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I just accidentally deleted my own post instead of N's draft... Oops! I might type it again but probably not...

"Rootin' Tootin' Putin": Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Things He's Done

Recently, my friends who do Quiz bowl/Knowledge bowl told me that there was a question asking about someone who rides horses while being shirtless. The answer was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia, also known as Rootin' Tootin' Putin by my seventh grade social studies teacher. Anyway I began wondering if he's done anything else, um, interesting. (You know, besides doing stuff as the President of Russia...)


Well, take a look.

1. Maybe he saved a television crew from a tiger... According to The Telegraph, according to Russian media, Putin was visiting the Ussuri reserve to see how researchers monitor the tigers, and suddenly, a tiger escaped and charged towards a nearby television crew. Putin pulled out a tranquilizer gun and shot the tiger. (But it wasn't caught on camera...)
2. He flew with migrating birds in a glider. Dressed in a puffy white jumpsuit, Putin flew in a motorized hang glider and led cranes on their migration path. Fun fact: The cranes were considered by the area's original inhabitants to be gods.
3. While scuba diving, he "found" pieces of ancient pottery. This one was basically a fail. Putin went scuba diving and came up holding pieces of what appeared to be ancient Greek pottery. However, many people were suspicious. After all, he had only gone to water about six feet deep. The chances that ancient pottery had just been sitting there without anyone seeing? Heh, almost none. Soon, Putin's spokesman revealed that it had all been set up.
4. His puppy was named by a five year old kid. (The human kind of kid, not the goat. I'm just clarifying. I wouldn't put it past Putin to discuss puppy names with young goats...) Putin received a Bulgarian shepherd puppy from Bulgaria's head of state after signing some natural gas deals. He asked for name ideas from the public and finally chose Buffy, a name suggested by Dima Sokolov. Later on, Putin gave the boy an autographed soccer ball when he and his family visited Putin and met the puppy.
5. Judo. On his 56th birthday, Putin released an instructional judo video creatively titled "Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin." I'm pretty sure he's the only President to ever make an instructional Judo DVD...

http://imgur.com/gallery/Bj2vb

Mobius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 5 BREAKING NEWS

Politics

Breaking News

Mountain Du had a diplomatic meeting with LiarVem regarding increased naval supplies. Whynanaught invaded but a naval blockade prevented them from entering the Bay of Solitude. Meanwhile Niz's brother, Poshambaeu, allied with Liarvem and the leaders of Mountain Du to expell C from the capital of Ni. C was pushed into the bottomless pit of Ar's city center. Soon after, he was violently pushed out while riding a horse shirtless while killing bears.

This has been called the Siege of Lai and has forced GM to resign as chief of roping.

Mountain Du and Ni are planning a full scale attack on Whynanaught.

Meanwhile, the Kabooze has secretly annexed more storage space. 

A plague has spread throughout Pickeringvania, and it has caused the "computer" to slow down.

Mobius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 4 -- Substitute Teacher, Second Place, and Syrup

"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."

POLITICS

Today, in an alternate universe, Wupan launched an attack on Winaught while two of the leaders were away on a diplomatic mission in a territory of Pickeringvania. Pickeringvania, the largest and most powerful (though very sparsely populated) country, intervened before either side suffered any major damages. Earlier this week, Lairvem of Ni attempted to conquer a third of Winaught through a naval battle, now called the Battle of Caboose.
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Mountain Du: Will Wupan and Dupan finalize their alliance under the name of Mountain Du? The world waits.

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EDUCATION

Mystery of the missing substitute teacher! One vice principal claims that she was there. Students and another vice principal insist otherwise. Conspiracy theories abound. What really happened?
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Middle school band and orchestra concerts were so touching and beautiful that even babies were crying by the end.
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Unclear grading scale for the formative assessments show a decrease in score for all students. Teachers are deeply concerned as to why students lose points for their right answers.
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ART
Local artist Ray Bow wins second place in a a two-person art competition for his "The Spirit: Free" Play-doh chunk sculpture.
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A modern art showcase is to be held at the community center. Amazing works such as Ray Bow's famous Emotions: Canvases That are Painted a Solid Color series, "A Photoshopped photograph of a can of Rockstar Recovery" by Brandon Conley, and an anonymous artist's set of paper sculptures including "My Life" and "Hey, Look at this Random Scrap of Paper that I Found". These and many more pieces will be on display on Saturday and Sunday from 9:00:00 am to 9:07:57 am. Please come and enjoy the talent of our local artists!
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HEALTH

New study shows that re-posting unrealistic romance stories featuring a person diagnosed with a chronic illness does not actually increase the monetary support for finding the cure or cure the people with that disease or anything else, really. Teenagers on social media express great surprise.
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High levels of medium fructose corn syrup may be in school food. "Is that even a thing?" commented a befuddled principal. A bear shaped cookie is being carefully dissected at the university lab. Reports are scheduled to come out sometime within the next millennium. 

"Abbey'a pkucky postulant"

Well, it's been a while since I posted a typo I'd found. Here's one.

From the New York Daily News website

"Abbey'a"? Really? Yes, the s and a keys are next to each other, but what happened to proofreading?
And what is "pkucky"? I suppose I can assume it's "plucky", but I shouldn't have to assume that one non-word is a word!

By the way, this is from an article on "The Sound of Music Live!" which was playing on NBC Thursday night.
(It wasn't terrible, but I enjoyed the 1965 movie much more. However, I guess it's not very fair to compare these two. The movie was a movie; "The Sound of Music Live!" was an attempt at a live musical on television. The movie had Julie Andrews as Maria; "The Sound of Music Live!" featured Carrie Underwood. The two just had different goals and constraints.)

Mobius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 3 -- Copper, Land of Speckles, and TimeCon

"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."

EDUCATION

A freak accident involving pieces of copper occurred in the room of an eminent science teacher's classroom this week. Several students were attempting to bend a bar of copper when suddenly the bar violently twisted itself into a figure eight, and flew into the air. One child suffered eleven broken fingers as well as a bruise on his lower thigh. When asked for commentary, the child (name withdrawn for privacy) told us, "Hey, I get to miss school for at least a week!" Another student lost three toenails in the midst of the havoc. According to school officials, the metal bar has yet to be found.
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Many Latin 1 students adopt maxims "We won't work harder." and "Classmate T. is always right!" that are strangely reminiscent of Orwell's Animal Farm.
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Board of Education shocked that advanced words such as "barrel" and "sandwich" were used in a middle school spelling bee.
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ENVIRONMENT
In an alternate universe, an island chain half a dozen feet south from the recently expanded empire of Ni has been flooded due to rapidly rising ocean levels.These islands used to be called the Land of Speckles, aptly named for its very small islands that were in close proximity to one another. However, the flooding has reduced the islands' land area above water to miniscule dots, invisible to the naked human eye. A renaming process is in progress. Suggested names include South Ni, WaterWorld, and I-don't-even-care-stop-asking-me-these-random-questions (abbreviated as IDECSAMTRQ).

