I'm at work right now, it's almost lunch and I finished a project for my boss, Jay. He's not in his office so I have time to write this. For quite a while now, I've been trying to organize my jokes in written form so I know what all "complete" jokes I have, what jokes in progress I should be working on, and what "one liners" I can insert between existing jokes. I have binders, notebooks, and notecards out the wazoo to help in this progress. Sadly, however, I have many duplicates of many jokes spanning the different mediae.
At my job, I work primarily with databases, and one of my ever present problems is duplicates messing up my reports. Yesterday it dawned on me, I could design a joke database. So I did. And I spent most of the rest of the day entering my jokes, throwing out paper, and organizing stuff in a hopefully sane manner. Now jokes that are entered are searchable by title (in this blog I often refer jokes by their title, TETRIS, for example), catagory (ie Family, Seminary, Alcohol, Skiing) and secondary catagory (ie fat jokes, spanish). I also have a field to show which joke typically comes next and I have plans to enter a field for callbacks, should I ever write a joke WITH a call back...
Anyway, I was telling this to a friend over the phone and he said "you know that's almost a joke in itself". And he might be correct, although I am afraid to enter a database joke into the joke database for fear it would think I am making fun of it and crash my computer. Then I would be left without jokes, a joke database and I would only have a joke database joke. Anyway, I entered over 50 different records yesterday and am hoping I can find a way to piece them all together so I can approximate how much of a dork I really am. kidding, the goal right now is to see how much time I have and work on the "lesser" jokes, that is, the jokes that aren't necessarily as funny, but have potential. Anyway, now that I have the joke database, I figure other comics might want it. So it's available for 10 bucks, just email me. It required MS Access which is part of Microsoft Office, you can get that for free here.