Screw you, MySpace.
I’m getting sick of MySpace serving me with divorce papers every time I try to post my blogs, so I’ve been giving some serious thought as to where I would like to restart blogging. I don’t mean “start from this point forward,” though; I would like to be able to export my MySpace blogs to said new site (Blogger, WordPress, wherever the hell) so that they’re all in the same place, ‘cause I’m anal like that.
However, this seems to be an issue. MySpace is also very clingy, as it does not want to give up its RSS feed to anybody. The closest I’ve been able to get to exporting was with WordPress, but that would involve having to export only 10 blogs at a time, so HOLY GOD NO, but that’s the best I’ve gotten so far. Maybe I’m not looking in the right place.
So if any of you happen to know of a blogging site that allows for mass importing of MySpace blogs, please let me know.
WOO!
Today’s song: Kelly Watch the Stars by AIR
Zoomzoomzoomazoomazoom
So because I’m scared of the solar flares*, I’ve decided that I shall take on the task, over the next few weeks/months/whatever, of printing my blog archive. All 1,243 pages of it. Why? Reasons:
1. Solar flares. You just never know.
2. Computer crashes. You just never know.
3. Having a hard copy of long documents is always a good idea.
4. It’s fun.
5. It’ll give me an excuse to buy a giant binder.
6. At the end of it all it’s going to weigh about 15 pounds, which will make a good weapon against anyone who breaks into my apartment.
Maybe I’ll plan it out so that I can have everything printed by May 1, 2011 (with statistical projections as to how many pages total I’ll have then, of course), which would leave me with a blog archive of the past 5 years of my life.
Scary? Yes.
Get the printer ready.
Today’s song: Circles by Soul Coughing
*We’re due for massive solar output in 2011-2012 that may possibly wipe out all satellite communication and god knows what else technology-wise for a half a decade or so. It’s just got me paranoid, shut up.
Golb
DUDE I just found out that I have rare fingerprints (I guess technically we all do, but that’s not what I mean).
I have one radial loop and nine arches (tented and plain). I always thought whorls were the rarest, but that’s probably because I don’t have any. I also envy the people with whorls, ‘cause they’re the coolest pattern, I think.
OKAY THAT’S ALL!
Today’s song: U Smile (Ambient) by Justin Bieber & Shamantis (yeah, you know it had to happen)
Dear Vancouver: 90 degrees? Really?
Edit: YES I KNOW I should be using Celsius, but screw that. I wanted that unambiguous “this weather blows” feeling from the title, not “what’s that in Fahrenheit again?”
I like the heat. I really do. But when I automatically get +50 humidity damage when I walk out the front door, things get bad pretty quickly. I’m glad I made up Friday’s not going to the rec center yesterday instead of today, ‘cause I’m pretty sure I would have died from some sort of heat-related incident there this afternoon (I don’t think they know what fans are in Canada).
I also had the dumb idea of making bread today (dumb because of the fact that my apartment was nearly 87 degrees BEFORE I preheated the oven to 400). I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks totally good. Yayzorz.
On a totally unrelated note, it’s Clock Day today! So go to newgrounds.com and check out all the good/bad/funny/serious stuff the clocks have made for today.
Yay!
Today’s song: Dancing On My Own by Robyn
Waiter! There’s a dead and alive cat in my box!
HOLY CRAP, so I was screwing around on StumbleUpon this afternoon and I came across some random page of NASA’s. Multiple clicks later and I came to this.
I had totally forgotten that we’d attempted to do this in fifth grade. I say “attempted” because at 4 days prior to the competition we realized that we were short a motor (we foolish children and our lack of inventory-taking skills!) and thus were forced to withdraw. No, I don’t know how exactly we had the majority of our rover finished before we realized “hey, we kinda need a third motor,” but we did. Probably because one of our members had to quit because he failed like 5 reading quizzes in a row and he was the one in charge of our Lego kit. We would have won, too, ‘cause my transmission was killer and Daniel built an exceptionally awesome rock scooper (that’s a highly technical NASA term).
So yeah. Nostalgia.
I also found a random flash drive this afternoon that had this previously un-blogged-about album cover contained on it:
Also, I need to get super hyper again in time for my calc final. I don’t remember a single damn thing I wrote on my test on Monday, but I did pretty well.
So there.
Today’s song: Hemvägen (Live Nyhetsmorgon 2007) by Detektivbyrån
1,500
Blog #1,500, yay! That’s about 1,450 more than I thought I’d ever do back when all this insanity started. And because I did a Wordle of my actual blog for the 4 year anniversary, I felt it only fitting to do one for the titles:
I like how “damn” and “MySpace” are in such close conjunction there.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), I don’t have much to say today. So I bring you this. The fact that there are four more articles concerning this topic listed under “PREVIOUSLY” made me laugh. All the comments are pretty great, too.
Claudia’s blogs: bringing you the strange and obscure parts of the internet since 2006.
I also calculated that I’ll hit 5,000 (!!) blogs on January 8, 2020, assuming I’m still alive then. Distant and pointless goals are what I live off of (hell, that’s why I’m in grad school, after all), so don’t think I won’t go for it.
Today’s song: On My Mind by Damone
Please fasten your seatbelts and secure your belongings as we descend into YEAR NUMBER FIVE
Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the fifth year of Claudia’s blogs. I’ve been looking forward to this day since about July because having nearly 1,500 blogs allows for copious amounts of stats insanity, most of which I’m not going to post here (messing around with regression? DON’T MIND IF I DO).
Anyway.
PART I. NO ONE CAN RESIST THE EXCITEMENT OF TREND ANALYSES!
As you know, I dig graphs. Hence, here are a few graphs. The light red straight line on each one indicates the mean value. Doing this was massively enjoyable.
Ordered from lowest to highest. This one surprised me. I was expecting to see some sort of trend—like maybe lower word counts in general for the summer months or something. But no. Haha, it’s interesting that the first months of living in the house with the boys have such low word counts. I guess I was too busy playing Rock Band and killing mice.
Average word count overall: 7,348
I think the sheer number of surveys I do dragged this down for most months, but who knows.
Ordered:
Average words per sentence overall: 9.52
GFI is the Gunning Fox Index, which tells you the number of years of formal education a person requires in order to be able to understand the text in one read. For comparison’s sake: the GFI of one of my phil papers was 16.67 (average words per sentence was about 22), so obviously I put “school writing” and “blog writing” in two very different categories. As it should be.
Ordered:
Average GFI overall: 7.26
PART II. WORDLE!
PART III. THE TITLES, THE TITLES!
You know I couldn’t resist.
The “Waiter!” ones
- Waiter! There’s a hippo in my Taco Grande!
- Waiter! They’re a Pythagorean Theorem in my Pi!
- Waiter! There’s a Creationist in my Primordial Soup!
