A Bit Depressed and Respect

These days I am a bit depressed.

I am not respected in the comedy scene.  That's not entirely true.  But not by people who haven't seen me on stage (which since I'm not getting tons of stage time is alot).  But people who've seen me know that I'm good.  They actually know that I'm really good.

I'm really concerned about getting respect from people who don't even bother to see me before they disrespect which is crazy.  

But I can still feel the disrespect.  

I think the worst thing about how I feel right now is that I expected to get into New York Comedy Club.  I really expected it.  I worked really hard.  I did everything I was supposed to.  I generally was a good guy.  I really was.  But there is some ugly rumor out there about me that is kind of crushing my dreams and nobody will let me know what it is.  And I know it's hurting me.  And I know it stole NYCC's late nights from me.  And it hurts.  Because it shouldn't have.

I guess this is the most hurtful thing.  Because I thought I earned it.

But I don't think that's a great reason to be sad.  

Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy both came through the Comic Strip.  I think the best thing I can do is work really hard and get passed there.  It's a good club and I have friends there.  And it's not as clique-y.  And I'm friends with people there.  And it's got a great pedigree.  And it's in my neighborhood.  Which is pretty great.  And they don't have Roast Battles.  

I think I can do well there.

So I'll focus on that.  

Also there is some good news!  I'm (we're) almost done with our TV pilot. PB&J Comedy.  So that's huge. It makes me laugh alot so that's good.  (:D !!!!)  I think it's really great!   

What else?  I'm working on this ECS website and I think it's finally really coming together.  I really think it is.  That just might get me into the Lantern for a couple of nights a week.  Which would be good.  I'd be happy with 2-3 nights a week.  That'd be dope.

Maybe one night a week on Allan's show.  That'd be cool too.  But we'll see.

So to summarize:

TV Pilot
Everycomedyshow.com (coming soon)
The Comic Strip (hopefully)

All by the end of January/February.  Not too shabby.  Not at all.  Just keep working.

I want that new time about my childhood soon.  I have to start working on it.  After this site is up.

Comedy and Continuous Learning

Not a very inspiring title right now.  But here's where we are.

As far as comedy goes I have to come up with some new jokes:

Set jokes:

Set up - 40 sec.  - 3 too long
Starter - 3 Joke
Disposable Income - 1 Joke
Detroit/Germany ...
  -- Detroit Joke -- 1 Joke/ Harmonica Meth Joke - 2 (Test this tonight.  Try to combine it)
  -- Germany Joke - 3
Sanford and Son - 2 Joke
L. Ron Hubbard - 3 Joke (We'll see - Only a One check joke)

In order to do this correctly I'll have to kick up the Disposable Income Joke and the Detroit Joke.  That'll get this set to completion.

Continuous Learning:

This is my real dilemma.

I have this thing I do where I take a long time to do things.  For instance, right now I have enough to actually work through some Equilend specific projects but I want to finish this Intro to ML and complete the task.  I also want to complete the Coursera course that allows me to learn about the math behind ML.   So this is my ideal path of learning.

• Finish Intro to ML
• Coursera: Math behind ML
• FB - PyTorch
• Deep Learning (Udacity)

However, to do this it would be the middle of next year (June) before I actually get to do something and create some work product.

Reasonably I could do this:

• Finish Intro to ML
• Put together Trade Probability Project ($$$)
• Put together Rejected Trades Project ($$$)
• Put together Tiered Trade Project ($$$)
• Coursera: Math behind ML 
• Deep Learning (Udacity) 

Looking at it in this way this seems to be the more sensible path and so this is what I'll do.

Ok.  Sounds good.  

So today's play is:

1. Rewrite Jokes
2. Work through Text Learning 

Next Moves

This post is exploratory.  Originally I named it comedy and technology.  But even I am not sure where it is going right now.

Here's my current situation.  

I now have 13 minutes of tight comedy.  I have two more minutes I think are tight and two minutes I have to develop.  That basically gives me 17 minutes of jokes.  Maybe 18.  That's a lot.  

To be honest I didn't realize I had that kind of time until the other day when I ran some old jokes I wrote and they worked like hell.  :D  Now I'm in a place where I've progressed faster than I expected.

So what do I do next?

First, I think it's time to re-audition at Broadway Comedy Club.  Doing that will give me two things:  

1.  Regular spots -- I need some regular spots where I can perfect this material in front of real audiences from all across America.

2.  Exposure -- It's time to get out there a bit and just put myself out there and let people see my work.

3.  Respect -- I'm always very big on this and this should result in more shows.

Second, mics.  Keep doing mics.  

