So I have two more weeks left in my first semester of college...needless to say I cant believe it went by this quickly. I did have a blast though. Considering all of my classes were extremely easy, i didnt have that many difficulties with my classes which left the weekends for me to go visit my friends at their colleges and such.
When I signed up for my classes I really didnt think much of CSI 112. When i chose it I had what i needed to transfer to college park on my mind. CSI 112 just so happened to be one of those courses. Coming into the class I was already well acquainted with all four microsoft office tools. so i really didnt have many expectations.
The one computer concept that I learned most about though was cloud computting. Before this class I had never even heard of the concept cloud computting. Now I find it quite interesting and valuable to have your information, documents, everything thats on your computer on the internet. It will end up being quite useful that way if you need anything specific no matter where you are you will be able to grab it down from the "clouds". haha
To tell you the truth I dont think I really learned anything new about any of the office applications that we used in the class. I had been introduced and had already used word, excel, access and powerpoint previously. I actually took a class my freshmen year of highschool that worked with the same kind of textbook and everything but microsoft 2003 version instead of 2007. So I can honestly say that it was pretty much the same highschool class all over again.
I feel like I probably benefitted from the consistant schedule that we had the most. With having lecture on mondays and then lab on wednesday I got into the groove of splitting my time between assignments and labs. Even though I always had my assignments done ahead of time for the most part it was still extremely benefical to know that assignments were always due mondays and labs by the end of class wednesday and using angel kept me extremely organized.
Considering you will be listening to this Prof Aclin, I would just like to say thank you for this past semester I had fun in your class and you were an amazing teacher. Thank you for being so organized and understanding i wish all my professors were like you. :)
26 November, 2010
21 November, 2010
Do you work harder when someone is watching you?
This is gonna be one of the last if not the last post dealing with an assignment from my computer class. *sad face* So for this assignment i decided to choose to comment on the proposal that employees work harder when they know that they are being observed by their managers/bosses/owners, etc. I do think this is a logical thing to notice and it could very well be true. And that is why i chose it.
I feel like this a very good proposal because i do think that people will work harder if they are being watched. People would fear that if they dont show their best effort while being watched then they may jeopardize their job and may then lose it due to their lack of working. Even though people should work hard when they are being watched or not because they never know when they may be watching you without notifying you about it. So say they are secretly watching you and you slack off like you would when they arent watching and they will see exactly how well you do work and you just may lose your job for your lack of work ethic.
i learned about the Hawthorne Effect in my sociology class and i think it is very believable. When people know they are being watched they will do all that they can do dealing with any situation, whether it be good or bad, to the best of their ability. They would try extra hard to impress the observers so they can prove to them that they are worthy of the job. So I do indeed agree with the research done.
I feel like observing employees as they work is very ethical. You are paying someone to complete a certain set of jobs and to do them well. The administration of the company has every right to observe and make sure that such is being done to complete all jobs needed and they are completed correctly. So yes indeed it is ethical because the company has to protect itself and make sure that no employee is trying to cheat it. But this observing the employees may make them paranoid and make them feel like they cant be trusted which may cause some friction between the employees and the administration.
Even though when obsevation is being done productivity increases , I do not think that is a good technique to use to gather data for a system study. I think this because you arent getting actually data on how they work in a regular environment. The only way it would work so efficient data could be collected would be if the employees did not know they were being watched so that way you can see them work in their regular enviroment and see if the productivity is more or less or even the same that is seen when being observed.
And this i believe just may bring us to the end of entries for my wonderful computer class since we are nearing the semester end. Now i must return to watching the redskins and the titans battle for the win. hope you guys are having a good weekend and i hope you guys have a very nice thanksgiving holiday. I dont know about you but i have a lot to be thankful for and i get to spend this thanksgiving with my family for the first time in my 18 years and 11months of living. needless to say im quite excited :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! =D
I feel like this a very good proposal because i do think that people will work harder if they are being watched. People would fear that if they dont show their best effort while being watched then they may jeopardize their job and may then lose it due to their lack of working. Even though people should work hard when they are being watched or not because they never know when they may be watching you without notifying you about it. So say they are secretly watching you and you slack off like you would when they arent watching and they will see exactly how well you do work and you just may lose your job for your lack of work ethic.
i learned about the Hawthorne Effect in my sociology class and i think it is very believable. When people know they are being watched they will do all that they can do dealing with any situation, whether it be good or bad, to the best of their ability. They would try extra hard to impress the observers so they can prove to them that they are worthy of the job. So I do indeed agree with the research done.
I feel like observing employees as they work is very ethical. You are paying someone to complete a certain set of jobs and to do them well. The administration of the company has every right to observe and make sure that such is being done to complete all jobs needed and they are completed correctly. So yes indeed it is ethical because the company has to protect itself and make sure that no employee is trying to cheat it. But this observing the employees may make them paranoid and make them feel like they cant be trusted which may cause some friction between the employees and the administration.
Even though when obsevation is being done productivity increases , I do not think that is a good technique to use to gather data for a system study. I think this because you arent getting actually data on how they work in a regular environment. The only way it would work so efficient data could be collected would be if the employees did not know they were being watched so that way you can see them work in their regular enviroment and see if the productivity is more or less or even the same that is seen when being observed.
And this i believe just may bring us to the end of entries for my wonderful computer class since we are nearing the semester end. Now i must return to watching the redskins and the titans battle for the win. hope you guys are having a good weekend and i hope you guys have a very nice thanksgiving holiday. I dont know about you but i have a lot to be thankful for and i get to spend this thanksgiving with my family for the first time in my 18 years and 11months of living. needless to say im quite excited :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! =D
02 November, 2010
Online Databases
So for our Assignment this week were to google 3 websites that allow you to create your own database online. So as I am starting the assignment and searching for some websites to test out i find that any kind of database website there is you have to sign up for. I'm not that much of a fan of signing up to websites to have to use them when i'm only going to use them for one time. So I'm sorry Professor Aclin I did not complete this assignment and I apologize for making you waste your time reading this entire paragraph just to find this out. So hopefully you end up checking my blog either in the middle or the end of the Virtual stack of blogs that way it gives you a little break maybe even a chuckle, who knows.
But I would like to share the fact that i voted for the first time today!!!!!!! I was like a-kid-in-a-candy-shop type of excited to vote. I see it as my next step into adulthood. I have an obligation to myself and our fine citizens to help vote in the candidates that have our best interests at heart. Many of my friends that are may age either havent registered or just didnt want to vote because they dont think it effects us yet its a more adult responsibility that we have later on when we are on our own. But boy are they wrong. Education was my main focus on my selections today. I need the people who are willing to make education one of their priorities because the standard in our great nation is falling and as a college student i need for these outragous tuition prices to be dropped a bit ahhahaha or making it easier for an average white american to get financial aid. because at this rate i shall be broke by my sophomore year in college. yayyy....
hope all are doing well and had a happy halloween.