- Waiter! There’s a quadriplegic in my Jazzercise class!
- Waiter! There’s an Intergalactic Star Cruiser in my Bran Muffin!
- Waiter! There’s a Hard Rock in my Cafe!
- Waiter! There’s a Leper in my Ant Colony!
- Waiter! There’s some fuzzy logic in my dryer’s lint collector!
- Waiter! Why the hell do you always bring me crappy puns?
- Waiter! There’s a tree falling in my forest and I can’t tell if it’s making a sound!
- Waiter! There’s some Plato in my Play-Doh!
- Waiter! There’s an abominable snowman in my snow cone!
- Waiter! There’s a Pisces in my Tropic of Capricorn!
- Waiter! There’s a Matt Farnsworth in my Blog!
- Waiter! There’re four and twenty blackbirds in my pie chart! (Confused? Understandable.)
- Waiter! There’s kurtosis in my bimodal-distributed data!
- Waiter! …Waiter? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGLHALSKFDJSL!!!
- Waiter! There’s a circular argument in my logic!
- Waiter! There’s an e in my pi (thus meaning he brought me pie! Sweet!)
- Waiter! There’s a Super Nova in my ANOVA! How in the world…?
- Waiter! There’s a god in my universe!
- Waiter! I JUST WANT SOUP, DAMMIT!
- Waiter! There’s an Ego in my Eggo!
- Waiter! There’s a hippocampus in my zoo!
- Waiter! There’s heteroscedasticity in my samples!
- Waiter! There’s Godot in my post-modern humorous play!
- Waiter! There’s an…aw, screw it, can I just get some pasta?
“If a tree falls in a forest…” and other sayings ones
- If a tree falls in the forest, can we still have sex later?
- If a tree doesn’t fall in the forest and no one is around, does the universe suddenly implode?
- If no one falls in the forest and a tree is around to see it, does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPEN?
- If a tree farts in the forest, do all the other trees fall over?
- If a sound falls in a tree and no one is around, does it make a forest?
- If Newton falls in the forest and Leibniz is watching, does he throw a party?
- What is the sound of one tree falling?
- If an apple tree falls in the forest, does it still keep the doctor away?
- If you lead a horse to water and nobody’s around to see it, does it take a drink?
- What is the sound of one horse being led to water?
- You can lead a tree to a forest, but you can’t make it fall.
Godot jokes
- Why doesn’t somebody buy Godot a watch?
- Silly Godot…Watches are for PUNCTUALITY
- If Godot falls in the forest and no one is around…
- If Godot falls in the forest and no one is around, do we have to wait even longer?
- You can lead Godot and Vladimir and Estragon, but you can’t make him show up
- Godot jokes will continue until he arrives.
- Godot Divides by Zero
- *insert Godot joke here*
“I shouldn’t title blogs when I’m hyper” ones (aka “The Caps Lock Series”)
- CLAUDIA’S INSANELY HYPER SURVEY OF INSANE HYPERNESS
- I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANSISCO OH SHI—*collapses*
- How long can these subject headings be, anyway? I mean can you just ramble on and oh here it is
- Oh-ho-ho! Somebody left the water running! I guess all we can do now is count the sunflowers
- It’s Tuesday and it’s late and I don’t have a life or plans or a soul or a taco or five tacos
- HELLO GOOD SIR JUST STOPPING IN TO TELL YOU HOW AWESOME LEIBNIZ IS PIP PIP TALLY HO
- Sometimes I have the answers. Other times I’m just a toaster.
- BLOG: APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
- IT’S NOT THAT HARD, GET IT RIGHT *frustrationfrustrationfrustration*
- I AM IRON MAN…DERRNERRNERRNERRNERRNERRNERR, IRON PANTS
- “DURRRR WHAT’S A STAPLE”
- Blah blah ah-ah-ahhh, blog-ah, blog-ah-ah! MySpace, ooh la-la! Want your bad blog post!
- If Captain Planet isn’t your hero, you’re a COMMIE
- CRAIGSLIST YOU ARE MY ONLY COMPANION MAKE HOT SWEET LOVE TO ME YOUR PIC GETS MINE – 22 F
10 more that don’t fit into any other category
- If you want to eat an apple pie, you must first consume the universe
- Jimmy crack corn one more time and I’m referring him to a specialist
- Yo blog title, I’mma let you finish, but this entry holds one of the best blogs of all time
- This just in: geophagists across the globe are biting the dust!
- I used to teach a failing fly-tying class until I realized my efforts were all for knot.
- I used to work at a bridal shop specializing in headdresses. My work there was to know a veil.
- Hello, I’m Erik Erikson and I have a silly name
- Indiana Jones and the 25 Credits of Doom
- Do philosophy departments have Causal Fridays?
- I think it was Socrates who said, “Hello! My name is Socrates!”
No, I don’t have a life, thank you for asking.
Blog on why Facebook can suck it will come tomorrow.
Hooray for 4 years of blogging!
Today’s song: My Skin by Natalie Merchant
OH GOD THE BLOGS ARE CAUGHT UP
HOLY FREAKING CRAP, did you ever think this would happen?
Finally, after about a year and a half, my blogs are once again caught up on MySpace. I would have posted these yesterday, but Photobucket was being a bitch, and I wanted the ones with pictures to, you know, actually have pictures.
Also and somewhat unsurprisingly, posting all these blogs = HUGE EMOTIONAL RELEASE. I forgot how good it was to actually post the inane drivel I come up with.
Anyway.
As said in previous blogs this week, these will start getting interesting again probably in the middle of next week. Regression midterm + Measurement homework + Infancy abstract grading + Methods midterm grading + more research crap all has to be finished by next Tuesday. Yay.
Also, I’m sure I’ll have some good stuff to post when Matt gets up here.
YAY! BLOG UPDATE CELEBRATION COMMENCE!
Today’s song: Fireflies (Playajazzy Remix) by Owl City, covered by Ahmir (yes, I have five versions of this song now)
Oh hey, look what’s working again
Well look who’s back.
While MySpace has made it appear as such, I have NOT stopped hemorrhaging blogs. They’ve simply been bleeding into one obscenely long Word document (389 pages, give or take the few pages of stupid titles I’ve been saving up) since April 2008.
665 days—or 1 year, 9 months, and 25 days—worth of blogs.
Yeah.
Visual proof, zoomed out to 10% (and also to test if the site I’m now using for pictures actually allows images to show up on my blog):
Edit: just took a chunk of it ‘cause Vaio II’s screen is too big and manly and wide to display everything without stretching my blog page. Aw, yeah.
So.
My plan (not that anyone cares) is to get about a month of these up per day (starting tomorrow), but who knows how that will go. I may not even be able to get another one up for another 665 days (though that was partially my own fault). I suggest you either unsubscribe and re-subscribe later once the deluge has passed (if you so desire to re-subscribe, of course), or attempt to NOT get annoyed by 28+ “Claudia has posted a new blog!” messages per day for about 22 days.
