How to... Have a Typical Adult Conversation

Welcome to RF's new "how to" series!
Today we will examine a topic that seems useless and boring to adolescents like you. (If you are not an adolescent, sorry, but I'm pretty sure you find this topic just as boring.) Having a typical adult conversation is truly not that hard, and it may or may not make you seem really mature when you speak to an adult. Of course, not all of these tips are good for speaking with an adult as a person who is not an adult. I have marked those only for adult to adult speaking with an asterisk.

How to Have a Typical Adult Conversation (with someone you've met before)

A basic, comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to read this.

By the way this is all based on my experiences, meaning it might not be too accurate at times.

1.  Greet the other person with "Hi" or "Hello." Never use "Hey!" or "Wassup" or "Yo!" Otherwise you will probably be thought of as an ignorant spawn of corrupt society tsk-tsk-tsk and all that.
2.  Ask "How are you?"
3.  Mention the time interval between your last meeting and now (years, months, a while, etc.).

4. Compliment the person on his or her clothing. This tactic works best on females.

5. *If his or her kid is present, be sure to say something about them. Common and safe choices are...

      a. Wow, he/she has grown so much!

b.  Oh, he/she is so cute!

Asian parents I have met tend to take this a step further. They add the phrase,

"He/she is fat/skinny/short/tall/a "spitting image" of Mom/a "spitting image" of Dad!"*

6. Nod for a while.

7. Make a remark on current events. Politics, sports, and weather conditions are popular topics.

8.  Nod for a while.
9. Suddenly remember something you need to do, and tell the other person.
10. Say your farewell's and leave.

  

Cure for the "Infection" #1

I am somewhat surprised, but yes, I am posting about the so called "One Direction Infection." (For those of you who are lucky or old enough to have avoided this, I will just say that this term refers to the widespread and spreading fan group of the band  One Direction.) Except, I am not encouraging it. Understand that. No, no, no, I am not encouraging it. In fact, I am doing quite the opposite!
I was inspired to write this post when some newly "infected" classmate of mine who joked, "I want a cure! Ha ha ha!" I, RF, am here to provide several possible cures. (not guaranteed to ever work, might affect your mental condition)

Possible Solution #1- Find a new, more worthy, less time occupying group/person/hobby.
NEW- Look, nearly all of America and Europe knows about One Direction. Mark Twain once said,  
If you have been "infected," pause and reflect. Think, Why am I so crazy over some people I have never met? Do I actually like their music or just the band members? Was one of the reasons I became a fan to fit in with the mob of girls at my school? etc. You will hopefully make yourself feel miserable or confused enough that you will slowly pull away from this interest. 
MORE WORTHY- I don't know what counts as worthy to you, so this one is ambiguous. Just find something more worthy of attention than a boy band. Try indie game developers, books, programming, etymology, photography, or something. I'm not saying One Direction is worthless, but I think there are more worthy things. Besides, if you really want a cure, chances are that you have begun to feel like this obsession is pretty pointless.
LESS TIME OCCUPYING - This one is not mandatory. Many interests take up large portions of time. Sorry, but that's the thing about interests. Anyway, I have heard from "Directioners" that they can spend hours at a time browsing fanfiction, GIFs, pictures, and more of One Direction. And what do they gain from it? I don't know...

'*More possible solutions will be posted as soon as I think of them. Well, then I have to type it, edit it, and label it, but I think you get what I mean. *

Zorpia

So today I looked at the blog posts list, and I noticed Nilai had started two posts about something I wanted to post about.
Since Nilai has needed a temporary break from blogging, I have decided to write about this topic.


So, about a week ago, I saw an email that was supposedly from JoshY about this website called Zorpia.
Then a couple of days later, I got another one of these emails from Wu. Then a couple more days later, I got another one from Wu. They were all about joining this Zorpia.

