Some of you may have already seen this video before but I think it is super cool so I am posting it here. (Pat on the back goes to me for figuring out how to do that instead of telling you to just look it up yourself:) Anyway, if you enjoy random information as much as I do then this video is for you. Enjoy!
Also, I don't really know what the ending means or is trying to say so don't let it freak you out too much.
And since Christmas break is coming up and I actually have time to breath, be on the lookout for posts about hated hymns(and some not so hated ones too. I'm not completely evil), edible cups and the complete incomprehensibleness of people's ineptitude at recycling, dough based products and other biased views, books worth reading, and a link to my magnum opus. Props to you if you know what a magnum opus is and double props if you only know it because of Charlotte's Web. Paz afuera!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Forward This To Everyone You Know!!!
To: Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Friends, Siblings, Coworkers, College Roommates, Cousins, Second Cousins, Hairdresser, Tom, Dick, Harry, etc.
Subject: IMPORTANT!!!!! Forward attached
To Whom it may concern:
The email you are receiving was forwarded to you by someone who cares about you. They care so much in fact that they were willing to take .05 seconds out of their busy life to put a check mark next to your name in their contact list to send it to you. If you care about your loved ones at all you will do the same and forward it to everyone you know, three times if you really love them. Don't waste time deleting all the previous forwards so that they don't have to open 15 boxes to get to this email. This is urgent and if they really love you they won't mind opening those anyway. In fact they will probably think of you each time they open another box to get to the one you sent and think what a wonderful and caring friend you are.
If you don't do the same and forward it to every contact in your address book you are basically saying that you hate your mom, America, and puppies. And we all know that only the Anti-Christ (Aka Obama if you are the type of person to send this email) is that evil.
Each time this email is forwarded a penny goes to People Approving Rubbish and Crud (PARC). (That's Crap spelled backwards), an organization dedicated to the continuation of mushy, sappy, guilt-inducing, irritating email forwards and other important causes.
If this is not enough incentive for you to forward this email to everyone you know please consider the case of the woman who neglected to do so and later that night had her finger cut off by a thug as part of a gang initiation.
On the other hand you should also consider the case of the woman who forwarded this email to everyone she knew and not ten seconds later her doorbell rang and it was the prize patrol, coming to give her a check for 10 billion dollars!!!!!
So don't take any chances. Start forwarding!
-someone who loves you
Ok, just a few points of clarification. No I have not received any annoying forwarded emails lately, but my family has and has had a hard time deciding what to do about them. So I decided to create an email for them to forward and thought that I would post it here in case any of you would like to read (or forward) it. If you just read the above email and were confused because you like getting or sending forwarded messages may I calmly suggest that you check out another blog. Something along the lines of angelsamongus.blogspot.com, iluvjesus.blogspot.com or rainbowsandpuppies.blogspot.com. Just a thought.
For the rest of you I would like to clarify that I in no way think that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. In fact, much to the chagrin of my mother, I voted for him in this last election. (Calm down, I have known for a long time that I am going to hell, so I'm not worried, and furthermore, I live in Utah. McCain got all of our votes anyway. Now Breathe)
And finally, if I have otherwise offended you with this post I apologize profusely. Though I do question how we have managed to be friends so far if you find this post offensive. I mean, this is pretty benign in comparison to some of my other opinions (such as my hatred for certain LDS hymns *cough Kolob cough*) Like I said, I know I am going to be a long while in purgatory for some of these opinions. But at least I will be among friends:)
Subject: IMPORTANT!!!!! Forward attached
To Whom it may concern:
The email you are receiving was forwarded to you by someone who cares about you. They care so much in fact that they were willing to take .05 seconds out of their busy life to put a check mark next to your name in their contact list to send it to you. If you care about your loved ones at all you will do the same and forward it to everyone you know, three times if you really love them. Don't waste time deleting all the previous forwards so that they don't have to open 15 boxes to get to this email. This is urgent and if they really love you they won't mind opening those anyway. In fact they will probably think of you each time they open another box to get to the one you sent and think what a wonderful and caring friend you are.
If you don't do the same and forward it to every contact in your address book you are basically saying that you hate your mom, America, and puppies. And we all know that only the Anti-Christ (Aka Obama if you are the type of person to send this email) is that evil.