Or get annoyed by them anyway, since you probably don’t check this everyday in anticipation of my blogs reappearing.
Also, time for MASSIVE MYSPACE PROFILE AND PICTURE REVISION (will occur later today/tonight/tomorrow). Hahaha, my old mood and header title thingy are still accurate, though.
Anyway.
Edit: Damn, I almost forgot my formatting style. It’s certainly been awhile.
Today’s song: Lakme: Flower Duet by Leo Delibes [you’ll figure out what this is all about in ~20 days]
Blog the OH GOD THREE YEARS
HOLY FREAKING CRAP, I’ve been blogging for 3 years straight now. Craziness.
I don’t really have anything amazing to post, mainly because I’m ridiculously busy at the moment (you’d think I’d chill now that I’ve already graduated, but noooooooooo…).
Anyway. Just thought the anniversary should be acknowledged.
Blog the 1000th
(EDIT: because I suck at counting, this is actually NOT the 1,000th blog. It’s the 993rd. I’m awesome. Disregard all the following content)
HOLY FREAKING CRAP 1,000 BLOGS!! That’s 2.74 years worth.
Haha, never thought it would happen, huh? Neither did I. I even said so on my first entry. But here we are, aren’t we?
I’m at a loss for words.
NO I’M NOT!
Here’s what 1,000 blogs has brought us through:
– High school graduation
– College graduation
– Me learning Flash
– A lot of stupid cartoons
– Heartache
– Song parody
– The 25 credit adventure
– Hatred of the U of I
– Band geekery
– MSN conversations
– Finals freakouts
– A few jobs
– A lot of books
– A LOT of attempts at being funny
– New friendships
– Enlightenment
– The greatest semester of my life
– The worst semester of my life
– Papers. Tons and tons of papers.
– Puns. Tons and tons of puns.
– Intellectual exploration
– Internet exploration
– About eight different majors
– Probably a lot of other things, too
More late-night Hawaii rambling
It’s so weird to think that we’re all under the same moon tonight, isn’t it?
I mean, my mom, dad, Sean, and a bunch of other people I know are way up in Moscow, Idaho. Aaron is in Boise.
And we’re down here in Hawaii.
But we’re all under the same moon, on the same planet, in the same universe.
It just makes things seem weird sometimes.
Blog #900: The 900th Blog
Hi people!
Guess what?
Today is my 900th blog!
ONLY 100 MORE UNTIL THE BIG 1,000!
WOOOOOOOOOO!
(Edit: haha, I’m off by six blogs. This is actually #894)
OMG 2 YEARS
Holy crap, people, I’ve been blogging for two years straight now!
Back on May 1st, 2006, I started blogging. Who knew it would turn into this? As per usual, I shall present you with my top titles, broken down into a couple of sections. I’d give you the best blogs, but that hasn’t changed much (yesterday’s was pretty good, though). Plus, it’s dead week and I want to shoot myself, so this is what you get.
Onward!
The “I pick some random dude(s) and ascribe to them some sort of personality quality in my blog title” titles
- Orson Welles, put your pants back on!
- Parmenides, is it really necessary to philosophize sans pants?
- No, Mark Twain, I don’t want to see your “Huckleberry Finn,” now put your pants back on!
- Mr. Gorbachev, first put your pants back on, then we’ll talk about the wall, okay?
- Ronal Reagan was a mean child, always destroying the walls of his playmates’ Lego creations
- John Adams, I do not feel you have the necessary capabilities to bring sexy back
- Machiavelli! No more bran muffins for you, young man!
- Spinoza! Descartes! Am I going to have to separate you two?
- Henry David Thoreau, get out of my pool!
- Blog 660: Leibniz, Leibniz, Leibniz! (Get out of my pool!)
Stupid puns, jokes, or plays on words
- This just in: geophagists across the globe are biting the dust!
This is one of Claudia’s blog titles if and only if it contains a bad joke about biconditionals
If Genghis Khan, You Can, Too! (Too Bad Immanuel Kant)
That’s the one good thing about standard deviates—they’re never mean
I used to teach a failing fly-tying class until I realized my efforts were all for knot
I used to work at a bridal shop specializing in headdresses. My work there was to know a veil
Hyperbole is the best thing EVER!!
I tried flying by the seat of my pants, but I couldn’t get them certified by the FAA
Silly Rabbit…Trix are for Magicians
A Dutch man once touched an electrically-charged French Petri dish. It was a culture shock.
The “If a tree falls in the forest…” series (I thought I had more of these)
- If a tree falls in the forest, can we still have sex later?
If a tree farts in the forest, do all the other trees fall over?
If a tree doesn’t fall in the forest and somebody is around, does the universe suddenly implode?
If a summer falls in the winter, does it spring back?
If a sound falls in a tree and no one is around, does it make a forest?
The “Waiter! There’s a…” series
- Waiter! There’s a Pythagorean Theorem in my Pi!
Waiter! There’s a Hippo in my Taco Grande!
Waiter! There’s a Freudian in my Id!
Waiter! There’s a Quadriplegic in my Jazzercise Class!
Waiter! There’s Voltaire in my English Book! (what’re the odds of that?!)
Waiter! There’s a Creationist in my Primordial Soup!
Waiter! There’s some Plato in my Play-Doh!
Waiter! There’s a Super Nova in my ANOVA! How in the world…?
Waiter! There’s an Intergalactic Star Cruiser in my Bran Muffin!
Waiter! There’s a Pisces in my Tropic of Capricorn!
Waiter! Why in the hell do you always bring me crappy puns?
Waiter! There’s a Matt Farnsworth in my Blog!
Waiter! There’s an e in my pi (thus meaning he brought me pie! Sweet!)
Waiter! There’s an Ethiopia on Djibouti!
Waiter! There’s kurtosis in my bimodal-distributed data!
Waiter! …Waiter? AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHDLFHGSLHDSL!!!
Waiter! There’s four and twenty blackbirds in my pie chart! (Confused? Understandable.)
Waiter! There’s a tree falling in my forest and I can’t tell if it’s making a sound!
Waiter! There’s some fuzzy logic in my dryer’s lint collector!
Waiter! There’s an…aw, screw it, can I just get some pasta?
Ones that I just like
- Jimmy crack corn one more time and I’m referring him to a specialist
Choco Leibniz: The Best of All Possible Cookies
The day that Camus backed into a sumac was the day the palindrome was born!
I think it was Socrates who said, “Hello! My name is Socrates!”
At first I was just friendly to the environment. But now we’re dating!
Sometimes I have the answers. Other times I’m just a toaster.
Where do the quadriplegics stand?
