“So Cameron says you’re like totally into real estate?”<\/p>\n
My geeky son had brought an even geekier friend home from school. Somehow he ended up in my office. “Is that a question?”<\/p>\n
“Dood! It’s like an observa<\/i>tion! But, like, I’ve been playing with some of those real estate web sites? And I think I could, like, build my own?”<\/p>\n
He talked like that, every sentence a question or an exclamation. He orbited without periods. I said: “How interesting.” I think that sounds sufficiently like “go away” that a kid could take a hint. Didn’t happen.<\/p>\n
“So like picture a site called pussywillow.us?” He held up his fingers in Dr. Evil scare quotes. “The fun and friendly<\/i> way to find out how much your house is worth!”<\/p>\n
I said nothing. That didn’t work, either.<\/p>\n
“So you like type in your address? And then the software gives you a totally random value? And then, like, the web-cam is watching you? And if you scowl or frown or something, the value goes up? But then if you’re like smiling and happy it goes down? And it’s all totally random, it’s just like messing with your head! And then? When you get disgusted and quit? Then it takes the webcam video and posts it on youtube.com! Totally! Freakin’! Awesome!”<\/p>\n
“Wouldn’t you need a model release?” I could have kicked myself for encouraging him.<\/p>\n
“Dood! What are you tal<\/i>king about?”<\/p>\n
“Wouldn’t you need permission to show the video?”<\/p>\n
“Oh, man! You don’t know nuthin’<\/i> about Web Two! Dot! Oh!”<\/p>\n
Okayfine. “You’re right. Go find Cameron.”<\/p>\n
“No! No! Wait! I got another one, right? So, like, imagine a game? It’s built with like mapping software? And the game generates geocodes at random and takes you to those places? And your job is to destroy every house you see? But, like, what’s really<\/i> going on is, for every house you destroy, the game is sending like a purchase offer for a random amount of money to that house! It’s like reply.com, but even stoooop<\/i>ider!”<\/p>\n
Just then Cameron showed up, bless his heart. He said, “Leave my dad alone.”<\/p>\n
“Dood! He was like totally buyin’ it!”<\/p>\n
Like totally.
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