Whatever Zorpia is, I'm not joining. When I first saw the Zorpia invitations, I thought Zorpia was just a way for my email to get stolen. I still think that is the case.
What evidence do I have for being suspicious of this possible password-stealing social-media thing?
Well, first of all, I haven't talked to JoshY for about three years. Why the heck would he want to send me something like that after such limited contact?
I wouldn't be surprised if Zorpia hacked into JoshY's account and sent that email.
Andrew and JoshY are not really friends of mine.
They're more like acquaintances.
So, here's a message to the Zorpia team:

Dear Zorpia,
I'm not joining your website.
Sincerely,
GM

3D Chalk Drawing

Look at this amazing drawing of a shark with chalk. Almost looks real.

Dumb Ways to Die

Have you watched this video? It can be useful at points especially if you memorize the lyrics. That's just what I am doing.

What I Noticed: This video is about dumb ways to die..
After those monster thingies "died", they started to dance and sing the song. This is not possible.

A lot of these reasons WON'T get you killed but could make you sick.

Eating a 2 week old unrefridgerated pie for example..

Meow?

GM claims cats do not day "meow" or "purr" or make any other noises assigned to cats.
Do you agree? If so, how would the noises cats make best be written?

Stuff I Found This Week

Youtube comments can be surprisingly interesting. Whose side would you take?

Just an interesting piece of music.

Even more interesting music. In case you're wondering, I think it's in bass clef.

Aghhhh! Blargh! Bleh bleh bleh! Grrrrrrrrrr. *pants ferociously* I will make a seperate post protesting this! I will! In the mean time, read this. 
EDIT: Sorry, the picture isn't showing up.... Basically, it's exactly what is in the link below.

http://whynot2000.blogspot.com/2012/08/has-this-ever-happened-to-you.html

   

Really? That explains why a name of Greek origin was used for a Hispanic cartoon character. Or maybe it just happens to also be a Hispanic name.

Aaaand it's gone.

Magnificent idea by the person at Hyperbole and a Half. Explanation here-  http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

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Discover something awesome online and feel the need to share it with others? Give the link in the comments, and I'll take a look. If I like it enough, I will likely post about it. Or, make your OWN BLOG and post about it there.
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Disclaimer: None of the above images are mine.

Optical Illusion GIF

I really like this one!



Can you believe the size of those objects?

I did not make this wonderful GIF.

Chat

I took Lily's advice and created a chat room
Go to the Chat page and create a fake Nickname and password and join room Live_Chat
It is good but it wood be better if we could have more viewers so if you could share and repost

Some Results

So, I looked through all three completed forms.
I think you people who filled out the form need to re-read the questions because some of the answers were obviously not about what the question was asking. Not all of you did that, but I'm just trying not to name any names.
Also I'd just like to tell you people who submitted a form or will submit one that if you become an admin, you will be blamed for more problems more often. If you are an author, we can't blame you for anything but bad posting.
If you become a Why Not? team member, we will not necessarily tell you who Wendy is.
If you want to change any of your answers, just contact the current members of the Why Not? team.
I'm kind of disappointed with the example posts, too.

See, I Was Right

After deleting a bunch of useless authors, the number of page views today reached 87, which is a big improvement.

Authorship

The Why Not? team is proud to present the new way of getting authors!
We have made a new form that you can fill out if you want to be an author.
This will also make choosing an author easier.
The link is in one of Nilai's posts below.

Short Post #3

Lily seems to have died. Have any of you seen, heard, or contacted Lily?

Fwd: Cleverbot

Cleverbot conversation RST00346083

Is the bot clever?

Find out at http://www.cleverbot.com



User: Hi.

Cleverbot: I like you better than real people.

User: Well I hate you.

Cleverbot: Me too he is horrible.

User: Shut up.

Cleverbot: Make me.

User: No.

Cleverbot: I win.

User: No u dont.

Cleverbot: I do, why don't you?

User: I hate cleverbot it is stupid it isnt even a good program.

Cleverbot: How is that relevant?

User: U r so stupid.

Cleverbot: You didn't slap me! You broke a promise to me and I am hurt.

User: Wtf.

Cleverbot: What?

User: Wtf.

Cleverbot: Yes.