-Allie signing out- :)
But I would like to share the fact that i voted for the first time today!!!!!!! I was like a-kid-in-a-candy-shop type of excited to vote. I see it as my next step into adulthood. I have an obligation to myself and our fine citizens to help vote in the candidates that have our best interests at heart. Many of my friends that are may age either havent registered or just didnt want to vote because they dont think it effects us yet its a more adult responsibility that we have later on when we are on our own. But boy are they wrong. Education was my main focus on my selections today. I need the people who are willing to make education one of their priorities because the standard in our great nation is falling and as a college student i need for these outragous tuition prices to be dropped a bit ahhahaha or making it easier for an average white american to get financial aid. because at this rate i shall be broke by my sophomore year in college. yayyy....
hope all are doing well and had a happy halloween.
-Allie signing out- :)
24 October, 2010
Should you worry about cell phone, cellular antenna, and wi-fi device radiation?
This post shall be half computer assignment, half regular blog post. :)
Even if people do not have a cell phone this issue of possibly radiation applies to everyone...except the amish i assume. There are cell antennas and wi-fi connections pretty much everywhere you go, even if you are an agoraphobic your neighbor probably has wi-fi that reaches to your house. soon enough there will be a wifiphobia (fear of wifi). ha. i shall trademark that before someone else does =P but i chose this topic cus it applies to me and i mean if they did find out it may have radiation that could lead to cancer i feel as if i would still use my phone cus txting and wifi are MAJOR parts of my life :)
Of course im concerned about radiation coming from things that i use and things that are around me because radiation can do damage if you are exposed to a large enough amount. BUT on the other hand we are talking about things that i use in my everyday life. things that it would be hard to live without. i mean i was born into the texting generation and its what im use to and for me to just cut it cold turkey it would be kindve hard ha. same with cellular antennas and wifi. even if i were to stop using my cell phone and would have cable instead of wifi the people around me, stores that have wifi (i.e. panera, mcdonalds, etc) i would still be exposed.
I personally do not know anyone who limits themselves due to the specific reason of possible radiation. I think a lot of people are not aware of this new possible "theory" that radiation coming from their cell phone or wireless devices could potentially be harmful. It seems to be a fairly new proposition and when actual results and research can be used to prove this proposal.
When there are health concerns around any kind of issues that the government have to decide on they should be addressed. It should be required that the concerns are looked into no matter what piece of technology or activity or whatever, they should be addressed no matter what. So in the specific area of wireless deployment it should be required to look into heath concerns and if necessary look for the best way about avoiding any major problems or concerns.
Would I live next to a cellular antenna you ask? hmm let me put it this way it probably wouldnt have that much influence on whether i would or would not buy a house. As long as its not gonna keep me up at night and i can get my beauty sleep then why not. Obviously you dont just drop dead from the radiation from cellphones, wifi or cell antennas. I could be driving to my computer class tomorrow and get into a serious accident and die instantly, you really dont know how or when you will leave this place so why let something that could affect you 10 or 20 or 30 years from now when tmw you could fall down the stairs and break your neck. Plus by the time I would get cancer they just may have the cure. :)
okay now its story time.
so tuesday as i was walking down the stairs from the fourth floor after my first class so i could go get lunch there was this guy that was talking to me. we were talking about fantasy football. now we all know my lack of success with fantasy football not because i dont know my stuff but simply because the group of guys that i have chose to do good at different times so no one is ever on the same page resulting in constant losing. anyway thats besides the fact. so we were talking about fantasy. and the convo went something like this:
Me:yea my team isnt doing so hott this year even tho i have pretty good players they just dont like to work together.
Guy: yea i smashed people the first four weeks and now its like my guys cant do anything.
Me: I was praying so hard to get either chris johnson or AP (adrian peterson) but that didnt happen cus i was third pick so i just took ray rice.
Guy: Yea I had first pick....
Me: YOU GOT CHRIS JOHNSON! you lucky SOB.
Guy: nahhh i didnt take chris johnson..
Me: oh your an AP fan arent you???
Guy:nahh i didnt take him either
Me: umm then who the hell did you pick..???
Guy: Well i was deciding between peyton manning and joe flacco.
Me (thinking): WTF is he *bleeping* stupid. your kidding me. am i gonna have to beat someones ass..i mean butt right here in front of all these people. how stupid could you be the *beep*
Guy: im a big flacco fan so i just went with my man.
Me: Are you *bleepin* crazy???? you had FIRST PICK and you picked JOE *bleepin* FLACCO.
Guy: Yea hes my man...(interrupted)
Me: that is possibly the stupidest thing i have ever heard. you NEVER pick a QB if you have the FIRST pick let alone barely in the first round.
END OF CONVO
What would possess someone to make such a stupid decision. are you kidding me. if you have a chance to have Chris 2K Johnson on your team you do not blink, you do not take a breath, you do not take a bite of your sandwich, you hold your bladder, you do not pass go or collect $200. my goodness the stupidity amoung the human race now a days. i wanted to literally walk over to one of the pillars made of cement and just continuously bang my head against it until i feel unconcious. wow. yea. so thats all i have or want to say about this subject and i hope this random guy a)finds a girlfriend/wife/etc that knows more football then he obviously does and she can pick his team for him b) i hope his team epic gails the rest of the season...he does not deserve to win another match up and i know thats harsh and that karma is not a nice lady but he deserves it.
now i am going to finish watching my patriots hopefully beat the chargers :)
10 October, 2010
Automobile Fixture Men
Happy 10.10.10 everyone!!! And contrary to popular (well Facebook) belief, there will be another 10.10.10 in 100 years, not 1,000. In celebration of this centennial event, I am back and ready to grace this page with yet another blog, and talk about one of my "favorite" creations of all time (that was meant to be read with a sarcastic inflection!)...autofix!!!
Random segway into topic...
So what happened today. Well for one, a friend of mine from High School got married, congratulations Kathy and Brian!!! Oh and the Yankees won the ALDS....*massive eye roll*. This means one person in our little trio of people is happy, and to share his joy, this is what our only male and Yankee fan had to say:
Not too sure if I mentioned this before but Joe used to have a Zach Morris phone. He now has a "smart phone", which I now know is the reason why he was spelling so well late one night when he went out to watch a football game and was drinking...
However; the smart phone can only be so smart, it is up to the person typing to make sure the word the phone thinks you want to use is actually the phone you want to use. This is a major flaw of autofix....just sayin!!!
But let's not make fun of Joe for this one, because as I was laughing about it, I, using MY SMART PHONE, typed haha and it came out as hats! Yeah......karma is a bitch....*massive eye roll again*
Peace, Love and Penguins!!!,
Erica =)
Extra Credit: The above title was created using the autofix words my "smart phone" thought I wanted.
Random segway into topic...
So what happened today. Well for one, a friend of mine from High School got married, congratulations Kathy and Brian!!! Oh and the Yankees won the ALDS....*massive eye roll*. This means one person in our little trio of people is happy, and to share his joy, this is what our only male and Yankee fan had to say:
The above was written 7 hours ago from Mobile Web."Yankees in ALCS again put that in your pipe and smoke item"
Not too sure if I mentioned this before but Joe used to have a Zach Morris phone. He now has a "smart phone", which I now know is the reason why he was spelling so well late one night when he went out to watch a football game and was drinking...