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AND NOW SOME WORDS FROM OUR SPONSOR...
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SPORTS

The annual thumb wrestling tournament was held on Friday after being rescheduled due to the clement weather. "Friday's continuous rain, freezing temperatures, and lack of sunshine definitely contributed to the most successful tournament in years, maybe even decades!" exclaimed Mr. Tom West Ling, the sponsor of the tournament. Following a brief review of the rules, round one of the competition began. It took twenty rounds to arrive at the two finalists, Josephine "Jo"  Schmoe and William Robert "Billy Bob" Joe. As the two engaged in the intense final thumb wrestling match of the day, spectators say that the rain pounded harder and harder until finally, Jo Schmoe pinned down Billy Bob Joe's thumb with a triumphant yodel. Schmoe told us, "I'm extremely happy about my win. I used to be the thumb wrestling champion of my third grade class, and it's been lots of fun to continue my childhood hobby!"

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MISCELLANEOUS
The regional People With Time Machines Prototypes Convention (commonly known as the TimeCon) is scheduled for last Sunday. The TimeCon event organizers want us to remind participants to arrive as early as possible but still arrive on last Sunday.

Complaining About This Thing I See on Google+

Honestly, I'm tired of seeing things like these show up at the top of my "What's Hot" tab on Google+.

Yeah, posts with pictures like these too...

Oh, you know what I'm talking about! The sentences that are supposed to be deep, inspirational, wise life advice superimposed on some completely irrelevant photograph, often including an outdoor scene or a teenaged girl (or both). These bits of "life lessons" often make very little sense and make gross generalizations. Considering how I'm often annoyed by these two things, I wonder how these get so popular. (The only things possibly more irritating to see in my What's Hot tab is probably the usually cheesy and nonsensical love advice that inevitably pops up somewhere.) Recently, at the top of my What's Hot feed was one of these, for the lack of a better term, "sentence and  things with 1, 271 +1's. On the other hand, a post with a really cool hypocycloid animation only had 107 +1's. *sigh*


In case I haven't mentioned this to you yet, I generally dislike when people complain about things and then don't even try to change the situation. As not to be a hypocrite, I am now trying to solve this issue by trying to show Google+ that while yes, several people who seem to like these "sayings on pictures" posts very much have me in their circles, I do not enjoy seeing several of them whenever I go to the What's Hot tab. I've joined a couple more communities and +1 -ing posts I actually like. It hasn't really worked yet, but it's only been two days.

How to Make a Stereotypical Asian mad

Mobius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 2 -- Unsuccessful Cheating, Cupcakes, and Laziness

"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."

POLITICS

In an alternate universe, the tiny yet surprisingly successful country of Ni has conquered long time rival country Niz, thus gaining roughly four square feet of land. Lairvem, the leader of Ni, generously allows Arjib, the former leader of Niz, to continue using the land that used to be his. No serious conflicts have arisen, but it is rumored that Winaught, a massive country bordering Ni, is supplying Ni with the latest warfare weaponry, such as paper plates and value napkins.

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EDUCATION

Breaking News: "Religious" school fails at cheating during a robotics competition!
Students were reported to be conspicuously nudging the obstacles with their feet, but still, they were not able to successfully complete the competition. As a science teacher from another school told us, "Pathetic!"
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Enraged students file complaints about the lack of food at a class party
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Local teacher applauded for bringing cupcakes to class
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Do educational puns help children learn better by making classes less "Bohr-ing?"
Ongoing studies are inconclusive.

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SPORTS

Thumb wrestling tournament canceled due to clement weather
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Jump rope competitions are to be held outside the Children's Museum tomorrow at midnight. Please bring your own jump rope(s), beverages, and thesauruses.

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HEALTH

A Sunday School teacher tries implementing doing situps as the new activity after lessons, and the children love it! Many parents, however, are skeptical about having their children exercise.
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MISCELLANEOUS

The reporters for Möbius Strip News are too lazy to write more extensive reports for readers. Instead, they have resorted to mostly using headlines. We wish to tell you that we hope you've had a nice, relaxing week, but even that's a bit too much to type.

New Background

The Why Not? team has been dissatisfied with the current blog background. The main reason for this is that hundreds of other blogs probably have the same background.
Because of this, a new, custom blog background is being made. There are several major changes to the blog design that you will probably need to be warned about before you panic, as the blog's former readers had often done in the past when a major layout change was applied..

First of all, the posts' background will be transparent so that the best parts of the background will be visible. However, the text should show up since the background is mostly white and pale-ish colors.
Most of all, don't complain that you don't understand the inside jokes that will be on the background. In fact, just one post about the background is enough talk about it. The background is a very minor thing compared to actual posts.

Three Things I Like that were said by Other People First

C'est la vie.
Meaning: Such is life. (Google Translate claims it means "That is life," and N claims it means "It is life," but I'm sticking with the meaning I know. Sorry, N.)
Why I Like It: As long as I'm alive, this phrase will be applicable. Plus, foreign language phrases generally sound "sophisticated," or at least interesting.

Nuh-uh!
Meaning: No! It's really more like a general negative response.
Why I Like It: It sounds comical, in a good way. If you've ever heard my science teacher saying this, you'd know exactly what I mean.Pronounced with a strong accent on the second syllable, this short exclamation is just great. I don't use it that much because honestly, it sounds better coming from my teacher than me.

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
Meaning: Oh, come on, just read that. It's very straightforward. No, this is not what that quote means. I'm just telling you to read that quote in order to obtain its meaning.
Why I Like It: Well, first of all, I like libraries. Second of all, I like taking this literally. This quote  involves both of them. What's there not to like? Thank you for that, Lemony Snicket.

Mobius Strip News: Volume 1, Issue 1 -- Macrons, Imagine Learning, and Death of a Snake

"Your source for somewhat true and completely wonderful local news."

AS SPARTAN PROVERBS TELL US...
"It's DYIN'!"
"STAHP itt-uhhh!"
 "To climb stairs, one must climb the stairs."
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HEALTH
New virus? -- Two local, middle-aged women manage not to use the restroom for over eight hours yet report no major discomfort, a symptom of a possible new virus. The new virus seems to be extremely contagious, however only at a close range. A determined team of two scientists are hard at work researching this strange new virus, putting in up to five minutes of diligent work each day.
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 Does writing macrons in Latin cause carpal tunnel syndrome?
Ongoing studies say it's not completely impossible.

