the exact opposite of happy."
"Furious wants to beat the holy living shit out of angry".

And so on.

Those Chinese make great cookies, but their comparisons could use a little work.



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Sam:  
 		You know what the Internet needs? More blogs.
Paul:  
 		I agree. But at least our blogs are sometimes about these sweet videos we're trying to share with the world.
Sam:  
 		Being a writer is fun. I wonder what we would've done if we were alive a century ago.
Paul:  
 		Maybe we would've created videos. Viral videos.
Sam:  
 		I think we would've been more worried about real viruses. Like whooping cough or consumption.
Paul:  
 		Was that still around in 1907? I only know it from Oregon Trail.
Sam:  
 		I only know about Oregon Trail from when I got bored with Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. The game, not the television show with Rockapella.
Paul:  
 		Those guys were hilarious. Definitely TiVo-worthy.
Sam:  
 		I have more mp3s of a capella music than I should really should admit.
Paul:  
 		Are you going to throw those on your iPhone? Or iPod? Or Microsoft Zune?
Sam:  
 		No, I already packed those with the funniest videos we've made. In case I ever bump into Steven Spielberg or Matt Groening or Jessica Alba on the street, I can show them the hilarity.
Paul:  
 		Jessica Alba wouldn't be interested in our efforts to go viral.
Sam:  
 		She would if that virus was consumption.






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