However; the smart phone can only be so smart, it is up to the person typing to make sure the word the phone thinks you want to use is actually the phone you want to use. This is a major flaw of autofix....just sayin!!!
But let's not make fun of Joe for this one, because as I was laughing about it, I, using MY SMART PHONE, typed haha and it came out as hats! Yeah......karma is a bitch....*massive eye roll again*
Peace, Love and Penguins!!!,
Erica =)
Extra Credit: The above title was created using the autofix words my "smart phone" thought I wanted.
04 October, 2010
Should the Government Require Hard Disks to be Cleaned?
Sorry Erica but you've been slacking on posting a new entry and I have another assignment in my computer class to complete. so i am officially skipping your post. but that just means you have to write two more before my next one...so get going!
Prof Aclin, SiNc3 U Sa1D tH3 P()sT hAd 2 b R3aDaBl3 & U r N0T Ch3cK1n 4 GrAmMaR 1 F1GuR3D 1 w()uLd TyP3 L1k3 tH1S. Just kidding it literally took me ten minutes to type that sentence. hahaha so here we go.
When I found out that the government did not clean/encrypt/destroy their old hard disks with vital information on them I was in awe. I cant believe that they would be that careless with memory/storage pieces that contained at one point extremely important information. They go through all the precautions so people aren't able to hack into their information databases to then have that same information not be erased off donated or sold hard disks. I feel as if this is an extremely important issue and is the main reason on why I picked this issue to write about.
The Government should be required to make sure that all sold, donated, or discarded computers to be cleaned, encrypted, or destroyed. Personally if any kind of government info were to put on a hard disk that is not needed any more they should be completely destroyed. You never know what kind of hands that recycled hard disk will end up and I feel as if the government should take all precautions necessary to make sure that the data is not seen by people that shouldn't see it. There should be strict protocol that the government should require to clean/encrypt a hard disk that is going to be given to someone else to be reused.
I would take as much extra effort to clean or encrypt the contents of hard disks on sold, donated, or discarded computers. The information on the said hard disks could be used against the government or the people in it. Terrorists would kill to have any information that could get their grimy little hands on to break our nation. The fact that the government is careless enough to let this happen scares me and if information would fall in the wrong hands it could cause havoc across the nation. You just never know what could happen and as many precautions as possible should be taken for the sake of the safety of our people/nation.
Hey you government you seem to never let me down on disappointing me constantly. We are worried about other people trying to take us over and destroy us. It seems like you guys are doing an awesome job at doing :)
Prof Aclin, SiNc3 U Sa1D tH3 P()sT hAd 2 b R3aDaBl3 & U r N0T Ch3cK1n 4 GrAmMaR 1 F1GuR3D 1 w()uLd TyP3 L1k3 tH1S. Just kidding it literally took me ten minutes to type that sentence. hahaha so here we go.
When I found out that the government did not clean/encrypt/destroy their old hard disks with vital information on them I was in awe. I cant believe that they would be that careless with memory/storage pieces that contained at one point extremely important information. They go through all the precautions so people aren't able to hack into their information databases to then have that same information not be erased off donated or sold hard disks. I feel as if this is an extremely important issue and is the main reason on why I picked this issue to write about.
The Government should be required to make sure that all sold, donated, or discarded computers to be cleaned, encrypted, or destroyed. Personally if any kind of government info were to put on a hard disk that is not needed any more they should be completely destroyed. You never know what kind of hands that recycled hard disk will end up and I feel as if the government should take all precautions necessary to make sure that the data is not seen by people that shouldn't see it. There should be strict protocol that the government should require to clean/encrypt a hard disk that is going to be given to someone else to be reused.
I would take as much extra effort to clean or encrypt the contents of hard disks on sold, donated, or discarded computers. The information on the said hard disks could be used against the government or the people in it. Terrorists would kill to have any information that could get their grimy little hands on to break our nation. The fact that the government is careless enough to let this happen scares me and if information would fall in the wrong hands it could cause havoc across the nation. You just never know what could happen and as many precautions as possible should be taken for the sake of the safety of our people/nation.
Hey you government you seem to never let me down on disappointing me constantly. We are worried about other people trying to take us over and destroy us. It seems like you guys are doing an awesome job at doing :)
13 September, 2010
The weekend of 9/11-9/12
Now that Erica has graced us with an entry it is now Allies rightful turn to write....
So I'm taking this Computing and Information Technology class at the wonderful Anne Arundel Community College...also known as Harvard on the Severn....but anywho an assignment was to create a blog and well I already had a blog so I got a 100 on that part and now we have an assignment to actually make an entry about what we did this weekend. So here it goes...
Well lets start with Friday since many people consider Friday a part of the weekend, and they try to use it as an excuse for their lack of work (but I wont go into that). Friday morning didnt start out the greatest, we got a call early morning that my grandmother had passed away in her sleep, just about a month short of her 99th birthday. She lived a pretty long and happy life, and I only hope that she partyin hard up with my gramps. (I also hope that I have her genes) Other than that Friday wasnt that exciting, just pretty much took it easy.
Saturday morning I went and got my hair dyed...not very exciting. My momma and I went and looked at lap tops since we shall be buying one soon before I go off to College Park in the spring....also not very exciting. Saturday night my friends Beanie and Lee and myself went to Towson to visit some of our friends. I'll just leave it at we had some fun...there will be no incriminating of anyone hahaha. I got to see my best friend Jordan which made my night because he's the besttt.
I dont know how many times I was asked on Sunday if I was ready for some football. Just to let everyone know I've been waiting since January for football season to begin again. Football season means the following: fall weather, lots of food (especially pizza and nachos), yelling/screaming at people and the television, lots of arguing in the house, my fantasy football team failing epicly, and having an excuse to sit on my couch from 1pm-10pm in sweats and a jersey. My New England boys kicked some butt against Princess B-O and Princess Cocky Britches..for those of you who dont know who I'm talking about it would be Terrel Owens and Chad Ochocinco (yes his last name is legally Ochocinco for the sole reason that he is a dumbass). Tom Brady, Wes Welker and the rest of the guys had an amazing start to what looks to be an awesome season for not just the Patriots but for pretty much every team in the NFL.
I bid you fairwell and I am deeply sorry for those in my class that chose to read my blog and found that my weekend was not that exciting....or your are an anti-football fan....or if you hate the Patriots.
Allie's out like a light :)
So I'm taking this Computing and Information Technology class at the wonderful Anne Arundel Community College...also known as Harvard on the Severn....but anywho an assignment was to create a blog and well I already had a blog so I got a 100 on that part and now we have an assignment to actually make an entry about what we did this weekend. So here it goes...
Well lets start with Friday since many people consider Friday a part of the weekend, and they try to use it as an excuse for their lack of work (but I wont go into that). Friday morning didnt start out the greatest, we got a call early morning that my grandmother had passed away in her sleep, just about a month short of her 99th birthday. She lived a pretty long and happy life, and I only hope that she partyin hard up with my gramps. (I also hope that I have her genes) Other than that Friday wasnt that exciting, just pretty much took it easy.