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NOW SOME WORDS FROM OUR SPONSOR...

New product of unspecified name has arrived at the school book store! It's advertised to reduce stress and intelligence. Now you'll finally "fit in!" Woo hoo!
(Price will vary depending on the first letter of your last name and whether or not you have ever eaten wood ear mushrooms.)
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 EDUCATION

Middle school students are encouraged to imagine learning through the state's newest ingenious program, fittingly named Imagine Learning. Each school computer comes installed with a copy of Imagine Learning, but few teachers are implementing it.
Regardless, interviews with students reveal that this is a very popular new system. "It's, like, so much better than the old way of, you know, actually learning stuffs!" reported an enthusiastic girl smacking on a piece of Trident Layers gum of undetermined flavor. The teachers are slowly warming up to it though. "I used to think it was a crazy idea, but the students love it and don't ever have pointless questions! Could the state education system actually have thought up something beneficial?" one teacher mumbled as he sipped a mug of clear liquids.
School faculty hopes that Imagine Learning will help students adjust to the Uncommon Bore curriculum as they refine their imagination skills.
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"Advanced" Latin students shocked to discover that fellow classmates are alive and have functioning brains.
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Two printers appear in one classroom: Sorcery?

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OBITUARY

The Why Not? admins mourn the tragic death of an innocent snake.
However, in an interview with several semi-barbaric homosapiens, they were reported to have unreasonably high levels of relief and even happiness over the tragic loss.
Nine square inches of land have been dedicated for a memorial in memory of the snake. (Construction is set to begin within ninety years.)

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OTHER NEWS

Impromptu celebrations abound as the arrival of the newest issue of Imagine magazine is announced.
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This week's word of the weak has been "theme." Any student caught using the word was to be harassed for being weak enough to use "theme."

Möbius Strip News Coming This Week!

Our "news" reports are finally coming! It will be called Möbius Strip News as it will deliver only one side, the interesting side, of all the local happenings. The first issue of the first volume will be published sometime this week!
Each hopefully weekly issue will feature many headlines, summaries of local events, quotes, wisdom, and advertisements unlike any you've seen before.
I'm aiming for Friday night or Saturday morning so be on the lookout for the newest possibly entertaining, possible true source of local news.

News on the News

The fake news series will most likely be on this blog, not on a separate one. (Original post here.) Why? I'm too lazy to keep up with another blog. The name of these posts will be either Möbius Strip News, Möbius News, Mushroom, News: The Place for all of Your Newsynewy by New NewsyNewsman or... Wait, that's all I've got. Comment your suggestions.
Hopefully, there will be "news" posted at least once a week starting from next week.
Hopefully.

"Cuss Words"

I recently saw a comment that censored a "cuss word" using asterisks. Then I saw, in reply to that comment, a comment shaming the person for not being able to use the "cuss word."

It reminded me of NigaHiga's censorship video. (Go watch it if you haven't already. Even if you have, it's probably worth watching again.) What's the whole deal with "cuss words?" They are just sounds with meanings that are not nearly as bad as loathe or genocide, yet we use those freely because we need to use them to describe things. I suppose the main thing about cuss words it that they are considered an offensive way of conveying a message. (Personally, I find Chinese insults and Shakespearean insults much more interesting...) Or maybe it's a result of people's inability to be frank about some subjects, such as human body waste or reproduction.

Personally, I see no wrong in being uncomfortable possibly offending people, and I see no wrong in using the occasional "cuss word." We all will probably use at least one in our life times. However, purposely offending people is never a good thing, and it's important to respect others' opinions on language. There's no need to attack people because of minor vocabulary issues. If the grammar and spelling is correct, I'd be satisfied enough, especially since it's on the Internet.

UPDATE: Vsauce made a video that relates to this! Have a look...

GM's Greatest Accomplishment of This Week

Robot Checks

Last Thursday and Friday, I spent a lot of time trying to get on the Why Not? team's shared Google account.
After trying many possible passwords, Google thought I was a robot and I had to do the robot check things.
  Robot checks anger me. They are supposed to check to see if you are a bot, but the system is flawed since they have gotten to a point where even I can't tell what text is in the picture.
I'm sure I'm not a robot. Maybe I'm a clone, but certainly not a robot.
If you people think that I could read those horrendously blurry pictures, then you are wrong. Typing is slowly replacing writing these days, so I have less experience in decoding messy handwriting than the last generation. However, the robot check pictures just get blurrier and messier.
I know that some blogs (cough, cough, C) have robot checks, but what is the point of them? Wouldn't it be interesting if a robot commented?
Even if it were spam, you could just delete it.

The Mystery of Colds

  As you may not know, I currently have a cold . Because of this, I have been pondering a question that has bothered me for years about the origin of the disease.
  I know that some of you are going to say "Why don't you look it up?" The first reason is that viruses are too small to see with the unaided eye. The second reason for this is that I dislike looking up things unless they are about Pokemon. Researching things is one of the things that drives me crazy for no apparent reason. I prefer to think about things and come up with a plausible answer in my own words, instead of copying the answers of others. Because of this, I do not want you to answer the question for me.  (Next year's resolution: Limit the usage of the word "things")
  Many, if not most, people stubbornly cling to the belief that colds are caused by being cold and/or wet. The minority say it is caused by a number of different reasons, including the increased spread of viruses when people are all huddled at home around a space heater. Despite the wording of the first sentence in this paragraph, I find myself unsure of which side is correct. There seems to be an equal amount of supporting and disproving information for both sides.
  The main bit of information that supports the minority is that you do not get viral infection from being cold. Coldness does not make viruses spawn out of nowhere. Since winter is cold season, and the defining characteristic of winter is cool weather, it must have something to do with that. When it's cold, people are going to sit at home, crowding around their main heat source. At this close proximity, it is only a simple matter for the viruses to go a few feet and find a new person to infect. Sounds reasonable, right?
  And yet, you can't help but feel like colds would be the biggest coincidence ever if that were true. Colds only seem to happen right after you are cold or wet. You didn't put on a jacket this morning/ and or didn't sleep with a blanket last night this? BOOM! A cold! You made the mistake of swimming at this time of year? BOOM! A cold!
  Also, there is the absence of colds in summertime to consider. When it is summer, people are all huddled around their air conditioning and cooling fans (Fan joke). Why aren't we getting sick then? Cold viruses are around all year. We are at the same close proximity to each other at that time of year, too.
  Perhaps the answer is a combination of both. Perhaps neither is right. Maybe one of them is right. I'll just have to sit on the fence for this one.