Each time this email is forwarded a penny goes to People Approving Rubbish and Crud (PARC). (That's Crap spelled backwards), an organization dedicated to the continuation of mushy, sappy, guilt-inducing, irritating email forwards and other important causes.
If this is not enough incentive for you to forward this email to everyone you know please consider the case of the woman who neglected to do so and later that night had her finger cut off by a thug as part of a gang initiation.
On the other hand you should also consider the case of the woman who forwarded this email to everyone she knew and not ten seconds later her doorbell rang and it was the prize patrol, coming to give her a check for 10 billion dollars!!!!!
So don't take any chances. Start forwarding!
-someone who loves you
Ok, just a few points of clarification. No I have not received any annoying forwarded emails lately, but my family has and has had a hard time deciding what to do about them. So I decided to create an email for them to forward and thought that I would post it here in case any of you would like to read (or forward) it. If you just read the above email and were confused because you like getting or sending forwarded messages may I calmly suggest that you check out another blog. Something along the lines of angelsamongus.blogspot.com, iluvjesus.blogspot.com or rainbowsandpuppies.blogspot.com. Just a thought.
For the rest of you I would like to clarify that I in no way think that Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. In fact, much to the chagrin of my mother, I voted for him in this last election. (Calm down, I have known for a long time that I am going to hell, so I'm not worried, and furthermore, I live in Utah. McCain got all of our votes anyway. Now Breathe)
And finally, if I have otherwise offended you with this post I apologize profusely. Though I do question how we have managed to be friends so far if you find this post offensive. I mean, this is pretty benign in comparison to some of my other opinions (such as my hatred for certain LDS hymns *cough Kolob cough*) Like I said, I know I am going to be a long while in purgatory for some of these opinions. But at least I will be among friends:)
Friday, October 24, 2008
Various Items of Business
I have no time for this but I feel the need to update my blog anyway. LAME! So we will keep this short and simple just to let you know I am alive and what I am working on.
- I tried to change the template to my blog. Bad idea. Not only do I not have time to go messing with this but I also neglected to save the original template so some of the stuff was lost. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- I am shamelessly soliciting favors. So if anyone finds a nice three column blog template that I can use please let me know. I was thinking red would be nice, since green is getting a bit boring. Oooh or maybe somebody can create a template that automatically changes colors everyday. That would be cool. (And if it printed coupons for free ice cream...)
- I am also looking for an internship in health education to take place this summer. I would like to go out of the country and not go broke in the process. I speak enough spanish to get by so latin American countries are in, as well as Africa. If you all could get on that, that would significantly reduce my stress levels. I need 400 hours, I already have a passport, and it has to be in community health education. Please report back to me by December. Thank you.
- I am running out of creativity. As evidenced by the boringness of this post I have nothing funny to say, or even interesting about my own life. It is all work and school and its true what they say about those things making you a dull person. Once again, sorry for the inconvenience. (Maybe they should put that on my grave when I keel over)
- Despite high levels of stress I am indeed coping ok and I don't think you will need to start engraving the headstone any time soon. Unless you can't find me an internship and then you had better start working on your own. Wait...I mean...uh, keep up the good work! Go team!
- I have not been asked any questions lately, at least not directly, but that may not be such a bad thing, seeing as how I really don't have time to answer them. But a while back one of my teachers used the term "rule of thumb" and then asked nobody in particular where that phrase came from. Well, for your learning and edification I found the answer. There are two really, but one is far more entertaining than the other. The legend is that it came from a judge in England way back when who regulated that a man could legally beat his wife with a stick as long as said stick was no larger than the circumference of his thumb. Hence, the rule of thumb.
- The second (and more likely, since no such law has ever been found in the records) story is that people have always used body parts to measure things, the thumb being one of them. Incidentally, this is why we Americans have such an odd way of measuring things. We never adopted the metric system because even though it is orderly it doesn't rely on comparisons of things we understand the way our system does. Sure there are 1,000 milliliters in a liter (man, I really hope thats right and doesn't expose me as an ignorant American), but how many thumbs are there? (Hopefully none as that would violate health codes. Gross)
- Here is a question for all of you. How do we forget things? I mean, I understand how, but when we have a memory and then we "lose" it, where does it go? It's not like it physically leaves our brains. Is it just like our bedrooms where certain items get misplaced and fall behind the bed and sit there for years collecting dust until we clean things out and find it again? Or is it more like socks in the dryer that don't get misplaced but are sucked into a vortex into another time and place? (We all know this is true and are just waiting for science to catch up. Too bad they are so hung up on the whole evolution thing instead. I am much more interested in finding the land of many socks, myself) Your thoughts will be appreciated. (Until I forget them...)