Saturday morning I went and got my hair dyed...not very exciting. My momma and I went and looked at lap tops since we shall be buying one soon before I go off to College Park in the spring....also not very exciting. Saturday night my friends Beanie and Lee and myself went to Towson to visit some of our friends. I'll just leave it at we had some fun...there will be no incriminating of anyone hahaha. I got to see my best friend Jordan which made my night because he's the besttt.
I dont know how many times I was asked on Sunday if I was ready for some football. Just to let everyone know I've been waiting since January for football season to begin again. Football season means the following: fall weather, lots of food (especially pizza and nachos), yelling/screaming at people and the television, lots of arguing in the house, my fantasy football team failing epicly, and having an excuse to sit on my couch from 1pm-10pm in sweats and a jersey. My New England boys kicked some butt against Princess B-O and Princess Cocky Britches..for those of you who dont know who I'm talking about it would be Terrel Owens and Chad Ochocinco (yes his last name is legally Ochocinco for the sole reason that he is a dumbass). Tom Brady, Wes Welker and the rest of the guys had an amazing start to what looks to be an awesome season for not just the Patriots but for pretty much every team in the NFL.
I bid you fairwell and I am deeply sorry for those in my class that chose to read my blog and found that my weekend was not that exciting....or your are an anti-football fan....or if you hate the Patriots.
Allie's out like a light :)
03 September, 2010
As a young child living on the South Coast of Massachusetts I would spend my weekends with my grandmother, or as I have always called her vavó, which is Portuguese for grandma. I loved weekends with her. She used to make the most epic salads, you know the kind that you would never wanna know the calorie content of because it combined all your servings of grain, vegetable, dairy, meat and fat into one huge amazing salad! She once made me a garage for my matchbox cars out of a cardboard box, we would watch Celtics games, go down to the big rock that was on the lake, and I would help her carry in the gallon milk jugs because I was strong like that.
My Grandmother instilled many great qualities in me such as forgiveness, selflessness, and of course never put anything you don't want people to remember in writing.
So going back to that Summer/Fall of 2008, two things happened that led to this eventual blog post: 1. Doodle on Yahoo chat was discovered and 2. Joe got a job working at a radio station where his job was to make sure the commercials were timed right to come on and off at the appropriate times during the NFL season. So one evening Allie and I decided to give Joe a present, see below, and remember the words of wisdom my grandmother had given me when I was younger...
Umm...IDK why the flower is there, and I just realized the "football" player looks like he's on the Jets. The fish I believe is llama girl's sidekick, and the smilie face is something I just like drawing. Maybe for the sake of this photo, it's smiling because the "Jet's" player didn't make the touchdown...Yeah, I am going with that!
12 August, 2010
Rain Rain Go Away.
Well today was just an awesome day.....NOT. To start off today The Jonas Brothers were at Jiffy Lube Live formally called Nissan Pavillion in Virginia. No I am not a Jonas Brothers fan....but my sister is a BIG one. Well considering she is old enough to have a license and our Mother has to work...it leaves me to take her. Well between where we live and the concert place theres kind've semi-important district named Columbia (DC). Well it takes about an hour to get to the concert assuming theres no traffic but since this semi-important district just happens to be inbetween the two sites any time from 2-7 theres going to be massive traffic...so I've learned from todays lesson. So her and her friend needed to be at the place before 430 so we "planned" to leave at 230 but because my sisters a perfectionest she took about 20 minutes to just make sure her hair was in the perfect pony tail...so we didnt actually leave until 240 oh and then as we are getting ready to get on the highway she realizes that she doesnt have her camera so we have to turn around go back to the house and start the journey all over again. It's now 250 and they requested to get Chick Fil A on the way since its about 15 bucks cheaper than a meal at the Pavillion would cost so by the time we are actually on the road its about 305ish. Seems like plenty of time to get there right??....so we thought. We get on I495 and we sit in a parking lot of cars. We were only on 495 for about 15miles...so shouldve been like 20minutes-ish oh no it took 45mins to go 15miles.
Did I mention that I only had a half a tank of gas?? yea so we are still half to our destination when my tank lever thing just keeps going down. Only one solution to slowing it down....AC off and windows down. Did I also tell you that there was a huge storm coming so its about 90% humidity 87ish degrees so it feels like about 92. Yay us. and since we arent moving theres barely a breeze. Perfect way to spend an afternoon right? Driving to the best concert ever just to drop them off. We finally get to the place...they missed sound check since we didnt get there until 530 and they stopped letting people in at 430 so there was a ton of tension in the back seat I thought I could possibly have been strangled by the tension that was flowing in my vehicle. A trip down there that should've took no longer than 1hour 15mins tops took 2.5 hours.
Next mission find a gas station to do a number of things: 1.get gas 2. go potty 3. get some kind of snack for our rumbly tumblies. Mission Accomplished.
The ride back though had a lot less traffic let me tell you....oh but wait of course the ride couldnt have gone that smooth....mother nature decided that we were going to have a monsoon. yes my favorite driving condition! (sarcasm) the wind is blowing sheets of rain towards us so you can barely even see the lane lines...I definitely thought there was a large possibility we wouldnt have made it home without a dent, scratch, fender bender, etc.
So by the time we get home the entire trip took 5 hours when it shouldve taken only 2.5hrs. It was an awesome afternoon driving to drop my sister off at the coolest band ever created by the coolest three brothers that god ever put on this earth. I know you guys must be super jealous.
So to summarize the list of sucky things that happened:
1. jonas brothers concert with in a 100mile radius of my place of residence.
2. I had to drive.
3. Bumper to Bumper traffic going up.
4. Running out of Gas in the middle of journey resulting in the trading of AC with humid non exsisting wind.
5. Monsoon over Fredrick/Bethesda Maryland
6. Taking a trip that shouldve taken 2.5hrs but it ended up being 5hrs.
It gigures that I would have this much suck in one day. Yes I said gigures...my latest typo :)
Peace and chicken grease America.
P.S. Its still raining its been raining since about 7 this morning.
*Warning: Lots of sarcasm was used in this post to describe the awesomeness of a certain band of brothers*
Did I mention that I only had a half a tank of gas?? yea so we are still half to our destination when my tank lever thing just keeps going down. Only one solution to slowing it down....AC off and windows down. Did I also tell you that there was a huge storm coming so its about 90% humidity 87ish degrees so it feels like about 92. Yay us. and since we arent moving theres barely a breeze. Perfect way to spend an afternoon right? Driving to the best concert ever just to drop them off. We finally get to the place...they missed sound check since we didnt get there until 530 and they stopped letting people in at 430 so there was a ton of tension in the back seat I thought I could possibly have been strangled by the tension that was flowing in my vehicle. A trip down there that should've took no longer than 1hour 15mins tops took 2.5 hours.
Next mission find a gas station to do a number of things: 1.get gas 2. go potty 3. get some kind of snack for our rumbly tumblies. Mission Accomplished.