Get confident, stupid!
E = MC Hammer
Drugs: the anti…oh wait.
Hope to entertain you people for another year or two. Or forty.
Blog 700: Dear Lord, it’s Blog 700
Holy crap, I’ve blogged 700 times. That means only one thing (and when I say “one thing” I mean “list of things that it means”)…
There’s only 300 blogs left until I hit 1,000.
I have way too much to say.
I think I have way too much to say but really don’t, so a good ¾ of my blogs are total crap.
There are too many surveys out there.
I should never, ever set such goals as “I’m going to blog every day.”
I have no life.
Neither do any of you, cause not a single one of you has ever deterred me from blogging.
In fact, you people seem to like this crap.
Therefore, I shall continue on, at least to 1,000!
Ad astra!
Silly Rabbit…Trix are for Magicians
Haha, ohhhhhhh…my titles kill me.
Now to the blog:
YES! My statistics test has been moved back to next Friday. I’m frightened. I’ve never taken a 400-level statistics class.
On another note…
I feel the need to poke fun at emos. Thus, I dub next week “Claudia Blogs Like an Emo Week”, starting on Monday. Why? Because I feel a blog-esque lampoon of the stereotypical emo blog is needed. And I think it would be hilarious if I did it, because…well, I don’t know. But it will be.
Onward to year 20!
Claudia is in Violation of MySpace Code 25-3760: Blogging Under the Influence of Jolly Ranchers
I started doing surveys in my blogs on November 29, 2006. Since then, I have done many, many more, including the 500- and 1000-question ones. Here are some strange answers I’ve had in past times. And yes, I’ve saved all these surveys and the answers to them. I’m a sad, sad individual, aren’t I?
These were during my humping obsession period. Don’t even ask (but if you must know, this was around October 2006).
What did you do yesterday: Humped some stuff…went to classes…the usual.
06. have you ever fallen for your best friend: Fallen for? No. Fallen on with the goal to hump? Yes.
01. love or money: Humping for pocket change (a nice even mix of the two!)
03. one night stand or relationship? What is humping categorized as? What if it’s repeated humping of one person?
Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. A Pulitzer Prize
2. A taco
Haha, poor, pathetic me…
59.Have a significant other?
No
60.What is their name?
*cries*
61.How old are they?
*rolls on floor, crying*
62.How long have you been going out?
*starts the self-pity rocking motion*
110.Played with Barbies?
They have had many adventures…20,000 Leagues Through the Sewage Line!
259.If there was to be a movie about you, who do you think should play you (in personality, looks or both)?
William Shatner
373.Know any foreign languages?
Well, I know the international language of sex and…ah, screw it
378.Are you a bum?
I HAVE a bum…
15. Where is your mailbox?
Um…out on the lawn in the front yard? Why, did you kidnap my beloved Boxy?! NOOOOOOO…
31. Would you be a pirate?
Do you have any idea how many “booty” jokes I would be making? I would be ordered to walk the plank within my first half hour.
My rant against sports whilst filling out a “favorite [insert sport here]” part of the 500 question survey.
128. Football team
Blah, football sucks.
129. Soccer team
Soccer too.
130. Tennis player
All sports, really.
131. Hockey team
Except Scrabble.
132. Basketball team
Cause that’s totally a sport.
133. Baseball team
But I digress…
134. Swimmer
We must return to answering questions.
159. Favorite president
Oh come on, if you don’t know my favorite president, you don’t know MILLARD FILLMORE!
271. Cup size or condom size
Aw, can’t I have both?
I ponder my true love
283. Have you already found your ideal mate?
Who knows? Perhaps my ideal mate exists on this earth in cantaloupe form. Holy crap, that would rock.
284. Or as close as someone can get?
Huh? Oh sorry, I’m still fantasizing about that cantaloupe…
312. Pop music?
“BaCkStReEt BoYz 4ever LOLZ!!!!111”
324. George W. Bush?
Society’s herpes! Burn it off! Burn it off!
545. Eat an entire package of Oreos in a half an hour?
Why does every survey ask this question? Seriously, what’s with them having to be Oreos? There are other cookies in the world, you know! I’m suing on behalf of Chips Ahoy for discrimination.
571. Surgeon?
Neurosurgeon, bitch!
678. Do you secretly fantasize about George W. Bush?
Oh god! *vomits*
5. What class would you marry if you had to marry a class you’re taking right now?
TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS! TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS!
1. Are you in a relationship?: With my Tests and Measurements class. Yes, we’re a couple now. Yes, I’m seeking therapy for this.
32. If you were a spider where would you crawl away and live?
My spidey-hole, where my Spidey-sense would tingle constantly and oh my goodness that sounds really dirty.
Great stuff, huh? HUH?! Join me in my ego-boosting campaign!
In other news, a Fillmore Fact for you: he initiated the White House Library. Now how awesome is that?!
The Year In Review: Blog Style
Just what the title says. Read on, blog lovers, read on!
January: This basically sums up January in the sense that it sums up the insane posting of poetry, insults, stories, and other totally random crap on others’ Facebook walls by me during the whole month. January was fun, as I recall.
February: This isn’t much of a blog, but it signifies the in-depth studying of the French Enlightenment that was going on at the beginning of the year. I miss that. Extremely.
March: The U of I sucks and I explain why.
April: Ag Sci. The love begins.
May: Psycho de Mayo. This was good.
June: Review of working. This list makes me laugh.
July: This blog describes my dream about Sartre. I’m putting this one here because I had a lot of weird dreams in July.
August: The private-made-somewhat public blog. Yeah. The first half of August wasn’t too great.
September: What amuses me about this blog is the comment I made after it: “I totally should have used ‘wake me up when September ends’ as my title, but I’m actually more amused at my ability to work both the phrases ‘pity party’ and ‘Cheez-Its’ into the same title.”
October: The month that supported preexisting accusations that the University of Idaho is about as competent a university as their football team is prepared for a bowl game.
November: Highlight of the month. Oh my.
December: The bout of hyperness at the beginning of the month is worth noting in this blog.
BONUS!!
Year’s Funniest Blog: The Second Continental Chatroom – February 7, 2007
Year’s Bitchiest Blog: Claudia gets pissy (watch out!) – January 26, 2007
Year’s Most Pointless Blog: I’m tired of this monotonous charade! –April 8, 2007
Haha, it was a good year in terms of blogs.
Good lord, I blog a lot
Well my friends, today is blog number 600.
And in honor of this, both because I’ve blogged 600 times and because I’m bored out of my mind, I’ve compiled a bunch of statistics for you. Thank Microsoft Word and the Spell-check feature.
Total words: 160,978
Total sentences: 16,107
Words per sentence: 9
Passive sentences: 2% (or about 322 sentences)
Flesch reading ease: 79.1 (fairly easy)
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 4.4
And there you go. I hope this brightens the shortest day of the year!