- Vote. Yes, that is important and it is coming up in two weeks. You can actually participate in early voting as well that has already begun in most places.
- DON'T VOTE FOR... ha, just kidding. I am not the media so I will assume you all have brains and can use them to determine which candidates are best. Just remember that "if you don't vote you're a moron."
- Somebody should offer a course in shorthand. That would be so unbelievably useful.
- Also, after you have finished all those tasks, if you could start a petition to rid the world of daylight savings time that would be great. I would be the first to sign it.
- Ok. Well, thats about all from me. Thanks for listening and I am looking forward to your contributions, especially finding that internship. Have a lovely day.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mmmm Tasty
So I have always known that college students don't really have the best diets. They don't talk about the "freshman 15" (or 20 as the case may be) for nothing. But there is one thing I was surprised to see a college student eating on his way to class one morning: Ramen noodles. I know what you're thinking. Um Linds, do you really go to college? Does the reason you don't have a degree yet have anything to do with your inability to see the obvious? (Well, actually, I do have a problem with seeing the obvious but that is beside the point.) No, Ramen noodles are not an unusual site on college campuses (I very nearly tried to pluralize that as campusii... there's another sign I've been here too long). No, I even enjoy the occasional Ramen noodles myself. I just like to COOK mine before eating them!!!! (At least in public). So I had to do a double take when I passed a kid who was eating a package of ramen noodles straight from the bag on his way to class. It was the funniest thing I have seen all week and I find humor in everything! Had I been thinking clearly I would have asked him if he needed a can opener for the cold spaghettios he probably had in his backpack. That's ok, I don't eat death in a can myself, especially not cold, (sorry if you actually like spaghettios) so I wouldn't have had a can opener anyway.
Anyway, it was the most random and surprising discovery I have made in awhile because I honestly had no idea people still ate raw ramen noodles after puberty, and had certainly never seen it done in public. To each his own I guess. Bon appetite!
Anyway, it was the most random and surprising discovery I have made in awhile because I honestly had no idea people still ate raw ramen noodles after puberty, and had certainly never seen it done in public. To each his own I guess. Bon appetite!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Super Quick Tag
Sooooo... I have been"tagged." And while I contemplated ignoring the tag because I really think it is going to be boring for everyone to read, I decided that if I had attempted to do that on the playground in elementary school I would have quickly run out of friends. And I would like to avoid that at this point.
However, I am really short on time and not very creative so while I am attempting to answer the 8 is great tag if I can't think of 8 things I am just going to do the mathematically impossible and say that there are 8 even if you cant see them. I'm sorry but I think if mathematicians can tell you that you have two apples and then multiply them by zero and take away your apples so you have none and say that that makes sense, then I can make up my own numbering system and pretend that it all adds up to 8. Also, brownie points to anyone who can explain the zero times anything is zero concept in plain english to me. Ive been working on it since third grade and it still makes NO sense!
All right, here we go
8 things I am passionate about:
1. My family
2. Learning anything and everything I can
3. Africa (actually, seeing the whole world in general)
4. The Gospel
5. Solving world problems (not that I have done that...)
6. Education (my own, but especially to people who have none)
7. Health/Medicine/The Human body
8. Understanding the world in which I live
8 Phrases I say a lot
1. LAME!!!
2. What the Lame?
3. Good grief/ good goodness
4. Soooooo
5. Surely
6. I know
And two that I would like to adopt but never do:
7. Love (calling people that, like "Thanks love")(But I have a fear that this would somehow come back and bite me in the butt and really embarass me. Like if I said it to a professor or something. Bad news)
8. Swear to Buddha (Same reason as above. I would likely offend the Dalai Lama or something)
8 Things I want to do before I die
Uh, how about just if I had all the time and money in the world instead?
