Monday, December 8, 2008

&, ;, and Etc.

hello all, tonight I am going to share my thoughts on ampersands, semi-colons, and "Etc." first of course is ampersands (&) i believe that these are incredibly underused in modern writing, they are perfect symbols as a replacement for that troublesome word "and" and when they are the backwards 3 type ones they look totally badass (the other ones arnt as good and honestly who writes well enough to do all those swirls???). another aspect i enjoy is that the name is totally badass "ampersand" doesnt that sound cool? say it to urself "ampersand" its so awesum... the next is semi-colons i have mixed feelings about this symbol on one hand i like it because it (like the ampersand) looks awesome. however its not right that such an underused symbol is necesarry in proper grammar i think that one way of fixing this would be demanding that all bylines contain a semi-colon rather than a colon. and now comes "Etc." i personally only use this word on profiles when listing favourite music and such but occasianally it will come up in essays. this is a decent word i like how simple it makes things to list, and i like the sound of the full word when said "etcetera" it sounds nice however the spelling is all wonky it should be spelled more like this: qexteceterah (see its much cooler) apart from my spelling i honestly dont think this word should be able to be spelled (i mean who writes out etcetera???) well thus concludes my blog post may it bring much joy to my 3 or so readers

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Rambling at 3 A.M.

Hello all, most readers out there know me, so there is not much to tell about myself. It's now 3 AM and I figure the point of blogs is to ramble which I enjoy very much so thats what im going to do. Seeing as it is 3 AM this is probably going to be very incoherent to anyone outside of my mind so please bear with me as I explain my views on bowling, barbershop quartets, and of course telling my friend (who doesnt read this) to stop jumping off of a shed. First on the list, bowling; this is a sport in which i thoroghly enjoy seeing as it requires little physical effort or concentration, my main objection to this sport is the price. whenever i go to a bowlerama i notice that me and my large group of friends are out at least 50 bucks (100 at some times) this is terrible seeing as none of my friends have any money except my ex-gf who has a job (well i have a job but i havnt worked in a few weeks so i dunno if it counts) i think the only solution to this problem is to open a bowlerama  which is a perfect segway (hahahahaha... segway) into my second topic i will fund this with money that i earn as a barbershop quartet with me, dave, vaughan, and brendan we plan on doing mostly journey covers and if my expextations are correct we should get about 20 bucks from everyone on the street. now that that topic is old i will move onto the last one. it has come to my attention a few months ago that one of my close friends jumps of the roof of her 5 ft. tall shed *cough* chelsea *cough* she really need to stop this as she IMs me at least once a week (though we havnt talked recently)telling me she hurt her knee or some nonsense jumping of a roof but as the weather gets colder i think that these shenanigens will stop.