Welcome to Amazon’s New Headquarters (We Hope!)
Everyone wants a good stimulus now and again, and most of us will take it any way we can get: mentally, emotionally, visually, aurally, orally, manually, genitally, olecranally (when adequately insured and lubricated), and, of course, financially. Thus it was … Continued
Jerk-Lit #1: Introduction, and A Review of Ryu Murakami’s “From the Fatherland, With Love”
Disgraced former librarian Nancy Pearl gives the following advice on deciding whether to read a book: If you’re fifty years of age or younger, give a book fifty pages before you decide to commit to reading it or give it … Continued
How F*cked Am I?
Occasionally every day at work I spend an hour or two eavesdropping on my colleagues. I scribble any original thoughts they have down in my little green book of memoranda and, if an idea turns out to be worth anything, … Continued
MYLES Test #1: Seinfelt
The Hypnotic Jerks Computer Science Division has for years been testing potential solutions to hard AI problems, having already solved AI problems of the soft, poached, and over-easy varieties. The details of their work are, natürlich, above top secret, but … Continued
Advice: How Do I Write A Blog Post?
Dear Hypnotic Jerks, I’ve been trying to become a part-time blogger but every time I try to write, I just freeze up and I can’t type a single word. I feel like everything I want to say is boring, irrelevant, … Continued
Full Effect – Motownphilly
We here at HypnoticJerks.com consider ourselves observant. Not really observant of our own actions or appearances, but we are really good at observing other humans and their human-like behavior. While listening to some “Throwback Thursday”-type playlists, I came to a … Continued
Hypnotic Jerks
I have no shortage of unfunny things to say, but I’ll try to confine them to one post a week. We thought we would never be discovered. If you’re reading this, you’ve made it past our layers of security: the … Continued