1. Be a doctor
2. Hike the Subway in Zions National Park
3. Scuba dive
4. Learn more languages (really obscure ones too, like Shona, or Hmong)
5. Teach health in Africa
6. Understand Chemistry
7. Witness the death of Facebook
8. Be the host of Scientific American Frontiers (If anyone knows Alan Alda, please give him my number:)
8 Things I have learned from my past
1. Whatever experiences you have you can learn from
2. Eggs WILL explode in the microwave (please don't try this, I am already responsible for the deaths of too many microwaves and I promise it is true, and messy)
3. It rains on everybody in Seattle but there are still happy people there. In other words, we are ultimately responsible for our own happiness.
4. It is better to try to understand somebody than to just judge them (harder, but better)
5. Not deciding is not a decision (not a good one anyway)
6. You are the only one who holds yourself back from achieving whatever it is you want.
7. Even if people get away with a certain behavior all the time, you will get caught the one time you do it. Especially if you are a responsible person
8. God has a wicked sense of humor. Have you seen the platypus? But He also laughs with you, not at you.
8 Places I want to go
Well, we could just sum this up quickly and say the whole world, but...
1. Africa (Botswana especially)
2. The Seychelles
3. Christmas Island during the crab migration
4. Anywhere that I could see the Aurora Borealis
5. Spain
6. New York City
7. Afghanistan
8. India
8. Taiwan, Ecuador, The Canary Islands....
8 Things I currently need or want
1. Piano lessons
2. A laptop
3. Someone to do my homework for me
4. For daylight savings time to cease to exist
5. a mental floss T shirt
6. to be graduated
7. to be able to take my dog with me to school
8. for more people to believe in global warming (seriously, do we have to wait till our skin melts off our faces to believe it? Ok thats the subject for another post...)
Yeah, those are mostly wants.... but if you want to get me any of them my birthday is coming up.....
8 people I tag
Ok so apparently a lot more people read my blog than what I know about. So if you are one of them I tag you! Leave me a link in the comments and I will check out your blog:)
So there you have it. I now consider myself vaccinated against future tag outbreaks and hereby declare my immunity. I promise my next post will be more interesting (if you find rants about recycling interesting that is...)
Que thanks Bye!
However, I am really short on time and not very creative so while I am attempting to answer the 8 is great tag if I can't think of 8 things I am just going to do the mathematically impossible and say that there are 8 even if you cant see them. I'm sorry but I think if mathematicians can tell you that you have two apples and then multiply them by zero and take away your apples so you have none and say that that makes sense, then I can make up my own numbering system and pretend that it all adds up to 8. Also, brownie points to anyone who can explain the zero times anything is zero concept in plain english to me. Ive been working on it since third grade and it still makes NO sense!
All right, here we go
8 things I am passionate about:
1. My family
2. Learning anything and everything I can
3. Africa (actually, seeing the whole world in general)
4. The Gospel
5. Solving world problems (not that I have done that...)
6. Education (my own, but especially to people who have none)
7. Health/Medicine/The Human body
8. Understanding the world in which I live
8 Phrases I say a lot
1. LAME!!!
2. What the Lame?
3. Good grief/ good goodness
4. Soooooo
5. Surely
6. I know
And two that I would like to adopt but never do:
7. Love (calling people that, like "Thanks love")(But I have a fear that this would somehow come back and bite me in the butt and really embarass me. Like if I said it to a professor or something. Bad news)
8. Swear to Buddha (Same reason as above. I would likely offend the Dalai Lama or something)
8 Things I want to do before I die
Uh, how about just if I had all the time and money in the world instead?
1. Be a doctor
2. Hike the Subway in Zions National Park
3. Scuba dive
4. Learn more languages (really obscure ones too, like Shona, or Hmong)
5. Teach health in Africa
6. Understand Chemistry
7. Witness the death of Facebook
8. Be the host of Scientific American Frontiers (If anyone knows Alan Alda, please give him my number:)
8 Things I have learned from my past
1. Whatever experiences you have you can learn from
2. Eggs WILL explode in the microwave (please don't try this, I am already responsible for the deaths of too many microwaves and I promise it is true, and messy)
3. It rains on everybody in Seattle but there are still happy people there. In other words, we are ultimately responsible for our own happiness.