(Short) Link Day- Veteran's Day

Here are some links for your enjoyment on your day off for Veteran's Day tomorrow.
(Sorry, hypothetical visitors who do not get a break from school or work...)

http://newspaperblackout.com/
Newspaper Blackout- Weirdly intriguing and awesome form of poetry. It's all in the name. Get a newspaper and black out the words you don't need to get a poem. It's almost like a more awesome version of magnetic poetry.


http://www.codecademy.com/
Codeacademy- Learn how to code in Javascript, Python, and more. I don't use this, but GM and Connor (of the blog There's Always a Catch) do. I'm more of a learn-out-of-a-book person. I have no idea how good it is, but if you're interested in coding, take a look!

http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/
Cookie Clicker- Basically, you click a cookie over and over again. It's not as boring as it seems, somehow, and you'll discover just how quickly you can click. Comment and let me know if you get to the Portal or Time Machine levels!

Time Travel, Again

(Yep, again. Though, to be honest, my last time travel post was over a year ago. http://whynot2000.blogspot.com/2012/09/time-travel.html)

     Yesterday, I watched this MinutePhysics video about ways to travel through time. There were three simple, everyday ways that we use to travel through time, and then three more complicated ways that no one has accomplished yet.

     I am beginning to wonder if time travel far into the past or future relative to everything else is a good idea at all. In addition to risks listed in the previous time travel post, there are other strange possibilities. Let's say you are able to go back in time and prevent Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Immediately, there would be some kind of ripple effect as all the events related to Lincoln's assassination change to adapt to your actions. So then you go back to the present, where everything could be drastically different. Have you returned to the time you left or entered a parallel universe? If parallel universes do not exist, what happened in the world as you quite literally changed the course of history? However, if some unknown laws that govern the universe may prevent you from intervening with Lincoln's assassination, then you would return to the world you left.
     People could make small changes to the past accidentally that completely changes an important event. Even kicking a rock could result in a wagon tipping over after hitting the rock, thus making some soon to be important person late for the event that will make him famous. Even sneezing could spread illness to a prominent historical figure, causing her to be unable to do whatever she needs to do in time.
     I also can't help but wonder if it's worth pursuing ways to time travel, in the way that I previously described at least. If time travel is eventually invented, why aren't there any people from the future here today? Why isn't there an abundance of stories in history about mysterious people just coming out of no where? Are the time travelers purposely avoiding the block of time in which there are humans who have not yet discovered how to time travel as not to interfere? When one travels to the future, does one gain memories from the gap of time between departure and the arrival? Have all the time travelers been slung off to an alternate universe in which things are very, very different? Do parallel universes even exist?
    If time traveling machines were invented today, I really don't think I'd be tempted to test it out.

Fake News

I'm considering making a second blog that gives fake daily or weekly news reports about events at my school. They may or may not be based on real happenings. So a bit like a local version of The Onion.
Any input, my dear few readers?

What the Book Reviews Really Mean: A Simple Translation Tool

This week, as you might know, is the book fair. The book fair is awesome, but I sometimes have a terrible time deciding which books to buy. Of course, the text on the back is supposed to help, but sometimes it can be misleading.
Here, I have a translation guide of two phrases that often appear in the reviews included on the back of books to help you know exactly what kind of book you're getting.

Phrase: "For fans of the Hunger Games..."
Meaning: Yet another book set in dystopian and/or post-apocalyptic America in which a bright, special teenaged girl undergoes a drastic lifestyle change, falls in love with some male figure with an interesting past, and ends up trying to improve society while worrying about her love interest. May contain a love triangle because some people think that's the main thing that will grab your attention.

Phrase: "For fans of Harry Potter..."
Meaning: Here's a book involving a lovable child with supernatural abilities who makes friends with other magical people, possibly at some school or camp. The child most likely has at least one missing parent and probably goes through an often used story, such as finding a powerful object to restore peace. This book is not as good as Harry Potter because it's not Harry Potter.

Posessed Auditoriums

Today I was playing at the Spartan Supper concert, and a remarkable coincidence ocurred.
The band was nearing the end of the second piece, and the sound of firecrackers covered up the melody. (There weren't actually firecrackers, but that was what it sounded like.) After the piece, there were only more noises, each louder than the last.

Six months ago, I was playing in the spring concert. When the symphonic band was almost done with their second to last piece, there was also a cacaphony of random explosion noises.
As I got off the stage today, I heard a great theory about this coincidence. Someone said "It's the ghost of Michael House possesing the auditorium!"

Stupidity and Its "Cure" Awareness

You may know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, possibly because of all the people wearing pink shirts. While breast cancer is a problem, there are many much bigger problems in the world today too. I personally think stupidity/lack of logic is most likely the biggest issue. Yesterday, when I saw about a dozen people in pink Breast Cancer Awareness Month shirts, I wondered, Why isn't there a Stupidity Awareness Month? There isn't even a Stupidity Awareness Week or Day! Look, even an hour would be a good start, but even that doesn't exist! 

But now I realize this cause doesn't need a month of people wearing pink shirts encouraging people to find the cure to breast cancer and advertising the message that hope is the best thing since the wheel.

Stupidity is much easier to "cure" than cancer. It just requires people not suffering stupidity or only suffering mild stupidity to kindly correct those suffering more severe stupidity whenever they make a basic mistake and/or say something completely illogical. By helping one another, the general level of stupidity will drop.

It's such a large problem that a month is simply not enough for stupidity awareness, and honestly, I think we are all acquainted with someone who is rather stupid, or at least acts like they are. So really, I guess it's not that we're not aware of stupidity. We actually just don't bother to implement the solution.

Pokemon Y

Yes! I have Pokemon Y now! It's time to kill fairy Pokemon!

Silence: So What?

I hate generalizations that are untrue.
Look at what I found under my What's Hot tab:



Gag...
Seriously? Have you considered that she's sleeping? Or dead? Or in school during a lesson? Or in silent lunch? Or typing a blog post? None of those are particularly dangerous. If a girl is silent, she could just be plain thinking. Is that dangerous? I suppose if we start letting people actually think, they might just realize how stupid so many aspects of society can be. Maybe then people would start trying to change things for the better. What's wrong with that? Right, nothing!
I can already see all those people who fear change shuddering. Oh no, a threat to life as we know it! We can't change! No! Aaaaah! Thinking is so dangerous!

As much as I disagree with this person, I'd like to see what he/she thinks about boys being silent. I wonder if it would be the same or if the person thinks silent boys are plotting something sinister, violent, or both.