The ride back though had a lot less traffic let me tell you....oh but wait of course the ride couldnt have gone that smooth....mother nature decided that we were going to have a monsoon. yes my favorite driving condition! (sarcasm) the wind is blowing sheets of rain towards us so you can barely even see the lane lines...I definitely thought there was a large possibility we wouldnt have made it home without a dent, scratch, fender bender, etc.
So by the time we get home the entire trip took 5 hours when it shouldve taken only 2.5hrs. It was an awesome afternoon driving to drop my sister off at the coolest band ever created by the coolest three brothers that god ever put on this earth. I know you guys must be super jealous.
So to summarize the list of sucky things that happened:
1. jonas brothers concert with in a 100mile radius of my place of residence.
2. I had to drive.
3. Bumper to Bumper traffic going up.
4. Running out of Gas in the middle of journey resulting in the trading of AC with humid non exsisting wind.
5. Monsoon over Fredrick/Bethesda Maryland
6. Taking a trip that shouldve taken 2.5hrs but it ended up being 5hrs.
It gigures that I would have this much suck in one day. Yes I said gigures...my latest typo :)
Peace and chicken grease America.
P.S. Its still raining its been raining since about 7 this morning.
*Warning: Lots of sarcasm was used in this post to describe the awesomeness of a certain band of brothers*
08 August, 2010
Are You Ready for some Football?
First and foremost, I would like to say Happy 51st Birthday to my mom! You know what this means Red Sox and Mr. Josh Beckett, there better be a win for her tonight...just sayin!!
Not only is August 8th my mother's birthday, the name of a song, and the day where I expect pure perfection from the Red Sox, it also marks...*DRUM ROLL*
THE FIRST NFL PRE-SEASON GAME!!!
That's right! Football is officially official, and I am super excited because football season is such a wonderful time. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE baseball, and nothing in life is more enjoyable than watching a Red Sox Yankees game, but football is once a week so all that energy and "hatride" for the other team just builds up and is released into an approximately 3hr time period or more if the game goes into OT.
Today's game features a whole bunch of epic gailures, and I am so excited. The matchup: Cincinnati vs. Dallas. Which team do you begin with first? Oh yes, the recently laughable Bengals. So you guys think you are all bad ass now that you beat the Patriots (who last season lost Wes Welker)? Well unfortunately for the city of Cincinnati, none of the fans are even going to be allowed in the stadium. It's filled to max capacity already by the giant egos of Chad Ochocinco and the newly signed Terrel Owens. I mean really?! I wonder if there is a any clauses in their reality TV contracts about footage of them two crossing paths. I mean could you imagine them fighting over footage to be aired? Would they combine the two making the world most trashiest TV show. It's kinda sad how it would be considering there is a show called Jersey Shore out there...OK I need to stop, this has the potential to get way out of control....which leaves the other team...
The Dallas Cowgirls!!!! This is actually my dads favorite team. We also, a couple years ago, had a conversation about this, and I had asked him if he thought I would be a Cowboys fan if him and my mom didn't divorce, and he said "Do you really think any influence of mine would have made a difference?" Well dad, you are right. Thanks for passing on the "think for yourself gene", but I guess in a sense it backfired. (I'd like to point out at this time that I do love my dad, and we joke about football all the time). I am not a fan of the Cowboys at all, in fact, I did the most sacrilegious thing a daughter could do, and chose the NY Giants as my NFC team of choice...how do you like them apples? Which actually brings me to the point of this blog.
As I have mentioned before the summer of 2008 was the birth of our big inside joke about misspellings. We've had masked-potatoes, epic gailures, ultimare successes, polympics, etc...but I left one important one out, and saved it for today. As I mentioned in the above paragraph, I watch the NY Giants, which comes in handy when I am at school because there is no way in heck I am watching the Jets (unless they are playing the Patriots). One day in chat we were talking about football (in August we always get that football fever) and since I like to make random connections and Joe had just enlisted into the navy I came up with the G.I. ants. You get it? I personally thought it was hilarious. Somewhere along the way with talking about football, Allie had typed GIants which made it look like Glants, and thus a new team in the NFL was born, the New York football Glants. And ever since than, I don't feel like I am betraying dad so much (alright I never did but it would have made for a good ending).
So in the spirit of football and the upcoming season, I would just like to say GO GLANTS and GO PATRIOTS!!! I leave you all and T.O with this: My favorite NFL player =)
Not only is August 8th my mother's birthday, the name of a song, and the day where I expect pure perfection from the Red Sox, it also marks...*DRUM ROLL*
THE FIRST NFL PRE-SEASON GAME!!!
That's right! Football is officially official, and I am super excited because football season is such a wonderful time. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE baseball, and nothing in life is more enjoyable than watching a Red Sox Yankees game, but football is once a week so all that energy and "hatride" for the other team just builds up and is released into an approximately 3hr time period or more if the game goes into OT.
Today's game features a whole bunch of epic gailures, and I am so excited. The matchup: Cincinnati vs. Dallas. Which team do you begin with first? Oh yes, the recently laughable Bengals. So you guys think you are all bad ass now that you beat the Patriots (who last season lost Wes Welker)? Well unfortunately for the city of Cincinnati, none of the fans are even going to be allowed in the stadium. It's filled to max capacity already by the giant egos of Chad Ochocinco and the newly signed Terrel Owens. I mean really?! I wonder if there is a any clauses in their reality TV contracts about footage of them two crossing paths. I mean could you imagine them fighting over footage to be aired? Would they combine the two making the world most trashiest TV show. It's kinda sad how it would be considering there is a show called Jersey Shore out there...OK I need to stop, this has the potential to get way out of control....which leaves the other team...
The Dallas Cowgirls!!!! This is actually my dads favorite team. We also, a couple years ago, had a conversation about this, and I had asked him if he thought I would be a Cowboys fan if him and my mom didn't divorce, and he said "Do you really think any influence of mine would have made a difference?" Well dad, you are right. Thanks for passing on the "think for yourself gene", but I guess in a sense it backfired. (I'd like to point out at this time that I do love my dad, and we joke about football all the time). I am not a fan of the Cowboys at all, in fact, I did the most sacrilegious thing a daughter could do, and chose the NY Giants as my NFC team of choice...how do you like them apples? Which actually brings me to the point of this blog.
As I have mentioned before the summer of 2008 was the birth of our big inside joke about misspellings. We've had masked-potatoes, epic gailures, ultimare successes, polympics, etc...but I left one important one out, and saved it for today. As I mentioned in the above paragraph, I watch the NY Giants, which comes in handy when I am at school because there is no way in heck I am watching the Jets (unless they are playing the Patriots). One day in chat we were talking about football (in August we always get that football fever) and since I like to make random connections and Joe had just enlisted into the navy I came up with the G.I. ants. You get it? I personally thought it was hilarious. Somewhere along the way with talking about football, Allie had typed GIants which made it look like Glants, and thus a new team in the NFL was born, the New York football Glants. And ever since than, I don't feel like I am betraying dad so much (alright I never did but it would have made for a good ending).