Review of the MySpace Moods
Day 1 of break: Claudia’s bored enough to review every single mood on MySpace. And yes, I do cry myself to sleep as I realize the painful truth of my lack of a life, thank you for asking.
Note: please be kind, they’re short. What do you want, there are 200+ of them!
Review of the MySpace Moods: An Unofficial Guide To Tom’s View of the Range of Human Emotion.
Accomplished
YAY! I love this mood.
Adored
Is it adoration, or is it…stalking? Find out tomorrow, on The Bachelor: Previous Offender Island!
Adventurous
Let’s go climb Everest!
Aggravated
You’re starting to tick me off…
Amorous
How I love being amorous. It makes me smile. Especially when there’s something/someone about which to be amorous.
Amused
I use this way too much. What can I say? The irony of life gets me.
Angry
“I’m angry. That’s what I am. Angry. I’m angry with f***ing life after playing this!” Yeah. That’s a quote from the Yogi Bear thing.
Angsty
Because emos don’t get enough representation here on MySpace.
Animated
Animated, or animator? Ha, I’m weird.
Annoyed
Blogging while annoyed is fun and, when re-read later, hilarious. I strongly advise blogging while annoyed.
Anxious
Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod…
Apathetic
Apathy? Who cares?
Argumentative
Yeah, I’m not wearing pants. Why, you wanna make something of it? Huh? Do ya, punk? Huh? Bring it!
Aroused
Ooh! This is new. You know what mood they need? “Giggity-Giggity.”
Artistic
I’m Salvador Dali!
Ashamed
Ah, shame. Where would we be without thee?
No seriously. It’s a big philosophical question.
Awake
I’VE HAD CAFFIENE, I’M ARMED, AND I’M HYPER. STAY AWAY FROM ME.
Betrayed
You’ve betrayed me, young disciple! How could you? I…I…I trusted you! Oh, cruel world!
Bitchy
People in this mood always amuse me. Especially when they crap out a blog or two. They’re just so funny!
Blah
Microsoft Word has absolutely no synonyms for this one. Odd.
Blank
(this space intentionally left blank)
Blessed
Here’s what I don’t get. God said, “be fruitful and multiply.” So why do we have everything from division to derivatives to sin and cosine? As one can plainly see, god did not destine us to have higher mathematics! HA!
Blissful
Bliss is good. But is it only attained through ignorance? I ask you.
Blustery
If you don’t watch out, they’ll name a hurricane after me!
Bored
Do blogs come forth more often from any other mood?
Bouncy
Tigger! I didn’t know you were on MySpace!
Breezy
What’s with the weather-like moods? I didn’t know one could feel moods resembling the winds.
Bullied
For those MySpacers still in junior high.
Bummed
Aw, man…
Busy
“I’m busy, and yet I’m blogging.” How many of my nearly 600 blogs have been written in this situation?
Calm
When is blogging when one is calm any fun?
Cantankerous
I love this word. The only synonym better is “tetchy.” They should put tetchy on here sometime.
Catalyzed
Hurryuphurryuphurryuphurryuphurryuphurryup…
Cheerful
Hooray! Cheerful is always good. Except when you’re the one in a really bad mood and are forced to hang out with a bunch of overly cheerful people. Then it sucks.
Chill
“Hey.”
“Hey.”
“What are you doing?”
“Oh, nothing, just chillin’, watchin’ the game, havin’ a Bud.
“True, true.”
“WASSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUP?!”
“WASSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP?!”
Haha, sorry.
Chipper
Well hi-ho, gentlemen, ’tis a fine day for a blog. I do say I’m feeling rather chipper today, and yourselves?
Cold
Ah, my old friend Cold. What an amazing amount of time I’ve spent with you.
Complacent
Complacency scares me. I feel that once I’ve become complacent, I won’t want to do anything more.
Confident
Blogging when one is confident. This can either be a disaster, hilarious, or very informative. Totally circumstantial.
Confused
The eternal question: should one blog when confused? My answer: only to clear up or try to sort through their confusion. Prime example: Maggie’s blog about the pizza porn. Haha, that was your best blog ever, Maggie.
Contemplative
Ah, who doesn’t like to be contemplative? I sure as heck love it. I use this mood a lot.
Content
I don’t like being content. I feel contentment leads to laziness.
Cooky/Wacky
Hahahahaaaaa…RAZORS!
Cranky
No no, I’m fine. I’m having a great day. You just sit there and DON’T TOUCH ME!
Crappy
Feeling crappy sucks. My only comment.
Crazy
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE DENTIST HAS MY ARM CHAIR!
Creative
Ah, creativity. I love feeling creative. In fact, this is when most of my Flashes are created.
You probably don’t want me in a creative mood, do you?
Crunk
What the hell is crunk? I thought that was a dance style. Ah, young people and their new terms.
Crushed
Ah, now I have a mood for when those semis run me over on the highway!
Cultured
I knew I’ve spent too long with those Petri dishes.
Curious
George?
Cynical
I find that blogs penned (or typed, rather) when one is in the mood of a cynic are leaps and bounds above the rest, don’t you agree?
Depressed
Ugh, this sucks just as much as “crappy.”
Determined
I am determined to blog! You can’t stop me this time!
Devious
Haha, I’m scheming and blogging at the same time! What thrill!
Dirty
Haha. No comment!
Disappointed
Aw man, disappointment’s no fun. You know what I’ve noticed, Tom, from going through this list of moods (I’m actually doing this one as one of the last one)? You have more negative moods than positive ones, I think. For shame!
Discontent
As with cynical blogs, blogs expressing discontent (especially when they’re cynical as well) are often of great humor.
Disgusted
You, sir, disgust me!
Distractible
This is good for those bloggers who OH MY GOD THE TV IS ON AND THERE ARE COLORS!
Distraught
A synonym for the following mood. Why, Tom, why must you put so many synonyms?
Distressed
I’m freaking out! I’m so upset! At least I can blog as an outlet!
Ditzy
The eccentrically scatterbrained. Wee.
Dorky
Let me begin with “dorky” as the first part in a three part series involving the difference between a dork, a geek, and a nerd. A dork is someone who is passionate about learning/academia. Stay tuned for the other two definitions later in the review!
Drained
How I basically felt every night last summer after getting home from work at one in the morning. Do you know how hard it is to blog then for me?
Drunk
“Shut up, Susie!”
Eccentric
I love this mood!!!
Ecstatic
Oh joy! Oh rapture! Oh joy and rapture! Ecstasy is fun!
Oh, and the mood’s pretty good, too (I joke, people, you know I don’t do drugs).
Electric
Oh god, call the burn center!
Embarrassed
A mood unknown to the great Millard Fillmore, as he did nothing that would have caused himself embarrassment.
