Firstly, I'd like to say "you're welcome" to Starbucks & PJs for all the money I spent there while writing this month. I'd also like to send out a "you're welcome" to the people who own the Internet because I have used it much more since starting this project. And a very big "you're welcome" goes out to Blogger - you never would have seen as much activity from my blog if it hadn't been for my ambitious nature.
Now for the rest of the post...
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
ArachNOphobia
My friend says I should write a post about how I have a problem because of how much I don't like spiders. But I say THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM. It is normal to dislike a venomous, evil, loathsome creature such as the spider. So I am just EXTRA normal. And I don't want to talk about it anymore.
What I would like to talk about is... well... damn it. Now that I've brought them up, I can't think about anything else. :( I really, really despise spiders. I do have to take issue with the word "arachnophobia" though.
Arachnophobia is defined in different places as different things. Wikipedia says that it's is "a specific phobia, the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions." The other arachnids are not the ones I have a problem with, however. Scorpions, though I've never confronted one personally, don't make me feel like I'm going to vomit. Same for ticks, which are also arachnids... those don't freak me out either. The medical dictionary gets more specific, though, saying it's "an abnormal fear of spiders."
What I would like to talk about is... well... damn it. Now that I've brought them up, I can't think about anything else. :( I really, really despise spiders. I do have to take issue with the word "arachnophobia" though.
Arachnophobia is defined in different places as different things. Wikipedia says that it's is "a specific phobia, the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions." The other arachnids are not the ones I have a problem with, however. Scorpions, though I've never confronted one personally, don't make me feel like I'm going to vomit. Same for ticks, which are also arachnids... those don't freak me out either. The medical dictionary gets more specific, though, saying it's "an abnormal fear of spiders."
Umm... can somebody please explain to me exactly what might be normal about liking spiders? I say THAT is a disorder: arachnophilia. Yeah, let's add that one to the Wiktionary: arachnophilia - n. the abnormal love of spiders.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Custom Road Signs
So, I've said a thing or two in my little blog regarding how I feel about driving laws and other drivers. To piggy-back on this idea, I have created just a few custom road signs that I would like to see on the highways of North America:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
First World Problems
After writing my post yesterday (where the poor stick fellow took one for the team because my hair dryer didn't work... R.I.P.), I realized that being frustrated by a hair dryer that doesn't work would be an absolutely preposterous idea to someone who has absolutely nothing.
"You mean you have a machine that blows your hair dry? Here we just call that the wind."
That's when I started really thinking about how ridiculous some of our "problems" are, did some searching and stumbled upon this tumblr site full of First World Problems. I am, of course, very likely the last person to have heard about this site to-date, but for me, this was a very timely finding.
I can't think of anything we have to complain about here in the Land of the Privileged that doesn't fall into this category. Every single problem we have here in the First World is a first world problem. Just in an effort to try and prove my very own self wrong (how's that for rhetorical arguing?), I tried to think of just ONE problem that wouldn't fit the description. Just one. It didn't work out so well. Here is the list I brainstormed:
"You mean you have a machine that blows your hair dry? Here we just call that the wind."
That's when I started really thinking about how ridiculous some of our "problems" are, did some searching and stumbled upon this tumblr site full of First World Problems. I am, of course, very likely the last person to have heard about this site to-date, but for me, this was a very timely finding.
I can't think of anything we have to complain about here in the Land of the Privileged that doesn't fall into this category. Every single problem we have here in the First World is a first world problem. Just in an effort to try and prove my very own self wrong (how's that for rhetorical arguing?), I tried to think of just ONE problem that wouldn't fit the description. Just one. It didn't work out so well. Here is the list I brainstormed:
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