Also, I think this is a great example of America's unfortunate "extrovert ideal." You know, how the loud, bold people are often seen as the smart ones or the leaders or quite simply, the ideal person, and being quiet is simply not that good. Quiet children are labeled shy or too sensitive and poked and prodded to speak more often. Quantity does not guarantee quality, and I think that applies to human speech too. I mean, occasionally, I am quiet because I am feeling hurt (but never because I was about to combust). That does not mean it's the only possibility for being quiet. I often prefer to just think or be alone, and that does not mean I have suicidal intentions, depression, or the desire to be a serial killer. I simply want to "recharge" and think about what's going on in the world. Personally, I think if everyone took just a little more time to contemplate things instead of complaining loudly about them, we would get a lot more done and there would be a lot less conflict and annoying people.

Think about it. Silently. Shhh.

Short Post #9

If I had a million dollars for every time that Nilai's heads were not cut off by lawnmowers or kicked off by inconsiderate people for at least 3 months, then I would be rich since it's happened once.

Don't Be...

Personally, I wouldn't be jealous of anyone who has a kid who cannot remember not to put an apostrophe in "theirs." Well, unless the kid has some humongous array of redeeming qualities and/or just began learning English... At least he/she remembered to capitalize the first letter of the first word of each sentence.

School? School.

GM- We go to school since we wouldn't choose to learn by ourselves. We'd just sit around since there would be no one to force us to be productive. And besides, many businesses don't take homeschooled people as seriously a school-educated people.
 
RF- I realize the thing is trying to be funny, but it has such a careless air of stupidity that it really just shows how much we need school/some kind of formal education.
First, like GM said, few people will actually buy a globe or watch Dora. Now YouTube, sure, but again, most will not bother to delve into music genres beyond pop.
Second, all those arguments are not true. I already briefly mentioned the music thing. YouTube has a lot of amazing content, but its ability to teach you how to play an instrument is not nearly as good as a real human. If by music, you mean music history, YouTube has stuff, but will you really go look it up? Wii can be a substitute for exercising in the traditional ways, but you are still spending time in front of a screen, which you would have already done for hours on YouTube for you "music" "education." Also, who's going to require you to play Wii?
On to Spanish. From my experience, Dora uses few Spanish words. After watching Dora, you will probably know how to say hi, bye, let's go, jump, and the names of a couple animals. How helpful will that be in communicating? You can't even ask where the bathrooms are! It's kind of the same in English. You can't communicate with only the phrases "laughing out loud," "be right back," and "I don't know." Although, if we really stopped having school, "IDK" might just suffice for most situations.
In math, having a calculator does not make you able to do math. If you don't know what numbers to put in, how is any answer going to appear? As for geography, globes are nice, but not the most detailed things ever. Also, who would actually buy one? Last, but certainly not the least incorrect one, is the argument for history. History is not dead. The effects of the events in the past are still in our present. Learning about the past helps us understand the present. Furthermore, you are part of history. Would you like the future people to just say, "Well, they're dead, so it's not like they ever mattered." Learning history helps you remember there were people before you, and there will be more people after you. We will eventually all be gone, with no one to remember the great works of anyone, but I think we should remember because we can and owe it to those who before us.

In conclusion, yes, we need education!

Link Day: Pre-Fall Break 2013

Hello, hello, hello, nearly nonexistent readers! Welcome to this year's Pre-Fall Break Link Day, brought to you by me, RF, as usual. A little less than a year ago, during Fall Break of 2012, I started this series, and look how it has grown from just one unpopular post to now eight unpopular posts!
Achievement unlocked!
Anyway, let's get right to the links that will hopefully entertain you just a bit.

1. Welcome to Night Vale - Listen to Cecil report the local news for Night Vale: "A small desert town where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful and mysterious lights pass over us while we all pretend to sleep." Probably the most strange and fascinating podcast on the planet. (Also on iTunes, Soundcloud, and maybe some other places.)

2. Most Common Words in English- May or may not be completely accurate, but did you know that the word dumb is number 4725, stupid is 2730, and smart is 1874?

3. Fake Science- As much as I love real science (which is really quite a bit), these fake science tidbits can be immensely amusing.

4. Slogan Generator- This is also amusing, and hey, maybe once in a while a good one will even pop up. I tried this a couple times with the word "mushrooms." Results: 3-in-1 Protection For Your Mushrooms, I Can't Believe It's Not Mushrooms, Makes you Feel Mushrooms Again, Why Have Cotton When You Can Have Mushrooms?

5. Toddler Art or Modern Art? Quiz -Honestly though, who knows?

Arrgh! Blegh!

Today I noticed that N's post had been plussed three times on Google+. Then I noticed that I let horrible grammar disfigure the blog. Go ahead an look at the poor grammar while I bang my head on the wall. 

Wishes

One of the many cliche story plots floating around in the literary world is the wishes-gone-wrong one.
I now know what I would say if someone were to offer me a wish:                                                                I wish that I would be able to do nothing for a day.
This wish is impossible to grant. No matter what happens to you, you will always be doing something. I challenge you. Go and think of a condition where you are not doing anything. Then tell me. If that is a condition where you are not doing anything, I will give you a guest admin-ship and let you kick N's heads off.

Weekends Suck

If you used to be a regular reader of Why Not?, then you my recall when Alec Vacanti was an author.(No one except for the staff of Why Not? regularly reads the blog anymore. Bleh to you.)
If so, you may also remember when We still had a page just for Sucky Saturdays, which only debuted once.
When Sucky Saturdays first came out, I was thinking "Wow, Alec, you of all people would dislike Saturdays." Back then, I would say that Saturday was my favorite day of the week.
Since the start of the new school year, I find that I do not like weekends anymore. I have isolated a number of reasons for this.
These are:
1.  Having to actually do actually do things- Yes, I do things on weekdays. But I specifically don't like doing things like shopping, going to church, and taking walks. If I haven't mentioned before, shopping is the dullest thing I can think of. I detest it. I cannot imagine actually enjoying a trip to the mall like most of the other people I know. Having religion forced onto me is not exactly the most fun thing ever. The concept of a walk is not that bad, but to take a walk at this time of year means getting up early or doing it at that time.

2. The Time- The Time, as I call it is the worst part of the weekend. The Time starts at 2:30-ish and lasts until 6:00. The Time does not occur at all during weekdays. I always sense the coming of The Time even when I am not looking at a clock or out of the window. But what is The Time? The Time is when I am devoid of most creativity, inspiration, and general happiness. I find myself unable to do anything productive during The Time. When I go outside to go shopping(shopping likes to occur during The Time at my house), everything looks bleak and boring. I frequently "zone out" and think of nothing. Of course, there are times when The Time does not occur, such as cloudy days when I cannot see the depressing shade of blue in the sky synonymous with The Time or rainy days. Afterwards, during the weekdays, I cannot remember the feeling caused by The Time, so that also provides some relief.