Energetic
Haha, oh dear. This is a scary, scary mood for many people. Including me.
Enlightened
Ah, Tom! The one mood I wish to embody constantly. If I am correct, I think this one is new. I shall use it indefatigably.
Enraged
In other words, angry. I swear, Tom—must we suffer through your constant synonyms at every turn?
Enthralled
I’m…I’m…I’m absolutely spellbound! I…I can’t even…wow.
Envious
The green-eyed monster blogs!
Evil
Mua-ha-ha-ha!! Curse all ye who come near me, 666 and all that…yeah.
Exanimate
I didn’t know the dead blogged.
Excited
Yippee!
Exhausted
Exhaustion leads to bad blogging. I advise against blogging when too tired to think correctly.
Exotic
Like the breed?
Fabulous
How one should feel after watching my Flash animations.
Fascinated
See above entry.
Fermented
I could make a joke about yeast here, but I’ll refrain.
Flirty
Is that a bell curve in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Focused
YOU CANNOT BREAK THIS CONCENTRATION. I AM AT THE UTMOST PEAK OF FOCUS AND SINGLE-MINDEDNESS. MY ONLY CONCERNS ARE BREATHING AND DOING WHATEVER IT IS I’M SO FOCUSED ON. HA!
Forgotten
Tom, you and your constant negativity…it is rampant in this list, young man, rampant! I think you need counseling, for I feel the childhood Tom is coming through in the moods you express. Ooh! Ooh! Idea for future blog: I analyze Tom’s psychosocial development through the moods he lists. Stay tuned.
Frisky
Oh-ho-ho! Tom! I didn’t know you encouraged blogging when people were feeling this way! Trouble, trouble, young man.
Froggy
Damn those infernal witches and their spells! Now I must find a princess to kiss…
Frustrated
AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Full
…of what? Rage? Contempt? Tacos? Specifics, Tom, we need specifics!
Gallant
I’m here to save you, for I am a knight in shining armor on my valiant steed!
Geeky
Second in the three part series involving the difference between a dork, a geek, and a nerd. A geek is someone passionate about a particular area or subject, one that is usually obscure or difficult. Stay tuned for the final definition later in the review!
Giddy
How I feel every time after watching the Yogi Bear thing.
Giggly
Teehee!
Gloomy
Another “Tom thinks little of the world and is a constant pessimist, drowning his sorrows in crafting a giant social network where he is capable of sending bitter subliminal messages to thousands via his bulletins” mood. Is anyone else gettin’ this vibe, or is it just me?
It’s just me, isn’t it.
Good
I feel that this specific mood assists in the monosyllabic and overall uninformative responses to questions this and the next generation seem to have acquired a taste for
“How are you?”
“Good.”
“What do you like to do?”
“Stuff.”
“What do you want?”
“Junk.”
You see? It’s all a plot!
…you have no idea what I’m talking about, do you?
Grateful
I am indeed very grateful to you, Tom, for creating this glorious thing called MySpace. Where else would I have given my trust to blog nearly 600 times?
Groggy
Warning: blogging whilst groggy may result in bad blogging or surprise blog pregnancy. To avoid this, take Advil, a glass of vodka, and see your doctor in three days if symptoms do not improve.
Grumpy
One of the dwarves! I liked grumpy. He was my favorite.
Guilty
Guilt sucks. What would the world be without it, though? Savage! Uncivilized! Like a Republican convention!
Handsome
I didn’t know handsome was a state of mind. This, like, totally shifts my perspective of how I should view my moods.
Happy
My least favorite dwarf.
High
“We’re high, man. We call each other ‘man,’ man.”
Hopeful
Please say I got an A in math…oh please oh please oh please…
Horny
Hello, what’s all this, then?
Hot
Why thank you, I think I’m pretty attractive, too.
Hungover
Haha, I love that Tom put this on here. Too many drunken bloggers complained that they couldn’t find an appropriate mood, I guess.
Hungry
Apparently, brightly colored plastic hippos feel this quite a lot.
Hyper
I felt this all of dead week. Explain that. I mean, really, it was freaking dead week. What was up with that?
Imaginative
Ahh, imagination. The world would be nothing about it. Well, yeah, it would still exist, but not the way we see it now.
Impatient
“Patience is a virtue,” my butt.
Impervious
This word always makes me think of American Pie. I think it’s because Michelle uses it once in the second one.
Implacable
I’m cruel and uncouth, and I’m not afraid to blog!
Impressed
Awe! It takes a lot to truly impress me.
Indescribable
My dear friend MySpace Tom, you would be a perfectly charming person and I would be unable to find any real reason to complain about your wonderful MySpace setup if it weren’t for this one mood. It pisses me off to no end, do you know that? Actually, perhaps it’s not you, dear Tom, that pisses me off about this situation but the English language itself. How can one feel indescribable while still being able to ascribe a word to it? How can one truly be “indescribable” if they are indeed feeling “indescribable?” AAAAAAAAH FREAKING LANGUAGE!
Indifferent
A synonym for apathy? I don’t care about this, either.
Indignant
You, sir, have offended me, and I say we must commence with a verbal duel! I make the first move with a sixte parry with the challenge, “them’s fightin’ words!”
Infuriated
No no, not just angry, infuriated. Don’t wanna mess with this.
Inquisitive
Blogs of the inquisitive-minded lead to great things, or so I believe.
Inspired
Ah! One should always blog when inspired. Then make Flash.
Insubordinate
Communists! I’ll run the black market, then where’ll you be, huh?
Intense
“Aw, hell yeah, man! I totally just rocked the business proposal and it was intense, bro, you know? Man, I’m gonna fire up the grill, have a few brewskies, hang with the bros, man, it’s totally awesome! Awesome to the max!“
Intimidated
…blogging scares me.
Irate
Hahaha…I love how the synonyms list on Microsoft Word has “very angry” for this one. No no, it’s not just anger, it’s extreme anger.
Irritated
Don’t push my buttons, I swear…
Jealous
Isn’t this basically the same as envious?
Jedi
Are you serious? George Lucas is going to sue your pants off, MySpace, I swear!
Jolly
Now Santa can blog.
Jubilant
Ah, being over the moon about something is grand. That’s all I have to say.
Knighted
Another “I’m not sure this qualifies as a mood” mood. Isn’t this more of a “state?” Or a status?
Lazy
Ah! SLUG! I like being lazy on occasion.
Lethargic
Now you may be asking, “Tom, why do you have both lazy and lethargic on the same mood list? Aren’t they basically the same thing?” And I would answer for Tom, “No, good soul! For you see, one can be lazy without being lethargic, and one can be lethargic without being lazy. In the first case you may be perfectly fine, even hyper, but still not want to do anything, while in the second case you may be feeling really run down and sluggish but still wanting to do things. See? It really is very simple.”