So in the spirit of football and the upcoming season, I would just like to say GO GLANTS and GO PATRIOTS!!! I leave you all and T.O with this: My favorite NFL player =)
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05 August, 2010
A Pizza Party for All of Pittsburgh (and a senior prom from senior citizens)
It's been a while since I have graced the pages of this fine blog. Since the last time I have been a very busy girl. I have been getting back into a normal workout, annoying people with my new vuvuzela ringtone (don't act surprised, it even comes with a vuvuzela app, so now I can rock out to a red vuvuzela), and getting ready for another fine year at Stony Brook University (GO SEAWOLVES!!).
It's going to be my second year experiencing dorm life. My first year wasn't a success but it wasn't a disaster either. I was one of those people who didn't think I needed a whole lot, after all I am not a high maintenance person. As the semester progressed I realized how wrong I was. As I told my aunt, you don't really appreciate a cup until it's 2AM and you wake up hot and sweaty craving water! As a health and wellness minor, I know that when you are thirsty, your body is already dehydrated, but when you are craving water like a PMS'ing chick craves chocolate, I think you are in a bit of trouble. The very next day, I drove to my local Setaucket Wal*Mart and bought myself plastic cups, cute ones too, they were clear with red and green polka dots (Christmas comes early up here). The one thing I never bought and regretted it time after time was Pepto Bismol.
Now I can go multiple ways with this post to get to where I am going with this but since the trade deadline for the MLB just came and it's an Erica and Joe story, I will go the baseball route. A long time ago there was a short stop that played for the Boston Red Sox named Freddy Sanchez and a young GM named Theo Epstein that Red Sox nation hails as a god. Well this god amongst men traded the young and talented Freddy Sanchez for a player named Brandon Lyon sending Sanchez to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened me greatly as he was one of the first minor leaguers that I followed, so being a great baseball fan I followed him in his career with Pittsburgh and since I didn't have a NL team, decided The Pirates would be mine.
Fast-forward to 2008 there was a young player in the Yankees farm system by the name of Jose Tabata and the puppet GM known as Brian Cashman who traded Tabata for Demarte and Xavier Nady (the 4079634th) sending Tabata to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened Joe as he was a player he considered would be beneficial for the Yankees in the future. Thus the decision to both like the Pirates and have them be our "neutral" team was born. Now I am not too sure how serious Joe is about that but I am not sure if I want to know....
Anyways July 31st is a good day in the land of Erica. It's my uncle's birthday and it's a baseball holiday. This year Theo finally listened to me (the memo must have gotten lost with the fan mail, I will make sure this doesn't happen in the future) and signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Maybe next year he will bring Justin Masterson back to the Red Sox. The Yankees signed Austin Kearns and Lance Berkman. Who did the Pirates sign? Well let me introduce you to him in the best way I know possible!!!
It's going to be my second year experiencing dorm life. My first year wasn't a success but it wasn't a disaster either. I was one of those people who didn't think I needed a whole lot, after all I am not a high maintenance person. As the semester progressed I realized how wrong I was. As I told my aunt, you don't really appreciate a cup until it's 2AM and you wake up hot and sweaty craving water! As a health and wellness minor, I know that when you are thirsty, your body is already dehydrated, but when you are craving water like a PMS'ing chick craves chocolate, I think you are in a bit of trouble. The very next day, I drove to my local Setaucket Wal*Mart and bought myself plastic cups, cute ones too, they were clear with red and green polka dots (Christmas comes early up here). The one thing I never bought and regretted it time after time was Pepto Bismol.
Now I can go multiple ways with this post to get to where I am going with this but since the trade deadline for the MLB just came and it's an Erica and Joe story, I will go the baseball route. A long time ago there was a short stop that played for the Boston Red Sox named Freddy Sanchez and a young GM named Theo Epstein that Red Sox nation hails as a god. Well this god amongst men traded the young and talented Freddy Sanchez for a player named Brandon Lyon sending Sanchez to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened me greatly as he was one of the first minor leaguers that I followed, so being a great baseball fan I followed him in his career with Pittsburgh and since I didn't have a NL team, decided The Pirates would be mine.
Fast-forward to 2008 there was a young player in the Yankees farm system by the name of Jose Tabata and the puppet GM known as Brian Cashman who traded Tabata for Demarte and Xavier Nady (the 4079634th) sending Tabata to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This saddened Joe as he was a player he considered would be beneficial for the Yankees in the future. Thus the decision to both like the Pirates and have them be our "neutral" team was born. Now I am not too sure how serious Joe is about that but I am not sure if I want to know....
Anyways July 31st is a good day in the land of Erica. It's my uncle's birthday and it's a baseball holiday. This year Theo finally listened to me (the memo must have gotten lost with the fan mail, I will make sure this doesn't happen in the future) and signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Maybe next year he will bring Justin Masterson back to the Red Sox. The Yankees signed Austin Kearns and Lance Berkman. Who did the Pirates sign? Well let me introduce you to him in the best way I know possible!!!
Yes, Mr. Diarrhea himself, moves from The Yankees to The Pirates.
Another reason I wanted to go the baseball route was because I needed a segway into the misspelling which is really what this blog is supposed to be all about. MLB and the Pepsi Refresh Project have teamed together as you can see here: Pepsi and MLB. Joe's been out to sea as part of his naval duties, and I have been sharing information with him as far as baseball is concerned (because I am awesome like that ;)) and informed him about Chan Ho Park (aka Mr. Diarrhea) had been traded, and had him guess. First guess was Boston, to which I replied No, one of your favorite teams. He than said Mets which shocked me because he hates the Mets, but unfortunately people think I am being sarcastic at times when I am not (inflection and tone don't translate well over text). I than informed him about CHP going to the Pirates which reminded me that I had voted for Pittsburgh for the Pepsi refresh project. Instead, it came out as the following:
Erica:
As if our beloved Pirates aren't a laughing stock enough
I actually voted for the Pirates in the pepso thing they are doing
Joe:
huh?
what's pepso?
So you think it ends there, oh no no, not when it comes to me! Joe then decides to let Allie know what's going on because well, it's her right to know. So I see the little post on her Facebook wall and comment as such:
It's a wonderful mix of Pepsi with a hint of Pepto Bismol to counter act the gassiness of Pepso!!!
Yes, I did it again!!! I blame my BlackBerry Storm for this. It would have recognized the mistake because it's has my back and looks out for me, unlike Facebook....you spoil me BlackBerry...
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28 July, 2010
Shopping: every girls hobbie, our Kryptonite
One thing Erica and I share hatride for....shopping. My gosh I would choose to do anything in the world over shopping....even watch golf or tennis (which I find rather boring to watch). I have no idea what it is about the act of shopping but when I go to the mall with my two best friends I find myself wanting to bang my head against a brick wall or punch the nearest baby. Heaven forbid if there was a baby nursery in the mall and I would just so happen to be walking past it, I would end up going on a baby punching spree (dane cook reference). I dont understand why I hate shopping so much. Maybe its the fact that I'm one of those people who if I dont need something I wont buy it. I mean I'm fine with not having the brand new season of clothes from American Eagle...if I have clothes to wear I will not go out and buy new ones. End of story.