3. Planning to get so many things done, but not actually getting to do them- This happens every single weekend. I go home on Friday, thinking "Oh, I have so much home work to do, but I'll get done within the two days! When I'm done, I'll do all the things I plan to do- like getting another 10% of the Python course done and leveling up twice in Magic!" But then Saturday comes and I never do those things. First I get up, and get  done with a few missions of my 3DS game. Then I have to clean some part of the house which somehow always takes around three hours. Then The Time comes, and I still don't get anything done. Next I come back at around 6:00 and I am expected to do some more things. In fact, I don't know if it's even allowed for me to be typing this post. Then I do math and go to bed, having accomplished none of the things I planned to do. (Sunday is actually pretty much the same, except I do the math at 4:30 and try to get everything done right before the day is over.)
 
   Darn it. this makes me look like a lazy, ungrateful person who has mental issues. Okay, fine I admit that I somehow play Runescape for at least two hours straight every weekend instead of getting things done.

   Anyways, I'm going to go ahead and say that I also think I have some sort of minor insanity, just to prove that I am not in fact insane. But I really do hate weekends. I always expect a time to relax after a week of not doing things I want to do, but it never happens anymore. I hear that everyone else did get to do things that they wanted to, and that just makes my weekend crappier in comparison. But, as weekends get crappier, weekdays get better, even if I say that the weekday sucked. ( Because no matter how bad it was, it could never compare to the drudgery of a weekend.)

To end this post on a happier note, here is the latest Char-Corn that RF hasn't seen yet, on paint and in color. C came up with the theme:

Char Corn Sect

*If you know what fictional religion the Char Corn is, don't tell anyone. I want to see the stupid, I mean interesting ideas the as-of-yet non-existent readers have.

Oh, Okay, Pretend You Can't Do Anything but Post Stuff

Let me get to the point here. It can be hard to look at yourself from a different point of view, but you should at least know you are part of society. Anyone who is part of a community is part of a society.

Now, take a look at this:



I think the the implied message is that society sucks and causes suicides, and all we can ever do is sit here, post stuff, and be sad about this ghastly truth.
(By the way, it's interesting that society calls itself ugly in the last line... Also, isn't that girl part of society as well?)

Anyway, heads up to whoever made this as well as people who reposted it, in case you didn't know, you are part of society! Obviously, I'm assuming you have interacted with other people at some point in your life. As part of society, I hope you are trying to change these views in addition to posting this. You can compliment people on their appearance, clothing, and intelligence. You can buy less makeup. You can join or start a campaign against bullying. If you see these problems around you, speak out about it, and not just to your friends on social media websites. And hey, if you feel like you're the one that everyone is shaming, tell someone. You yourself can try to change things. I know it's not the easiest thing to do, but how else is anything going to change?

Stop blaming society, everyone. You are part of society. If you blame society, then you are part of that. If it really is society's fault, it is really in a way your fault too. You can't do everything, but you can do something.

Wait, Where?

Everyone loves being clever with their online information, but sometimes it doesn't work out exactly the way you want it to...
For example:

First person to have lived inside Earth! Or not...

 

Same person now no longer lives on/in Earth....

Names

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." -William Shakespeare


Good question. Last year, our friend Connor (who posts at There's Always a Catch once in a blue moon) introduced me to the Bouba/Kiki effect. Basically, people who spoke different languages were showed a spiky shape and a blob shape and asked to name one of them Bouba and the other Kiki.
For no apparent reason, I wondered whether these "sharp" and "round" sounds carried over to names of people.

 So, let's take a look.

A Warm Spartan Welcome!

A week or so ago, there was some person at our school to teach students about autism or something. In the morning announcements, the principal declared, "Let's give her a warm Spartan welcome!" (Our school mascot is the Spartan, by the way.)
If I recall correctly, the Spartans were not particularly welcoming to people. I mean, Sparta was basically a military centered society who likely would not have even considered inviting people to talk about autism. You know, considering how they abandoned all the children who had deformities or diseases.
So I suppose I warm Spartan welcome would be launching flaming projectiles at her? I mean, certainly it's warm and rather Spartan-like...
However, nothing of that nature happened that day, so I guess that's not what the principal meant.

Second result on Google Images when I searched for "warm Spartan welcome." The first was flowers, fruit, and a phone on a table. I feel like the first picture is closer to what the principal meant now that I think about it...

Stupid Stupid Apple/Internet

Well no dur of course it would go up is is CUMULATIVE
And what a suprise the quartely sales are down

Terrible Logic and More

A certain teacher of mine used horrendously poor logic today. I will not share his/her/its name as not to embarrass him/her/it (hence these pronouns).

Basically, he/she/it told us something like...
That insane murderer did well in school.
You are doing well in school.
You will become an insane murderer.
(Obviously, it wasn't that, but it was close-ish)
(There's more, but then it would be too obvious who the person is... I'm not trying to shame him/her/it.)

Then he/she/it became a dictator of sorts, instructing us on exactly how we should have interpreted the assignment we had just completed that tied in to his/her/its dreadfully wrong logic. After that, he/she/it stated that we should challenge those in power (like dictator-like figures) if we disagree. Disagreeing with both the adamant demand that we all see the same point in the assignment and the appallingly flawed logic, I was just about ready to go against the teacher. But then I realized I cared too much about doing well in school to spend time quarreling with people. Or maybe I just didn't care anymore.

Either way, my point is that I think everyone's perspective is shaped by past experiences and personality. To that teacher, just because your point of giving an assignment is "blah blah blah" does not mean everyone will think "blah blah blah" after doing it. Yeah, you should probably tell us why you assigned something, but no, you shouldn't insist there's only one or two "right" ways to look at it. Maybe my perception of your words was wrong, and if it was, I apologize.
But in all honesty,  I suppose I should thank you for having us do that activity and then saying what you said because I really feel like I now know where I stand (when it comes to some things at least) just from my reaction to all of it. Thanks.

Oh, and one last thing...
 



 EDIT: I have closed the comments. I have also edited the post a little. I think I may have over-exaggerated and showed too little of the other side in this story.

