{"id":310,"date":"2012-03-16T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=310"},"modified":"2015-11-15T17:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:43:32","slug":"how-to-make-awesome-things-more-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/03\/16\/how-to-make-awesome-things-more-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Awesome Things More Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something I’ve discovered over the past year is that nothing is so cool that it can’t be made cooler.<\/p>\n

For instance: here’s the Great Wall.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty awesome, right?<\/p>\n

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But you know what would make it more awesome?\u00c2\u00a0 If China took the Great Wall, and then added a roller coaster.\u00c2\u00a0 And they did that<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the Bahamas.\u00c2\u00a0 You know what might be nice in the Bahamas?\u00c2\u00a0 How about a yacht?<\/p>\n

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But these people didn’t stop with a yacht.\u00c2\u00a0 For them, that was only the starting point.\u00c2\u00a0 They took an already serviceable yacht, and they added a water slide:<\/p>\n

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Back to China: here’s a chef making noodles.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty entertaining.<\/p>\n

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That doesn’t actually need to get better.\u00c2\u00a0 You get a show, and then you get noodles.\u00c2\u00a0 But they’ve made it just a tiny bit more entertaining by using a face-based restaurant safety rating system (the example below comes from a different restaurant than shown above):<\/p>\n

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Yes, no matter how cool things are, sometimes they surprise you by getting a little bit cooler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something I’ve discovered over the past year is that nothing is so cool that it can’t be made cooler. For instance: here’s the Great Wall.\u00c2\u00a0 Pretty awesome, right? But you know what would make it more awesome?\u00c2\u00a0 If China took the Great Wall, and then added a roller coaster.\u00c2\u00a0 And they did that: And here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[81,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}