I need a life, don’t I?
Listless
Huh? What? Oh sorry, you’re blogging. Eh, I’m just going to sit on this couch here and not pay any attention, if you don’t mind.
Lonely
Aw, this mood makes me sad.
Loved
I find it funny/sad that “lonely” and “loved” are right next to each other. Is that just me?
Yeah, it’s just me, isn’t it.
Luminous
Ooh, like a candelabra? Candelabras are hot (haha, no pun intended. Man, I’m funny even when I don’t plan it).
Mad
“GAH, I HATE YOU, YOGI BEAR!”
Melancholy
I don’t know about you people, but I find a certain joy in the occasional melancholy mood, don’t you? I get to this heightened state of thought. It’s grand.
Mellow
You know what? I don’t think I’ve ever used this mood. Ever. Claudia ? mellow.
Mischievous
Hehe…I’m feelin’ naughty!
Miserable
There’s the old saying, “misery loves company.” Is this necessarily true? Sure, people like to tell others about their misery, but do people really want others to feel miserable with them? Or can this so-called “company” include just sympathizers or listeners? Perhaps I should stop reviewing these before I go insane.
Moody
I love you. No, I hate you! Life sucks. Now it rocks! WTF?
Morose
Another synonym for miserable! Tom sure likes this one, doesn’t he?
Naughty
Teehee. I’m not wearing panties!
Nauseated
“Ugh, I just saw Bush give another State of the Union address.”
Neglected
Tom, my friend, seek counseling.
Nerdy
Third in the three part series involving the difference between a dork, a geek, and a nerd. A nerd is someone who has difficulty with social interactions. I hope this clears some things up.
Nervous
Nervousness sucks, you know? And you know what else? I’m nervous way too often. New Year’s resolution: cut down on nervousness.
Ninja
I ask you, Tom, how one can feel “ninja?” Ninja-esque, perhaps, but feeling ninja? See “pirate.”
Nostalgic
I think feeling nostalgic is fun. But that’s just me and my twisted feelings.
Numb
Damn these infernal sleeping limbs!
Obsequious
Okay, seriously. How many MySpace users, teenaged emos and otherwise, are going to know what this word means? Is this for the more intellectual of bloggers? Was Tom in fact feeling obsequious to that specific demographic and thus decided to include this word? Ha! I’ve figured you out now, haven’t I?
Okay
“Eh, I’m good.” See “good” entry.
Optimistic
Optimism is overrated. I think optimists are constantly opening themselves up for disappointment, don’t you?
Overstimulated
Colors…noises…smells…tastes…touch…MAKE IT STOP, FOR GOD’S SAKE, I’M GOING TO DIE!
Peaceful
Fa-la-la-la-la…I’m Gandhi!
Peeved
Grrr!
Pensive
Isn’t this basically the same as contemplative? Wouldn’t one think that the contemplative among us would realize this while we’re contemplating to which word to set our mood and notice that there is at least one other synonym of “contemplative?”
…or am I contemplating this too much?
Pessimistic
Expect the worst. Hope for the best.
Pirate
Tell me, Tom, how can one feel “pirate?” I understand feeling up a pirate, but that hardly constitutes a mood, now does it? Next step up: “Scurvylicious!”
Pissed Off
The active state of being really, really angry. See entry below.
Pissy
What’s the difference between “pissed off” and “pissy,” you ask? I shall tell you. Being pissy is the resting state of being pissed off, comparable to potential energy. Being pissed off is the “active” state of anger, comparable to kinetic energy. And yeah, I totally just used a physics analogy to describe that. I’m cool.
Played
“I been played, homie!”
Pleased
Ah, finally a positive mood! Kudos, Tom, I’m seeing improvement after only three sessions!
Pretty
See “handsome” entry above.
Productive
I just ran a marathon, wrote a book, caught a fish, painted a portrait, learned French, swam the Nile, cured cancer, and got my PhD, all within the last five minutes! Hurrah!
Pugnacious
Another word that 98% of MySpace users probably don’t know. And am I feeling pissed about this fact? Nah. I’ll change it in due time via new and improved education standards (my new goal).
Pure
I believe that 88% of MySpace users cannot truthfully use this word.
Quiet
Psst…pardon me, sorry…if you don’t mind, I think I’ll blog.
Quixotic
Ah, the one mood in reference to a literary character! I must admit I feel this every once and awhile.
Rebellious
Tom, Tom, Tom. Must you encourage this?
Recumbent
Isn’t this more of a bodily position than a mood? I mean, I suppose it can be taken to mean “idle,” but that’s stretching it a bit, don’t you think?
Refreshed
Ahhhhhhhh…Colgate!
Rejected
Aw, Tom, this is no fun. No fun at all!
Rejuvenated
I just chugged twelve packets of sugar! No wait, that won’t rejuvenate me, that will make me insane.
Relaxed
I don’t think I’ve ever used this mood, either.
Relieved
I’m not going to review this one. Instead, I’m going to say that I’m hoping to feel this on Tuesday (or before) when I get my grades in. Cross your fingers, people!
Restless
Restlessness sucks!
Rockin’
Because words that end in “ing” spelled without the last “g” are hip!
Romantic
Ahh, romance. Where would we be without it?
Ah, well, some of us know. What the hell, though, romance is fun.
Rushed
Hurryuphurryuphurryuphurryuphurryup…
Sad
Your basic mood. You feel happy, you feel sad. I’d argue that this mood is too “general,” but I believe that sometimes you just feel sad, you know?
Sassy
Ah, go on, now! Who’s afraid of a little sass in their blogs?
Satisfied
Satisfaction. Satisfaction. Benny Benassi comes to mind.
Savage
Silly Tom! It is unwise for those who are savage to blog!
Scared
AGH! Ghosts and goblins and George W. Bush!
Selective
It is ill advised under this circumstance to alter your top 8 friends.
Shocked
Gasp! I’m…I’m at a loss for words!
Sick
*vomit*
Silly
Hahaha! I’m a silly, silly girl. Don’t you just love being silly on occasion? It’s just grand fun!
Sleepy
*snore*
Smart
If you feel smart, blog. End of story.
Smitten
I need to use this. A lot. I’m smitten about quite a lot of things.
Sneaky
I’ve never liked this word. I have no idea why.
Sneezy
Wait…another dwarf? What about other unrepresented little guys? Perhaps I don’t feel Sneezy, you know? Sometimes I just want to be a little Dopey or Bashful, is that too much to ask?
Sore
Can range from “aw, I just stubbed my toe” to “aw, I just became a quadruple amputee!”
Stalked
Haha! Hahahaha! Not a good mood to be feelin’. Tom, you humor me.
Stoked
Like a FIRE!
Stressed
Haha. I know this mood all too well. That’s what 22 credits’ll do to ya.