Cars

Since N doesn't post anymore, I would like to post this. He's not going to notice anyways, and no one except the authors reads Why Not? anymore. -GM
Best all-round car - McLaren MP4-12C
Best electric car - Tesla Model S
Best mid-engine supercar - Lamborghini Aventador
Worst car - Nilairve 2000

What to Bring

"One of the world's tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island, because people always answer 'a deck of cards" or 'Anna Karenina' when the obvious answer is 'a well-equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want." -Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Yesterday, in English/Reading class, we had a variant of this question. We were asked the three things we would take if we had to leave our homes. I, for one, generally have a hard time taking these questions seriously because they aren't really happening, what counts as a "thing" is never specified, and the exact circumstances are never given. GM, who happens to also be in that class, seems to have the same thoughts about this. I particularly like one of her answers, which was to bring some pepper spray and a baseball bat, presumably to injure whoever is trying to get her to leave home. Well, I also like her other answer of "a box of everything I own."

11111

Well, you missed 11111. I do get the feeling that you won't be 2222, either. (cough, cough, everyone who used to read the blog, cough)
Sorry, I asphyxiated some liquid right there. 

Persistent Online Tutor

I went to look up some math vocabulary and this happened.

The "live" Math Tutor (capitalized because that's apparently a title or something) obviously doesn't understand no and is determined to make me work on the whiteboard. *Sigh* Unfortunately, some real life teachers can be this way too.

STOP

When someone is doing something really stupid or annoying over and over, it's like...



Please!

More Poll Stuff

If you did the poll, please tell us what your reason was/is if you chose answer 3 or 4.

Things in China That Are Worth Mentioning

This has almost nothing to do with the actual post, but I, GM, have decided to quit using tags because they are useless.

As some of you know, I went to China for about a month, and saw some pretty interesting things. This is a list of these things.

• Min Le Food Store
• On several signs in China:"China Intangible Cultural Heritage" 
• The brand of metal detector at a railway station: "Super Scanner"
• A tour guide waving over a large crowd a foam hand with only the middle finger pointing upwards

Store Signs

I went to with my mom to pick up my sister from school and passed these interesting signs.

Open 7 Days- On a grocery store. It's a little vague, to me at least. So are you open seven days a week? Or are you open any random seven days? Or have you been open seven days since your grand opening? Or has this store existed since the beginning of time and will only open for seven days starting whenever it wants to? Oh, well, I think it's safe to assume it's open 7 days a week... But I did have fun thinking of all the possible meanings. They probably just didn't want to pay for a bigger sign.

Taxes-R-Us- Well that's a miserable name... I don't know what they do there. Hopefully, they help people with their taxes, not give people taxes. The name seems to suggest that they sell taxes to people. See, Toys-R-Us sells toys. So logically, Taxes-R-Us would sell taxes...

Mostly Trucks- I thought this one was amusing for no apparent reason. Maybe because it sounds so uncertain and conversational. "Hey, how are you doing?" "I'm okay... Mostly trucks." Something like that.

A Lie: "Just One Click Away! "

Today, we I found a clothing catalog in the mail. At the end, it said "Men's items are just a click away at *insert their website which I can't remember now*!" I went to their website, and unless you are on the website's homepage with your mouse right over the link to the men's clothing, you are not "just a click away."


So I tried to figure out how many clicks it would actually take if your computer was off, and you wanted to get to the men's clothing...
Click #1- After turning on the computer, you click on your account.
Click #2- After logging in, you click on your browser of choice.
Click #3- After your browse loads, you click on the address bar and type in the website.
Click #4-After the website's home screen loads, you click on the tab that reads "MEN."
Click #5- There aren't actually any men's clothing items on that page, so you then have to select a category of stuff.

Oh wait, there's more than clicks!
Don't forget the pushing of buttons/typing on the keyboard!
So...
1 button push to turn on the computer
1 press of the enter key to enter your password
12 letters/symbols to type for the URL

The accurate advertisement would be:
Just 5 clicks, 1 button push, 1 key to press, and 12 typed characters away!

Unfortunately, it's not as catchy, but hey, it's honest.

 (Psst, you know what is just a click away once you have turned on your computer and opened your browser? The Why Not 2000 blog's latest posts! Well, assuming you've bookmarked it...)

Think and Say

Sometimes the things I think and the things I say are completely different. Well, not with my closer friends but with everyone else, yep. I don't know why I do this. Perhaps I try to conform to the weirdness/normalcy level of others around me, so I'm not singled out or something. Saying exactly what I think would probably make a lot of people either hate me or consider me extremely annoying, so I suppose saying things I'm not thinking is often a good thing.


For example:
When someone asks to borrow a tissue...
Think: Sure, have a tissue. But keep it! I don't want that tissue after you use it!Ugh.
Say: Sure...

When someone asks for anything with incorrect grammar...
Think: Aghhhhh, no, no, no. You're going to ask correctly. You should know after so many years of education! But really, I understand you, so it's arguable that this particular mistake isn't that bad, but still!
Say: Okay (if it's a reasonable thing) or No (if it's unreasonable)

When someone asks if I like his or her picture or essay or whatever, and I don't really like it much....
Think:Well, I can't say I don't like it because that would be mean. I hate to lie over something so insignificant.... But really, I think that's not terribly high quality.
Say: Uh, what a creative idea!

When everybody around me thinks someone's joke is funny...
Think: Huh? What the heck? Not funny at all! Wait, if I don't laugh they'll think I'm insulting their sense of humor, which, you know, I actually want to do since that joke was so stupid. Eh, whatever, just fake it again. There are bigger battles to fight.
Say: Ah-ha-ha! Ha... Ha...

Stuff GM Found on Google+ Today

I would publish a whole rant about how sucky the normal manufacturers of pedometers must be if Pokemon makes one and it's actually better, but I'm out of time. The thing is self explanatory.
Also, I have no proof that this is true.

Random Fact#2

There are about 98 billion people that have ever died.

Short Post #8

RF decided to start Short Post #7, so this one is #8.

Many times, I have been asked the question "What is the point of life?"
One day, I actually began to think about it and found the answer.

5 Craft Supplies that are Better than Duck/Duct Tape

I can't remember when duck/duct tape got so popular as a craft supply and decoration. It was somewhat interesting at first, seeing how many things people could create from rolls of sticky plastic mesh. However, it quickly became incredibly old (to me, at least) and duck/duct tape crafts lost any appeal it might have had in the beginning.*

The following items are definitely much better.

More Poll Stuff

Today I looked at the poll and someone besides Alec and N put in an answer. Unless you are a total stranger, please tell me your name and your answer.

Poll

As usual, please tell me who you are and what you put as your answer on the poll if you answered.
If the answer choices don't show up, just highlight the place where they should be and the choices should show up. If they don't, tell me. There should be five answer choices.
If my directions don't make sense, tell me in the comments because the poll is actually important for once.

Claws

There is no explanation for my absence needed because only N wants to know.