4. It is better to try to understand somebody than to just judge them (harder, but better)
5. Not deciding is not a decision (not a good one anyway)
6. You are the only one who holds yourself back from achieving whatever it is you want.
7. Even if people get away with a certain behavior all the time, you will get caught the one time you do it. Especially if you are a responsible person
8. God has a wicked sense of humor. Have you seen the platypus? But He also laughs with you, not at you.
8 Places I want to go
Well, we could just sum this up quickly and say the whole world, but...
1. Africa (Botswana especially)
2. The Seychelles
3. Christmas Island during the crab migration
4. Anywhere that I could see the Aurora Borealis
5. Spain
6. New York City
7. Afghanistan
8. India
8. Taiwan, Ecuador, The Canary Islands....
8 Things I currently need or want
1. Piano lessons
2. A laptop
3. Someone to do my homework for me
4. For daylight savings time to cease to exist
5. a mental floss T shirt
6. to be graduated
7. to be able to take my dog with me to school
8. for more people to believe in global warming (seriously, do we have to wait till our skin melts off our faces to believe it? Ok thats the subject for another post...)
Yeah, those are mostly wants.... but if you want to get me any of them my birthday is coming up.....
8 people I tag
Ok so apparently a lot more people read my blog than what I know about. So if you are one of them I tag you! Leave me a link in the comments and I will check out your blog:)
So there you have it. I now consider myself vaccinated against future tag outbreaks and hereby declare my immunity. I promise my next post will be more interesting (if you find rants about recycling interesting that is...)
Que thanks Bye!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Still Learning
Hey so I wanted to post a video from Youtube here, but to do so I have to sign up for an account and remember yet another password, and quite frankly I just don't have the energy or patience for it. But if you have enough energy to look up the following video on Youtube and about 8 minutes of patience I promise you won't be disappointed. I rarely watch this show because its on so late but when I do I laugh hysterically. The accent doesn't hurt either. Anyway, check out the following video: Craig Ferguson, "If you don't vote, you're a moron"
You can also just follow this link if you don't have quite that much patience: http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2008/9/12/if-you-dont-vote-youre-a-moron.html
Enjoy!
You can also just follow this link if you don't have quite that much patience: http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2008/9/12/if-you-dont-vote-youre-a-moron.html
Enjoy!
shrtned wrds
That's "shortened words" in the title, natch. (And if you didn't know, natch is short for naturally, of course!)
I got a question from Elise a while ago about a word that frequently popped up in her cross word puzzles. I had never heard it before and so was interested to learn about its meaning and background.
The word is "plaint" and I have a 'plaint of my own about it. Namely, it is not a word!!!! Its just a shortened word! Short for "complaint"! If only there were a customer service department for the English language I would be first in line to COMplain. (Notice I didn't say "plain" even though that is the shortened form of the word and it is now apparently acceptable to shorten words to your hearts content.)
RIDICULOUS!
Anyway, I was rather disappointed about this definition. Here i was all excited to see what new word I would learn and where it originated and all I get was this ghetto slang version of "complaint". Actually even ghetto slang is cooler than that. This was more like baby talk only not so cute because there wasn't a cute baby saying it. More like a crazy companion I had on the mission who spoke in baby talk every day despite the fact that she was 24!!!
Ok, I have calmed down. Happy thoughts. But all this did get me thinking. Sometimes I wish there were a customer service department for the English language. Though probably if there were it would be so busy that you would be put on hold for years at a time listening to a recording about the proper diagramming of sentences and the difference between your and you're (which really some of us could use a refresher course on...)
At any rate I know what my first order of business would be if there were a customer service department for English. And no it is not the shortening of words, though that would be on the list as well. My first order of business would be to ban the use of the word "impregnable."
Ugh, just writing it makes me cringe. I hate that word. I can't even explain why. Its just such a dumb, yucky, unnecessary word. Especially because it never refers to anything living (though truthfully I am glad of that as I would probably hate it even more if it did). People talk about a castle being impregnable. Well duh! Its made of rocks! I don't know what you were expecting here but basic biology could have probably enlightened you on this one had you let it penetrate your thick head, much like you are trying to penetrate the stupid castle. You know, the impenetrable one! Really, is the other word even necessary?