Strong
I can move MOUNTAINS, fool!
Surprised
GAH! Birthday party!
That’s all I can think of.
Sweaty
Ew…
Sympathetic
Sympathy is good, but it will DESTROY YOU! DESTROYYYYYYYYYYY…
(yeah, I’ve been doing this for too long. Good thing I’m already on the “s”s.)
Talkative
I think this is the perfect mood for blogging. Seriously. Wouldn’t one need to be slightly talkative in order to type out their thoughts? Especially when the blog is a public one? Just putting that out there.
Tested
Holy crap! This describes my whole semester. Really.
Thankful
Claudia approves of this mood. And totally blanked out on how to spell her name there for a second. Scary.
Thirsty
Again, isn’t this less of a mood than a physiological state? Ah, well. I guess if hungry is on here, thirsty should be as well.
Thoughtful
Thoughtfulness in one’s blog leads to a thorough and wonderful blog.
Tired
As with the “exhausted” mood, I feel that it is against one’s better judgment to blog when too tired to think straight. But hey, doing so could lead to some humorous things.
Touched
Touched as in moved, or touched as in the perverted sense? I guess it could go both ways.
Triumphant
HA! I have mastered whatever it was I was attempting to master, and I have emerged triumphant in my quest! Take THAT, everybody!
Uncomfortable
For blogging whilst sitting on a tack.
Understimulated
I’ve been sitting in a dark room for two weeks! I…need…stimulation!
Used
Like a book?
Validated
Like one’s parking?
Vehement
Oh, SWEET! This is a new one, I do believe. Thank you, Tom! I’m often so vehement about things, and now the world shall know! Bravo!
Vexed
This is probably the best synonym for “annoyed” there is. And that is all I have to say.
Vibrant
Ah! I like this one! I like it a lot. I should use it.
Virginal
I didn’t know people could feel like small, legless, rectangular harpsichords!
Vital
“I’m vital to this team, sir, and I swear I’ll do whatever you suggest to further the success of the company and move myself up the corporate ladder.”
Voluminous
I feel BIG, yo!
Wanted
Haha, oh dear. The felons have discovered MySpace!
Weird
Weird is good. Weird is very good.
Working
“Everybody’s working for the weekend…everybody needs a second chance…” Tell me what song that’s from and you get a dollar!
Worried
I use this one far too much. This is how I feel right now, in fact. “Grades,” you ask? Indeed.
79¢
This little doodad is fun. You can tell the “gender” of whatever you write by copying and pasting what you want to analyze into the little box. I had a lot of fun with this thing today, especially when I copied and pasted my entire list of blogs (all 500-some-odd of them) into the box.
The verdict?
It’s a boy!
Total male score: 156,151
Total female score: 107,073
All months were predominantly male except for July 2007. I have no idea why I was girly that month.
Yeah, I’m bored. How could you tell?
Paleontology? Ha! Not a chance!
I have this suspicion that my blogs have been sucky recently. Is it just me, or is it true?
Today’s full of random crap. Bear with.
~Still waiting for Voltaire pins. Excitement is building.
~I also found Candide on audiobook. Win.
~Where I wish to be employed in 10-15 years.
~My Flash god.
~How in the world did my map views on my profile jump to a staggering 1,733?
~Make me a Sartre doll and I shall give you $10.
~Wouldn’t it be awesome if I could make a Podcast of my blogs? Holy crap.
~You know what would be freaking awesome? We all dress in togas and such and go down to those big steps by the old arboretum and have a philosophy party.
Okay, enough of this. You all tell me what kinds of blogs you like, since lately I’m not sure what you all prefer. Do you like my random lists? Do you like me going over my day in an interesting fashion? Do you like my more contemplative (read: “thoughtful,” not depressing) blogs? What about the surveys, can you even stand those?
I’m making an effort to keep you people happy. Feedback! Now! *whip crack*
The Big 500
Well my friends, we’ve finally arrived. My 500th blog. Half way to 1,000. Bet you’re all looking forward to that day, huh?
Here are some stats for y’all, regarding my blogs:
500 posts
6,961 blog views
311 comments
195 kudos
Total pages (when copied into Microsoft Word): 321
Words: 126,347
How disturbing is that?
And, of course, as always, I must bring up past blogs. However, I’ve only chosen the top 2% (ten). These are special, my friends. Cherish them.
Top Blogs
- The Second Continental Chatroom
- Seuss on the Loose
- Rant Against Pants
- Ranking of the Names
- Font Personalities
- Ranking of the Presidents
- “Easy Mac”
- Words with Aneel
- Incompetent People Suck
- Dirty Stuff
Top Blog Titles
- Jimmy crack corn one more time and I’m referring him to a specialist
- “My whereabouts are none of your concern,” said the Little Star as he twinkle-twinkled
- If dyslexics wrote the Constitution we would have the right to arm bears!
- At first I was just friendly to the environment. But now we’re dating!
- The day that Camus backed into a sumac was the day the palindrome was born!
- I used to work at a bridal shop specializing in headdresses. My work there was to know a veil.
- I used to teach a failing fly-tying class until I realized my efforts were all for knot.
- This just in: geophagists across the globe are biting the dust!
- Drugs: the anti…oh wait.
- Where do the quadriplegics stand?
I look forward to entertaining you all at least 500 more times. I hope you’ve enjoyed this as much as I have.
John Adams, I do not feel you have the necessary capabilities to bring sexy back
Okay people, assuming I don’t die in the next half-day or so, I’m going to hit blog number 500 tomorrow.
Big thing for me, really.
I’m just glad that I didn’t start my blog one day prior to the day I did, because then my 500th blog anniversary would be on September 11th and that would not be a good thing.
Anyways, I figured I’d update my self summary thingy on the front page, change up my song for a little bit, and try and figure out why the fonts of my blogs’ titles never stay the same as I set them.
I have no idea what to do for tomorrow’s blog. Something with the titles, perhaps? I’ve had some good titles, and they always entertain me personally more than the blogs themselves. Or maybe that’s just me.
Final note: are any of you guys (Matt and/or Maggie, considering you’re the only ones who read this) going to the fair? I was thinking we could all go to the fair on Saturday before the big happy fun time WSU game that night. What do you think?
Oh wait, one final final note: was I just hallucinating today or was the last “short” in our shorts list for marching band “Sexy Back”? Cause if it’s “Sexy Back” I fear I may just have a seizure of joy in the stands.
FINALLY! Holy CRAP!
Why, why, why do you hate me, MySpace?
Seriously, why? It’s been a month and a half or so. I’ve finally been able to get these up. Sincere apologies. I just sent a nasty letter.
Apologies, guys. I hope these 44 (yes, 44) new blogs are sufficient repayment for not being able to get them up earlier.
I’m peeved.
Eigenblogger 