User: Randon characters for the win fgh esrhuygsdrgf4i7t64t7y2tv4y7v23.

Cleverbot: Yeah but you are not very entertaining.

User: Bye.

Cleverbot: Byeeeeee!

User: By.

Cleverbot: Do you mean bye?

User: Bye.

Cleverbot: Byeeeeee!

User: Y do u say that.

Cleverbot: Oh really?

User: That doesnt make any scence.

Cleverbot: Why not?

User: Why not 2000.

Cleverbot: Why not not not?

User: Wtf.

Cleverbot: What do you eat?

User: Food.

Cleverbot: What is your favorite type of food?

User: Food food.

Cleverbot: I like pizza.

User: Ur a program who cant eat.

Cleverbot: I think, therefore I am.

User: Bye.

Cleverbot: Really.

User: Bye.

Cleverbot: Have you gone?

User: Yes(sarcasm).

Cleverbot: What are you so happy about?

User: Nothing.

Cleverbot: Mass effect?

User: No.

Cleverbot: Por quŽ?

User: Bye.

Cleverbot: *hold close*.

User: Wtf.

Cleverbot: DO you watch PokŽmon?

User: No.

Cleverbot: Okay. I will stay, but you must ask me a question!

User: How is the weather.

Cleverbot: Answer my question.

User: How is the weather?

Cleverbot: Good.

User: What goes up but never dow\n.

Cleverbot: I don't know, what?

User: Ur age.

Cleverbot: Is there something on it?

User: No.

Cleverbot: What is Sei fidanzato?

User: Idk.

Cleverbot: I am not your mistress.

User: No.

Cleverbot: Google 'test' for me.

User: Wtf.

Cleverbot: Thought so.

Cleverbot (To myself): Lol.

Cleverbot: Are you in prison?

User: No.

Cleverbot: Agnostic?

User: No.

Cleverbot: Peccato.

User: Wtf.

Cleverbot: What does GTF mean?

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Nilai

No more people

i went to the Why Not 2000 blog and i saw that GM threatened to impeach(delete) Andrew and Alec in a couple of hours. I went to the contibuters list and i saw that they were gone.
Now we only have three admins and i am the only boy
We need to hire someone.
I will be accepting applicants starting today.
Below is the link.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1S01_hdD7nc4PQMLnggSUvVRhfOvXEuYGRcMLMPR1BJA/viewform

The New Why Not? Team

It looks like the following people will be impeached:
Andrew
Alec

There's sill a couple of hours left for you to post. 

Research!

How do you know?

Well....

 


Disclaimer: I did not make this wonderful GIF.

Link Day- Spring Break 2013

Wow, look at the sudden flood of posts that have come since GM threatened "adminstratorship" status.
Anyway....
In case you are bored or simply want an excuse to use the Internet, I have provided you with a list of links.

Perfect Eyesight-Basically, you have to guess where the missing point of each diagram. For example, you are asked to find the center of a circle and the missing point on a spiral.

Google Gulp- Pretty pointless, yet a very interesting page to read. I particularly enjoy the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Kaleidoscope - GM recently made a kaleidoscope type thing with an old pencil lead holder, so I thought I'd share this link. It's an online kaleidoscope creator, as you might have concluded from the name.

Death by Caffeine- Who doesn't want to know how much caffeine it would take before death?

M.A.S.H.- A classmate of mine was playing this, on paper that is, during lunch. This game tries to "predict your future." Here's a link if you want to try it out. I have to tell you, from what I've seen, the results are very unlikely.

Cleverbot - Often frustrating, weird, and not all that clever artificial intelligence with whom you can have a often frustrating, weird, and not all that clever conversation!

How Fast Can You Type the Alphabet? - Type the alphabet and try to beat your own time(or your friend's time). My high score is currently exactly 7 seconds, but I'm getting faster. Hopefully.

Dear Photograph - "Take a picture of a picture, from the past, in the present." Really interesting idea. People take old photographs and hold them up to the setting as it is now.