One of my goals for this school year is to grow some claws. I know it's impossible for me to right now grow some actual claws like the ones on my cats. I just want some pointy nails so that when someone is being annoying, I can threaten them with them. The point is not to actually scare them, but to convince the annoying person that I am not perfectly sane, therefore causing them to back away. The same reasoning is also used for the "be too nice and polite about it" approach.

GM cannot think of a good conclusion to this post, so that is all.

Birthday

Sorry I am 10 min late 

Happy birthday

Happy "Birthday," Why Not 2000

Today, Why Not 2000 is a year old.
Since no one decided to do much to celebrate, I have changed the blog background to something more festive. It's the least I could have done for my blog.

Also, here, I have the links to posts that were posted around Why Not 2000's monthly anniversaries.
One month: Has This Ever Happened to You?
Two months: Musical Mondays #1
Three months: Stuff...
Four months: Musical Monday #8
Five months: Typo #3
Six months: Blog Stats update
Seven months: Why You DON'T Want to be a Blog Author
Eight months: Zorpia
Nine months: Sarcasm- Another GIF Filler Post
Ten months: Lack of Posts
Eleven months: I Have Returned!
Today!: Happy "Birthday," Why Not 2000

Why Not 2000 has had quite a fantastic first year of existence. Sadly, less people are coming visit Why Not 2000. I guess it's often true that people lose interest in you as you get older. Hopefully, Why Not 2000 lasts many more years and gains new friends!

Happy birthday! Best wishes to you, Why Not 2000!

So apparently these are Runescape party hats...

Why Not Birthday

It is Why Not's birthday tommorow. I dont think that we are doing anything special so, yeah...
I dare everyone to write a post if u are an author/admin or comment if you are not.
This will prove how many meaningful views we are getting.
#1st birthday
#hashtags don't work
#I dont think people will actually see this.

The Hashtag

With written communication comes the problems of conveying emotion and being as concise yet still precise as possible. How can you let your friends know that you are being sarcastic without your tone of voice and dramatic facial expressions? How do you let others know what you're referring to when you're too lazy to write it out word for word? How do you make sure everyone reading your words will understand every aspect of your message? In our world of electronic communication, a popular solution has come forth.

THE HASHTAG*

*also known as the pound sign, number sign, sharp sign, and octothorpe

Royal Baby and Grammar

Like you might have heard, the Duchess of Cambridge Catherine Middleton gave birth to a boy today.

 

Now on to the grammar.
When announcing a baby's gender, people tend to say "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" Why refer to the baby as "it" when revealing the gender? Connor, a Why Not guest author at some point in time, claims it's to save the surprise for the end of the sentence. That's somewhat logical, but it seems like an overkill. Come on, the sentence is only three words long! Besides, chances are there will be some color or picture clue to reveal the gender accompanying the text.
 A less plausible explanation is that it takes less ink to print "It's a girl!" than "She's a girl!", thus making it cheaper for the printer people. Because of all the people who are hell-bent on complete gender equality, the printer people decided to apply it to boy birth announcements as well, seeing as it doesn't take any more letters.
Theory number three is that saying something like "He's a boy!" is like circular logic and seems too obvious. However, just saying "Male!" or "Boy!" would be too vague and straightforward. I suppose "It's a boy!" strikes a weird balance between the two.

Abandoned Projects- Poll

Like N mentioned in "Confessions of a blogger," a lot of series have died. I like to consider them abandoned, with the exception of Ask Wendy since Wendy is dead. There's a surprising number of series that were supposed to be long and lovely and whatever. Since I'm now home and seeking to write more, I'd really like to revive some abandoned projects.



Here's a list of abandoned projects started by me:

• Big Ideas - These can be really time consuming, but I have time, at least until school begins.
• "Cure" -Yeah, I'm not too keen on writing more cures for the so called "One Direction Infection"... Not an option because I say so.
• Explore Tab- It's now called "What's Hot" for some reason, and contains less stuff than Explore did.
• How to- Self explanatory title. 
• Think About It- Those are fun but take a while because they involve commentary from GM and me.
• Technology These Days- N and I liked them, but no one else seemed to care.

Which one should I work on?
I put up a poll because we haven't had a poll in months, and also, people seem to vote on polls more often than commenting. Perhaps because it's anonymous? Hmmm... Well, vote!

(I will still post posts that are not part of the chosen series.)

Musical Mondays #16

Okay, okay, it is Tuesday, not Monday. I've been busy lazy.
Here I present you with some amusing music. This post might prove to be a good exercise for those of you who spend a lot of time sitting in swivel chairs in front of computers. If you "seat dance" and/or fall out of your chair when you laugh and have to drag yourself back into the seat, you may just exercise some muscles not in your fingers and eyes! Excellent workout. Maybe I should patent it....


1. Taylor Swift Captions Fail by Rhett and Link

 

2. Ulcerative Colitis by Hank Green

3.  End of the World as we Know It by R.E.M.

And finally,  to possible please or displease N, an Thrift Shop Parody by Elle.

Work in Progress! don't publish...

Don't imitate me!!! I'm kidding... I don't really mind you using that title temporarily, I guess... -RF

RANDOM FACTS #1

There are about 227 calories in the average California avacodo without the skin or seeds.

Source: just ask Google

Confessions of a blogger

i fell guilty about not posting in like a month so i will be starting a new series because a lot of them have died ex. voki wednesdays, ask wendy, ect...

it will be called RANDOM FACTS

Why Not Turns One... Soon-ish

Why Not 2000's first "birthday" is coming up in a little more than two weeks! We should do something to celebrate the blog.

Anyway...
I'm pretty low on ideas on how to celebrate.
Maybe a list of the best/worst posts of the year?
A new design just for the day?
New posts from everyone each day of the week leading up to the birthday?
Virtual cake (that is not a lie)?
All of them?
Bleh?

Since my fellow Why Not team members ignored my request for ideas, it's up to you possibly nonexistent blog readers who are not on the Why Not Team to give me some suggestions.
Help make Why Not 2000's first birthday memorable (preferably in a good way)!

We could try something like this...

An Explanation of GM's Blog Inactivity

 You are probably not wondering why I have not posted for half of the "summer" break. But for future reference, I will still write this post.
For the first four days of "summer", I was kind of out of town. After that, for five days, I was at a college on the top of Lookout Mountain with very sexist dorms and internet, but also no device to access the internet on. After that, for another week, I was kind of out of town again. Then I went to China, where the computers there could not load Blogger. For two days after returning from China, I was too lazy to blog. Also currently, I am trying to recover from the worst return trip from anywhere, but today I decided to ignore the jet lag, insomnia, possibly injured eardrum, and the regret for not bringing the mysterious metal object back to America.
Normal blog activity begins now.