Anyway the other day, actually yesterday matter of fact my best friend June and I went to Annapolis Mall. Now normally I wouldnt mind going there because it tends to be filled with Navy men :) (some thing Erica and I love...men in uniform) anyway so the first hour goes by and everythings fine and we are going to stores that June says she needs to stop in to buy some stuff. After the first store I find that her definition of "needs to get" means "I have coupons for this store and I just got paid so lets go buy stuff that I dont need with the money I could be saving up because I'm in college and I am going to have bills to pay". So after I learn this my mood goes from "having fun hanging out with my best friend" to "omg I want to kill myself, does anyone have a gun or a pocket knife" (no I am not depressed or ever had a thought of suicide just for the record). We spent not 1, not 2, not 3...but 3 AND A HALF HOURS at the mall. Oh and did I mention I was starving for some food...the combination of shopping and being hungry = Allyson has her grumpy suit on. When we got out of our soon to be last store and her shopping and my misery was finally brought to a close due to the fact that (A)the mall was closing in 5mins (B) June ran out of coupons and (C) I was starving and made a run to the food court. So on our way out I got 5 Guys fries which made it a little better. And as you can see I am alive. :)
Anyway the other day, actually yesterday matter of fact my best friend June and I went to Annapolis Mall. Now normally I wouldnt mind going there because it tends to be filled with Navy men :) (some thing Erica and I love...men in uniform) anyway so the first hour goes by and everythings fine and we are going to stores that June says she needs to stop in to buy some stuff. After the first store I find that her definition of "needs to get" means "I have coupons for this store and I just got paid so lets go buy stuff that I dont need with the money I could be saving up because I'm in college and I am going to have bills to pay". So after I learn this my mood goes from "having fun hanging out with my best friend" to "omg I want to kill myself, does anyone have a gun or a pocket knife" (no I am not depressed or ever had a thought of suicide just for the record). We spent not 1, not 2, not 3...but 3 AND A HALF HOURS at the mall. Oh and did I mention I was starving for some food...the combination of shopping and being hungry = Allyson has her grumpy suit on. When we got out of our soon to be last store and her shopping and my misery was finally brought to a close due to the fact that (A)the mall was closing in 5mins (B) June ran out of coupons and (C) I was starving and made a run to the food court. So on our way out I got 5 Guys fries which made it a little better. And as you can see I am alive. :)
27 July, 2010
Polympics, the Polymer of sports!
I am a Biochemistry major. I have a love of DNA that is massive! I also have the propensity to be able to misspell the simplest word but be able to spell some of the most complex words correctly, such as amygdala. It's how I roll. It could be because I am left-handed, or because I march to the beat of my red vuvuzela, but regardless it is a little know fact about me =)
That and I like to add smiley faces to things!
So I mentioned in my first post that the documentation of our spelling misfortunes began circa June 2008. The summer of 2008 was one of great discovery, great change, and the great summer Olympics, headed by Michael Phelps and his 8 gold medals. It also marked the beginning of Allie and my fantasy sports journey (she failed to mention that I won in the baseball league last year, beating her in the finals, just thought I would put it out there ;))
For those unfamiliar with the events that lead up to Michael Phelps ultimare success~ in the Olympics, let me fill you in on another little known fact about me. The French irritate me. Now don't take it the wrong way, I am not racist against them and I don't openly dislike all French people, I am just saying that the nation of France has a way with irritating American people, but we do love lady liberty. This is what I am talking about. Before the swimming events the French team said they were going to "smash" the Americans. Ummm...did they miss 1940s history class? You don't poke a sleeping bear, we will crush you!!! And, we did!
Well what does me being a Biochem major and the Olympics have in common? Biochem majors study cellular processes, especially proteins which are part of a class of molecules called polymers. Notice how POLYMER and OLYMPICS look similar, I think you know where I am going with this one...
Throughout the whole Olympics, I would type Polympics, it was like the sports loving part of my brain and the science loving part of my brain where fighting like a really bad couple, you know the ones who you ask yourself "Why are they together?!", but eventually ended up on a compromise. I would do this so subconsciously that I believe that I had convinced myself this was the correct way to spell it. Kinda like how you type a word so much it doesn't look right, well the opposite of that feeling.
And now I leave you with a beautiful photograph of none other than DNA:
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25 July, 2010
Fantasy Sports and Ultimare Success~ & Epic Gailures
Why hello blog readers, this would be Allie speaking. So this would be my very first blog post ever. Exciting right?...yea not really but hey you bet your boots its pretty cool :)
(you bet your boots: a saying i use quite often to express definites)
So anyway on the subject of fantasy sports. I personally have only been involved in football and baseball; the two sports i follow the closest to have the slightest clue who players are and such. Every football or baseball season we have normally the same group of people that gather in to the RSC League (Red Sox Chat...most of us are/were frequent visitors of the site). My very first season I participated in fantasy football was a very very long and dreadful season. Needless to say I came in last....not just any last but I dont think I won but 2 match ups against the fake team that had all injuried/and or bad players on it because we needed one more team in the league to enter the draft. Theres a little box under your team name where you can "talk smack"...in other words for you facebook users its like updating your status...one match up my team did absolutely horrible half of my players had like barely one point and my defense had like negative points so I entered "epic gailure" into my talking smack box. No its not a type-o...well it was then but not now. Any way I didnt notice until Erica (Jung-fu) had said something about my epic gailure match up and I simple was like "what the heck you talkin bout" and she had me go look...sure enough my talking smack said "epic gailure". Needless to say failure is never an option for us...but gailure is!
So football season ends and here comes baseball season and what is my first fantasy baseball season. I can honestly say I was not looking forward to this season of fantasy sports what so ever after my fall/winter epic gailure. I ended up fielding a decent team and was actually winning match ups...amazing huh? I got really excited when I was in third place and was rubbing it in to Erica how good my team was doing. I told her instead of being an epic gailure my team was an "Ultimare Success~". No not ultimate...ultimare. oh and another thing we dont use exclamation points we use ~ instead. Simply because we like the spanish language and the fact it uses those little wavy lines above some n's...or its because I am the most frequent type-o typer in the world.
Fantasy Count:
Epic Gailures: 1
Ultimare Successes: 1.5 (theres one in the making)
Anyway I figured I'd chime in on two of my most famous type-o's for my first blog post ever. You bet your boots I'll be back :)
P.S. It wouldnt suprise me if you who is reading found type-o's in the following post.
(you bet your boots: a saying i use quite often to express definites)
So anyway on the subject of fantasy sports. I personally have only been involved in football and baseball; the two sports i follow the closest to have the slightest clue who players are and such. Every football or baseball season we have normally the same group of people that gather in to the RSC League (Red Sox Chat...most of us are/were frequent visitors of the site). My very first season I participated in fantasy football was a very very long and dreadful season. Needless to say I came in last....not just any last but I dont think I won but 2 match ups against the fake team that had all injuried/and or bad players on it because we needed one more team in the league to enter the draft. Theres a little box under your team name where you can "talk smack"...in other words for you facebook users its like updating your status...one match up my team did absolutely horrible half of my players had like barely one point and my defense had like negative points so I entered "epic gailure" into my talking smack box. No its not a type-o...well it was then but not now. Any way I didnt notice until Erica (Jung-fu) had said something about my epic gailure match up and I simple was like "what the heck you talkin bout" and she had me go look...sure enough my talking smack said "epic gailure". Needless to say failure is never an option for us...but gailure is!