Right now it is late March.  Let's just say April.  By the end of April I should have a solid 17-20 minutes of jokes.

That gives me 7 more months to develop new material.    If I develop a tight five minutes every 3 months (reasonable)

Today

Today I'm looking to work on the ML course and then go to work on comedy (Sidewalk Cafe and Halyard's.

That's all.

I don't know what else to say today.  That stuff.  Then I have to start writing my next set next.  And work through it.

Business Ideas

Ideas:

App:  Stuff Subscription -- You can buy stuff but it's on a subscription from a bunch of other people.
Social Media:  Embargo -- You can post stuff but it has to be approved by other people before it's posted.  It protects you from yourself.
Social Media: Gold Star -- an app that you can post what you did but it has to be confirmed by another person who is authorized to say you did that.

Ideas

Podcasts:

News
New Ideas: Podcast: The Creatives (! - 3/2/2019)

Podcast: Fight or a show: Fight

Show:  Bully
Thrillvia
Resolved
Now You Know

Today -- Feelings

Hi --

I feel some sadness today.  Often this comes along when I don't eat and today I didn't eat breakfast really nor did I eat dinner last night.  So this feeling fits. 

I'd like to be done with some projects but every time I think I'm done somebody comes along and they're like "Wait.  Can we change this?"  And the changes seem mecurial.  They don't seem and don't feel like they're well thought out.  It's annoying.

What are my plans for today.  Well, I'd like to work on some jokes.  I guess I'll focus on that.

I'm skating on very thin ice at my job.  It's forced me to make some tough decisions when it comes to comedy.

I've decided that I can no longer do 10:30 mics when I have to wake up at 6 am.  It simply doesn't work for me.  My bosses are pissed so I have to watch my ass very closely.

As far as telling jokes goes I've got to edit.  I really should do that today.  And I've also got to see how these jokes go this weekend.  Friday night and Saturday night.  That should be good enough.

This weekend I should also take some time and upload that zip file to Lambda.  I hate configuration files.  It's super annoying!!!!!  Configuring things really sucks.

I'm sad and hungry.

People Helping Each Other (PHEO Loans)

A crowdsourced loan site where it's payday loans but the terms are clear up front and the capital is taken from people who have small accounts and is then managed by a firm.

So the price might be 50% interest but the 30% is used to manage the loan and manage the portfolio of loans the the 20% is returned to the investor.

AllComicStrips -- a part of the TOC

IDEA!!!!

HUGE!!!!


AllComicSTRIPS:  This has a FB style profile but it has every comic strip in it!!!!

When your tired of the news you can read the FUNNIES!!!!!!!!

OMGESUS!!!!!!

THIS IS GONNA BE HUGE!!!!!!!!!

Ideas

Radium Photos: .blgif -- blockchain gif.  A picture that has a blockchain code in it that allows it to be erased or scrambled or charged for depending if the owner, the original node, chooses.

Stinder -- Tinder for stuff.  Allows you to swipe left and right on stuff and have a subscription where stuff just gets shipped to you.  Scrape sites and get data.

BailWatch -- Tinder for Justice.  Swipe left and right to spot sentencing and racial disparities.  Maybe this should be an ongoing data project (???)

Annoying Co-Worker

My co-worker is so annoying.

He talks to me like he's my manager and he wants to be.  But he's not that good.  He's a glorified accountant, ticking and tying numbers together.  No real sense of creativity.  No ability to create.  Only to steal credit and do 'business-y' things like layout and presentation.

The color of the car is nice.  But the guy who builds the engine should get the glory.  And the credit. And call the shots.  Anybody can pick a nice color.

Today's Plans

Long time no speak Whimtelligence.

I still like the name of this blog. 

Well I haven't written for a while but I'm still doing the same things.  I'm still doing comedy.  I'm still working with data.  And I'm still building side projects.  I guess that's a good thing.  I guess that's my jam.  Now onto what I want to do today.  I'll catch up with this blog more emotionally later.

Today:

1.  Work stuff -- I have to visualize some data.  And visualize some more data.  :-|  If I can get this done by 2 pm I'll be done with that.

2.  Comedy -- I want to listen to the stuff I've done and rewrite some bits.  That's a good thing.  I have some feedback from a couple of mics I want to ingest.

3.  everycomedyshow.com --
-- I want to scrape thestandnyc.com today.  That'll take some work though but it'll be really fun.  I don't know if I'll be able to get to it but I want to.  So we'll see.  But it's a possibility.  But I really need to write some new jokes.  But I do want to do something on this front today.