Radomness for your entertainment

This was really funny to me for some reason. Maybe because I have always wondered what this means. It's really not that funny. But I like it.

"Homogenize" is really a very useful word. We may not know what it means, though it doubtless means something very definite, correct, and (we must add) sanitary, or something like that--scientific, maybe. Neverthless, "homogenized" is good advertising, for advertising uses words not for what they represent, but for what they do. And, after all, there is no dishonesty here, because the milk really is homogenized, you know. But whether people really know what it means is immaterial, almost entirely beside the point. If it makes them buy the milk, that is all it is supposed to do--and who are we to reason why?

- Walter J. Ong in Words and the Wise

Reasons I do not like ebooks:

1. The books cannot be printed nor copied. Therefore, I cannot highlight or take notes in the margins.
2. "Checkout" time is like 15 minutes... I have to re-search for the book and find my place again every time I come back to it. (Haha... re-search for my research.)
3. It takes a whole lot longer for a page to load on the computer than it does to turn an actual page.
4. Computers hurt my eyes. Therefore, ebooks hurt my eyes.

5. It doesn't smell like a book. It reeks of... technology.

6. Ebooks are evil.

7. I do not get a workout by lugging them around.

8. Ebooks make me dependent on electricity. What if the electricity goes out?

9. I cannot flip through pages.

10. Ebooks are vile and deceitful. Yes. deceitful.

11. They cause me to become angry and waste research time so I can go write a blog about how I hate Ebooks. Now my checkout time has expired... again.

I wish I could think of a punny title

Has anyone ever noticed that when someone says, "No pun intended," the pun is almost always intended?

here ya go kate.

I vote emma watson. See?

It's Kate.

Here's another one for me, too. Maybe Dakota Fanning? I dunno.

Picnik!

So check out this way awesome site... it is my new favorite thing to do when I am bored. It's super easy to use, and you can do some really cool stuff with photo editing. Lately I have been editing a picture from every country I went to this summer. Here's some of the ones I have come up with:

Pretty fun, right? Now, GO. Check it out. You shall enjoy it. Or else.

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

Ok, so it is apparently "Doppelganger week" on facebook, which means you are supposed to post a picture of a celebrity that people say you look like. Everyone tells me I look like this creep:

I've always thought she looks super scary. But everyone says, "Oh, that's just because she looks scary as the white witch. It's a compliment to be told you look like her." But oh, no.... i looked up normal pictures of her and she looks even creepier.

Why doesn't the lady wear eye makeup? And what's with the strange hairdo she always has? I refuse to believe that I share any commonalities with this woman. Please do not tell me that I do. So, I did a celebrity face match on myheritage.com to find a more satisfactory match. I don't really look like any of them, but they make me feel better. Notice that Tilda Swinton didn't even come up on this collage. YES!

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

ps- can anyone tell me how to use a different template than the ones offered by blogger?

evil.

So my stomach got into a fight with a meatball sub sandwich today. The sub was being all sassy and what not, so gobbled it down, silencing its annoying protests and rude comments. but the sub did not appreciate its time out in my tummy, so it fought back. I finally threw up the insubordinate sub. Yucky.

So I was trying to figure out what could have caused this fight... the deeper reasons. Maybe the sub was just having a bad day. But, oh, no. I suspect treachery of the worst kind was involved. That's right. Poison. Poisonous berries, that is. I went to the park today with some Kate, Heather, and Catie today, and we got into a berry fight. These innocent looking berries were ideal for throwing... bb sized purple balls that got really annoying to those being attacked. In the midst of the berry war, my hands got purple juice all over them. I didn't think much of it. I trusted that those berries were simply harmless plants for our entertainment. Boy, was I wrong.

I washed my hands of the juice when I got home, but I suspect that my steering wheel had traces of berry left on it. So, my meatball sub was likely swallowed down with traces of berry juice that were picked up by my hands. Maybe that's a stretch, but that's all I can figure.

I asked the expert of such matters, Heather Cummins, Botany Extraordinaire, and she informed me that this plant was likely a "privet." Upon looking it up, I found the following info: "Privet (Ligustrum)- Ingesting any part of these poisonous plants may cause stomach ache, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, or headache. Eating the berries of privet shrubs may even cause death." If this is indeed the culprit, I am apparently very sensitive to it. Another site I found said you usually have to eat like 12 berries for the poison to effect you.

Kate, from now on I will listen more seriously to your warnings about caution with plants.

Well, I am feeling better now. But I still don't like meatball subs and choose from this day forward not to eat one again.