I’ve been feeling under the weather since about January 9th. Came down with a nasty sinus infection with a side order of (chest aching, burns like a furnace) bronchitis. Went to the doc, took the medicine and felt better, but I’m still not “well”.
Consequently, I haven’t ridden the bike, which has left me feeling even worse.
This afternoon I got a letter in the mail. It was a note from my nephew (he’s 10) thanking me for the remote control helicopter I got him for Christmas. He wrote:
Dear Greg,
Thank you so much for the remote control helicopter. I have had a lot of fun with it. In fact, I got it stuck on the roof. Don’t worry, we got it down. I had a crash and had to make a few repairs, but it’s ok. You are a really cool guy.
That absolutely made my day! I am a really cool guy!
If this:
w
equals
double-u
then why doesn’t this:
www
equal
sextuple-u?
I think it should. It’s really much more fun to say:
Sextuple-u-dot-whatever-dot-com
Isn’t it?
More fun with grammar from our friends at the Associated Press:
Whose your daddy? Chimp Haven wonders
AP Tue Jan 16, 8:19 PM ET
SHREVEPORT, La. - It’s both a surprise and a mystery. At Caddo Parish’s Chimp Haven, where retired male chimpanzees all get vasectomies, a female chimp has turned up pregnant.
Whose? Whose?
Who’s checking the copy before they publish it, that’s what I want to know.
I wonder if the author of this piece had been previously ridiculed for gratuitously using apostrophes where they don’t belong. Maybe that’s it; apostrophe anxiety. Yeah, that’s probably it.
Postscript:
I see that they have now corrected their error (due, no doubt, to my tireless efforts).
Oviously.
Everything seems to be working fairly well. There are some formatting issues with IE, I’ve discovered. Shoulda tested first, but I never use it; I’m all Firefox, all the time! I’m sure some internal links got munged in the conversion process, so I’ll be hunting those down as I go.
If you see anything that seems broken, messed up, or just plain weird; please let me know (and be sure to tell me what browser and OS you’re using).
So, I found a script which will allow me to import the blog into WordPress. So over the next few days things may look a bit weird around here as I settle in.
Hopefully by week’s end, I will have everything switched over.
Once more, wish me luck!
So, I saw an article from the AP titled “Man rides stationary bike for 85 hours“. It starts off thusly:
AP Sun Jan 14, 2:05 AM ET
BURR RIDGE, Ill. - George Hood may have peddled his way into the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday night.
Goddamnit, no he didn’t! He traveled about, selling things? No! He didn’t peddle anything, you idiots.
I’ve come to expect this sort of thing from my local news, but really; I expect better from the Associated Press, the news organization. A bike (stationary or otherwise) has pedals. Therefore, he pedaled/pedalled (while both spellings may look odd, either is acceptable). I realize that this is a small thing, but this sort of lazy misuse of language drives me crazy, as I’ve mentioned before.
Ok, I feel better now.
This isn’t going to be about my ongoing game of “gasoline price roulette”. That’s a post for a different time.
I’m fond of saying that my bicycle runs on pasta, Little Debbie snack cakes, and bananas; which is true (to a point).
Well this blog runs on random things I find funny, stories I want to share, etc. Basically, the random output of my overactive imagination. And my desire to share this foolishness with a wider audience.
But there’s another, very important, somewhat less obvious ingredient: Comments! Give me your feedback! Call me names! Argue with me! Tell me I’m a genius!
Whatever, just share your 2 cents.
Otherwise I just feel like a lone voice of “whatever” vanishing into the vacuum of indifference.
Plus, I’m thinking that if the comment volume increases, I could institute some sort of Comment (or Commenter) of the month, with actual prizes!? How’s that for incentive?
So, sharpen your wit, shine up your sarcasm caps, and have at it!
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