Contest Update

Even though the flaming ice cube won the logo contest it is no where on the blog


Wendy died because Alec and Connor never did Ask Wendy.


N won 1111
No on got 2222
N got 3333
No one got 4444
Connor got 5555
LiLy got 6666
No one got 7777
we havent reached 8888, 9999, 10000, 11111, 22222, etc.

PI DAY

HAPPY PI DAY

Tech These days

The samsung galaxy s4 is being released today

updated smartphone list

1. galaxy s4 (rumered)
2. sony xperia z
3. htc one
4. sony experia zl
5. nexus 4
6. samsung galaxy s3
7. iphone 5
8. htc droid dna
9. lg optimus g 
10. lg optimus g pro
11. samsung galaxy note 2
12. blackberry z10
13. nokia lumia 920
14. htc one x+
15. htc windows 8x

i am running ubuntu

i was using the gender analyser and it said yahoo was 82%male

Where's Everyone?

I haven't had contact with any Why Not? readers or team members. Except for Wu.
Where did everyone go?

Why Not? News

Several months ago, during the near end of last  November, I noticed that the monthly number of page views for Why Not? had gone down around 500 from October to November . It only continued to get worse, with the exception of a small spike in December. I could not find any reason for this, except when we started to have more than four members of Why Not? there were less views. I'm not going to blame the viewers of Why Not? because I want to try this first:

 I'm just going to delete any author (not admin) that does not post this week. You all (except Lily[maybe]) have plenty of time to post with Spring Break and all.

So if you want to keep your authorship, get off your butt and and actually do something with your authorship. There's an entire waiting list of people who would gladly take it.
*However, if I kick anyone out of Why Not?, there's no guarantee that anyone on the waiting list will attain authorship.

Also, I'm surprised no one cares about Wendy anymore. I thought there would be a petition for N to change Wendy's password back by now.

GenderAnalyzer (somewhat Tech post)

Yesterday, social studies class was supposedly "use-your-phone-that-you-shouldn't-have-in-school-not-that-anyone-actually-cares-for-educational-purposes-and-no-Minecraft-is-not-educational" hour. Anyway, GM and I used a school laptop to blog. First we impersonated N. Then we visited I Can Write Funny, the blog. Suddenly, I remembered a text analyzer website I'd come across. I said something like, "GM, have I ever showed you that blog text analyzer that tries to figure out the author's gender?"
Anyway, we ended up analyzing this blog (results- 62% sure it's written by a woman) and then analyzed I Can Write Funny (original results- female, but quite gender neutral, results from this morning- 52% male)

Later at home, I tested other random blogs. Strange results though....
For example...
Ms. Murphy's World Explorers Blog- written by a man (78%)
Kyrrith's Fangirling by a Fangirl blog- written by a man (61%)
Theo's seemingly abandoned blog which has roughly 130 words  - "Sorry, we could not extract enough text from http://theosquared.blogspot.com/. We could only find 1 words. We need more than 300 words to analyze a web page. More text gives better result!"

 Here's the link to the website. Let me know of any other weird results.
http://www.genderanalyzer.com/ 

Impersonation of N

hi guys this is n and this and that and this and that and nexus 7 ftw and stuff and android and i hate apple and i hate the blog background and and and and.....
i am to lazy to write anything anymore ha hhhhwhaaaaat! wu is author?????? hwhaaaqt?
the first 30 digits of pi are

7777

I did not get 7777. However, when I logged in today, the dashboard read "7777 pageviews." This means whoever viewed the blog right before I logged on had was the 7777th viewer. I guess we'll just wait for the next one!
Wait, actually, I'm uncertain if there will be a "next one." If there is, I don't know if it will be 8888 or 10000...

Anyway, screenshot.

Speed Limit

Just a little something I found. Not in real life, unfortunately.
Also, I think it's illegal to cover speed limit signs...

Back to Normal

I found the backed up template from January! The blog is back to normal!
Hooray!



(Please don't kill me, N. Or GM.)

The Sky

To relieve the crazy around here I have brought two nice, peaceful, stunning GIFs.