So football season ends and here comes baseball season and what is my first fantasy baseball season. I can honestly say I was not looking forward to this season of fantasy sports what so ever after my fall/winter epic gailure. I ended up fielding a decent team and was actually winning match ups...amazing huh? I got really excited when I was in third place and was rubbing it in to Erica how good my team was doing. I told her instead of being an epic gailure my team was an "Ultimare Success~". No not ultimate...ultimare. oh and another thing we dont use exclamation points we use ~ instead. Simply because we like the spanish language and the fact it uses those little wavy lines above some n's...or its because I am the most frequent type-o typer in the world.
Fantasy Count:
Epic Gailures: 1
Ultimare Successes: 1.5 (theres one in the making)
Anyway I figured I'd chime in on two of my most famous type-o's for my first blog post ever. You bet your boots I'll be back :)
P.S. It wouldnt suprise me if you who is reading found type-o's in the following post.
21 July, 2010
Oakland: An intense feeling of dislike
Some background information: As a Red Sox fan, Red Sox nation "dictates" that I am to hate the Yankees (and everything associated with it) with every fabric of my being. Well two things:
1. I refuse to hate someone solely based on their baseball team of preference. One of my best friends is a Yankee fan and if I had followed the rules of the nation I wouldn't have gotten the chance to know the person beyond the Yankee hat. Someone I consider to be wicked awesome!
2. I don't believe people should act a certain way bc it is what society "dictates". I consider myself to be very conservative when it comes to politics, but I also fully support stem cell research, which according to these "rules" of being on the right, I am not supposed to believe in, but Nancy Reagan supports it as well and I don't think anyone wants to fight with us!
As is quite obvious, I march to the beat of my own drum (or if I had my choice, it would be a vuvuzela), and in my mind, if there is any team to dislike it would be a team that thinks they are awesome even when they aren't, have obnoxious fans, and are from a city that is absolutely trashy, and with that I give you OAKLAND, CA. OK so if anyone reads this from Oakland and gets offended, please understand that 1. I am not the only one who feels this way, and 2. Acting like an idiot when your team is down 46-0 by halftime is going to give your town that kind of reputation. And don't say Boston is like that because we are a bunch of Irish, Italian and Portuguese people, drinking is our thing, it's not nice (or politically correct if you like to play that card) to make fun of one's culture. Now, I am all for being a great fan when your team is just going through "transition years" but if you're going to be abusive, take it out on your own fans. Patriot fans go to (I honestly don't even know the name of the field/stadium [you know your town sucks when you have to share a baseball/football field]) because it's cheaper and it gives us a chance to see the nice parts of California (I'm talking vine country, etc...not LA).
Anyways, Oakland won, and that got my blood boiling. And since I am trying to be a good Health and Wellness student instead of drowning my sorrows in masked potatoes or ice cream, or taking out my anger by throwing things as I usually do, I indulged in NCIS and than listened to some music when California on my mind came on, perfect song to reflect on how I felt about Oakland, and thus the decision to introduce one of the most famous misspellings was made.
Now we all have our little quirks, and one of my good friend's quirk is that she is the self appointed grammar police. So I take it upon myself to privately (we have a private message button) make it aware to my friends so they can fix the problem before she does. However; sometimes in life there are spelling errors that just warrant some, OK fine, a whole lot of laughter. The game was against the Yankees and unfortunately for us they were losing. Allie took this as an opportunity to explain her hatride for the Yankees. This was just an opportunity no one could pass up, not even the masked potato queen herself! We must have laughed about this for a good few minutes. But what made us laugh even harder was when she asked "Isn't that how it's spelled?!" Hatride?!
And for a final thought, Allie is like myself, we are both science nerds. It explains why I can't type a word that begins with Oly without wanting to begin it with a P (future post!). We can spell words like Amphoteric, and juxtamedullary without a problem, but a word as complex as the two syllable hatred, well ummm, can you please pass me a dictionary?
Take Me Out to the Ball Game!
Those who have debated with me know that I am a very passionate person. I will not debate with people on a topic I do not know because I do not like to look like an idiot, I do that enough on my own, especially today when I fell into a hole in the swamp. There are such topics that can get almost anyone going: abortion, the war, the BP oil leak, global warming, but none so much as the dreaded topic of domed stadiums.
Let me fill you all in here. I hate domed stadiums, and the ONLY time I think they are acceptable is when the weather conditions are too hot, THAT'S IT! I absolutely do not condone the use of domed stadiums in football what-so-ever. Some people, however; feel much differently.
I am a regular visitor of a site called Redsoxchat.com and we like to keep things very light, however; there are times when we do get into some serious debates (note: at this time Allie and I are on mic giving our usual very colorful color commentary). What went from a discussion about dehydration went into a discussion about the atrocities of domed stadiums. You see, we have a couple of Colts fans in chat, and well, yeah, I won't say anything mean, but you can see how they would feel.
Anyways, one of the chatters decided to cut the tension by mentioning one of Allie's favorite players, Coco Crisp. This would prove to not be a good idea, as it just regenerated all the "hatride" (that misspelling is for a future post, stay tuned!!) Allie had for not only domed stadiums but a specific team that plays in a dome in which Coco Crisp got into a fist fight with. This team if you haven't guess it is the Typa Bay Rays!! Yes, that's right, move over Tampa Bay, there's a new team in town!!! In her defense, she did catch herself midway through with a Typa....Tampa Bay, but it wasn't a good enough save as I caught on and made note of it with laughter. We're all friends, if you can't joke with us, who can you joke with?
In case anyone was wondering, the Red Sox won 2-1 and Dice-K actually pitched good. 6 games back, don't count us out yet!
Masked Potatoes-Zoro's favorite food!
So I mentioned that I sometimes will type a word wrong repetitively without realizing it. Here's prime example number one. Back story: I had just been informed of Joe enlisting in the navy and had a plethora of emotions about it. I was happy, a little scared, and a touch selfish because I was afraid of losing a good friend. Some people do crazy things at times like this, tattoos, piercings, join cults...me? Comfort food, most specifically mashed potatoes. Not only is it quite possibly the best food (I'm Portuguese and German btw) but it's quick to make and awesome comfort food.
Allie and I were discussing the best type of comfort foods when I told her that I liked masked potatoes. She than responded that she liked them too, to which I told her that masked potatoes were also part of my favorite food of all time, sheppard's pie. She than realized my constant misspelling and said she didn't even know what it was. I was shocked and asked her "How can you not know what masked potatoes are?!?!" and that was when I was made aware of my spelling mistake. We both joked about how masked potatoes were like regular potatoes but with masks on them and all I could think about was a potato with a Zoro mask on, the black hat and cape. I also thought of the episode of Full House where Joey found the potato that looked Joe Pesci. Weird. I am almost positive this was the birth moment of our documentation of misspellings. Circa June 2008.
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