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Me: Did you see that video?
Dave: Yeah! 5HA!
Me: 5HA? I’d give it a 7HA!

After my first post on this blog I’ve developed something I call “the HA scale.” It’s something I’ve been using while Instant Messaging for quite some time now.

The main premise is this: instead of typing hahahahahahaha you simply write 7HA. A lowly chuckly of hahaha becomes 3HA. If something is really, really funny, perhaps you’d throw out a 9HA or 10HA.

This works especially well on Twitter where space is limited. 10HA (4 characters)  instead of hahahahahahahahahaha (20 characters) – a savings of 80%! But not only on Twitter, it works perfect for any instant messaging and facebook chat, and especially while texting.

One key to keep in mind is the spectrum of the scale. One person’s 12HA is equal to another’s 8HA. And then there’s going to be the people that want to try and do something lame like 55HA. That’s just ridiculous. You’d never type out 55HAs no matter how funny. After some research, the scale I decided to go with ranges from 2HA - 14HA (based from the post mentioned above). Note that a 1HA is pointless to say.

The most common one I seem to use is 7HA or 8HA. Even though my arbitrary scale goes all the way up to 14HA, I’ve never used it or even 13HA. I’m saving those for the time when it really, truly undoubtably calls for it. I have my doubts whether or not it can actually happen while in front a computer. My guess is that it when it does happen, it won’t be because of anything that just got Tweeted. Even if it is that video of the monkey smelling his own finger.  hahaha… I mean… 7HA!

Every so often, I’ll get an urgent text message on my phone that says that there was a problem with my web server. But not to fear as “A restart was attempted automagically.”

Automagically? Sure, why not? Anything’s possible on the internet!

Rather than report the odd choice of the use of the word to my webhost, I just let it slide. After all, if I smile every time I get a message about a problem with my server, what’s wrong with that. Perhaps there’s some hidden genius in their choice of words.

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If you’ve tried to purchase a good domain name in the last year or two, you know just how bloody hard it has become. If in the course of your searching, you are surprised to find that a good name is available, you should probably buy it. Chances are, you’ll waste another two hours looking at hundreds more domain names and then go back to the one that made you say, “Real? Wow! That’s not too bad.”

But the thing that I funny - and by funny in this case I mean infuriatingly frustrating - is that there’s usually nothing good at the other end of what you want. For instance, on this blog, I wanted a good domain name related to humor. How do you shorten humor when using a keyboard? With a “ha” of course.

So, let’s start with ha.com. No surprise this is taken, right? Every two-letter combination was taken long before Internet Explorer perverted the net.

And of course, without a time machine going back to 1995, there’s no chance of haha.com. But at least this is a good solid humor site. I wasn’t surprised either to find hahaha.com, or hahahaha.com taken. But then it starts getting ridiculous!
hahahahahahahahahahahaha.com
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.com
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.com -(that’s 14 ha’s ) All taken!

Now, I’ve seen some funny things in my life. Many worthy of 8 or 9 ha’s, a small handful worthy of 10 ha’s, and possibly, just maybe, a few things that could command 11 or 12 ha’s. But I don’t think there’s anything that could be posted online that would command 14 ha’s. I’m not saying the world hasn’t seen it, but capturing a 14 ha moment? Yet to be done.

Besides, how do you share that address? Do you tell someone to type 14 ha’s in a row dot com? But even 14hasinarow.com is a shorter URL!

Perhaps there’s some brilliance behind that domain purchase? Maybe they’re betting on it being worthy someday. I doubt we’re close to a 14 ha moment online anytime soon. But I’ve also learned never to bet against the internet.

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