Another word I hate, but for different reasons, is pooch. Now quickly, what is the first thing that comes to mind when i use that word? It should be dog. That's what a pooch is. A small furry animal that brings joy or allergies into your life. Recently however some people have been using it to refer to the overdeveloped region around their abdomens. May I ask that you please refrain from doing so in my presence unless you happen to be holding a small dog near your middle? Because the name of the area you are referring to is called your gut. Beer belly, spare tire, muffin top, flab and love handles are also acceptable substitutions. Pooch is not.
I think this may have started because people were thinking it was a poofy area of the body but couldn't call it a poof because that word has a lighter connotation, like a cloud. And the gut, at least mine, is not poofy like a cloud:) They also couldn't use pouch, because kangaroos have those on their guts but not the rest of us (I hope!) So instead they decided to commandeer the word pooch and apply it to their flabby midsections. Not cool. The word is now ruined for me because even if somebody uses it to refer to a dog all I can think about is Uncle Joe's flabby midsection hanging over his pants. Gross.
So there is my rant for the day. Please feel free to share with me any words that you think really must go. Perhaps we can call customer service together and get them abolished. Right after we finish diagramming those sentences:)
I got a question from Elise a while ago about a word that frequently popped up in her cross word puzzles. I had never heard it before and so was interested to learn about its meaning and background.
The word is "plaint" and I have a 'plaint of my own about it. Namely, it is not a word!!!! Its just a shortened word! Short for "complaint"! If only there were a customer service department for the English language I would be first in line to COMplain. (Notice I didn't say "plain" even though that is the shortened form of the word and it is now apparently acceptable to shorten words to your hearts content.)
RIDICULOUS!
Anyway, I was rather disappointed about this definition. Here i was all excited to see what new word I would learn and where it originated and all I get was this ghetto slang version of "complaint". Actually even ghetto slang is cooler than that. This was more like baby talk only not so cute because there wasn't a cute baby saying it. More like a crazy companion I had on the mission who spoke in baby talk every day despite the fact that she was 24!!!
Ok, I have calmed down. Happy thoughts. But all this did get me thinking. Sometimes I wish there were a customer service department for the English language. Though probably if there were it would be so busy that you would be put on hold for years at a time listening to a recording about the proper diagramming of sentences and the difference between your and you're (which really some of us could use a refresher course on...)
At any rate I know what my first order of business would be if there were a customer service department for English. And no it is not the shortening of words, though that would be on the list as well. My first order of business would be to ban the use of the word "impregnable."
Ugh, just writing it makes me cringe. I hate that word. I can't even explain why. Its just such a dumb, yucky, unnecessary word. Especially because it never refers to anything living (though truthfully I am glad of that as I would probably hate it even more if it did). People talk about a castle being impregnable. Well duh! Its made of rocks! I don't know what you were expecting here but basic biology could have probably enlightened you on this one had you let it penetrate your thick head, much like you are trying to penetrate the stupid castle. You know, the impenetrable one! Really, is the other word even necessary?
Another word I hate, but for different reasons, is pooch. Now quickly, what is the first thing that comes to mind when i use that word? It should be dog. That's what a pooch is. A small furry animal that brings joy or allergies into your life. Recently however some people have been using it to refer to the overdeveloped region around their abdomens. May I ask that you please refrain from doing so in my presence unless you happen to be holding a small dog near your middle? Because the name of the area you are referring to is called your gut. Beer belly, spare tire, muffin top, flab and love handles are also acceptable substitutions. Pooch is not.
I think this may have started because people were thinking it was a poofy area of the body but couldn't call it a poof because that word has a lighter connotation, like a cloud. And the gut, at least mine, is not poofy like a cloud:) They also couldn't use pouch, because kangaroos have those on their guts but not the rest of us (I hope!) So instead they decided to commandeer the word pooch and apply it to their flabby midsections. Not cool. The word is now ruined for me because even if somebody uses it to refer to a dog all I can think about is Uncle Joe's flabby midsection hanging over his pants. Gross.
So there is my rant for the day. Please feel free to share with me any words that you think really must go. Perhaps we can call customer service together and get them abolished. Right after we finish diagramming those sentences:)
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