Five Blogging Websites

I don't have personal experience with all of these, but a friend asked about them, so here goes.

5. Tumblr: This isn't really blogging, so I'm not sure how much this counts.
4. BlogSome: I don't really like this one, but it produces good results. It feels like an uglier rip-off of Blogger, which is why I'm not ever entirely satisfied.
3. LiveJournal: I heard that this is a good blogging site, but more writing-based than interest based.
2. Wordpress: My friends use this, so it can't be that hard to use. It's more block-y than Blogger, but it's more official-looking, too.
1. Blogger: Obviously, since both of my blogs are based here, this is what I prefer. The colors, the format, and the choice of simplicity or complexity make it ideal for inexperienced bloggers.

Six Things To Do With Old Nail Polish

I have some bottles of nailpolish that I'm never ever going to wear again. I'm saving them for my little sister now, since I guess when she's like seven or something that she'll like the Smurfy blue or lime green. However for those without little siblings, voila!

6. Paint a little on the end of fraying shoelaces. Its stickiness will create a makeshift aglet. Plus, it'll look cool, especially with Converse or Vans.
5. Paint it over screws to prevent rusting.
4. Use them to mark toothbrushes. My dad and I have the same color toothbrush, except now mine has a blue dot on it.
3. Use them to draw pictures, cause that's fun!
2. Use them to label jars and stuff with the color.
1.  Use them for parties or for ceramics, or anything that you can use nail polish remover on! Go crazy! :D

Seven Silly Quotes on Friendship

"Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life." 

7. A.A. Milne, from Winnie the Pooh: “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” 

6. Marlene Dietrich: “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” 

5. Aristotle: “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” 

4. Charles Dickens: "There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."

3. Groucho Marx: "When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"

2. Bernard Meltzer: "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

1. Mencius: "Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

Five Astounding Professions

5. Fortune Cookie Writer: Make it sound awesome without using a worn out concept. A challenge after the first three successful "Happiness will come with the next big storm." types.

4. Worm Picker: Get on your hands in knees in muddy areas during rainy days to put worms in a bucket so someone can go fishing. I think I'd rather be a cop, thank you.

3. Chicken Sexer: No, no, not that kind. Heads out of the gutter, young grasshoppers. They look up the butts of chicks (since reproductive organs are internal) and determine said chicks' sexes.

2. Cheese Sprayer: Spray cheese or butter on popcorn! Yummy!

1. Odd News Journalist: Okay, so I want to be a journalist. The whole odd news thing amuses me but it is a disgrace to the name of journalism! ... But it's funny. :)

The friend whom I've probably mentioned in  prior list bugged me into writing this. Really, I'm hitting Publish at 1:08 am on Monday, July 9th, but it's Saturday/Sunday's post. Dang it, I thought I could get away with neglecting this blog from my one reader. :)

Weird TV Things

Friday, July 6th addition:
I've been on vacation all week, and therefore lazy, but I did think of/notice more!!

Gugu Mbatha-Raw: Tish Jones, sister of Martha from Doctor Who on Touch as one of the main characters, Clea Hopkins
Roxana Brusso: The parole officer of Russ Brennan on Bones as the creepy Shirley on Touch
Aisha Hinds: Officer Randall on an episode of Bones on Detroit 1-8-7 as Lieutenant Mason
Patricia Belcher: Scary lawyer Caroline Julian on Bones on Good Luck Charlie as scary neighbore Mrs. Dabney

Yeah... Been watching too much Bones. 

 

Original Post:

I love television. Especially when I can go, hey, that guy looks familiar. Oh yeah, he's on so-and-so! XD

5. Katy Perry: On How I Met Your Mother as Stella's cousin

4. Neil Patrick Harris: Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother on Glee as Bryan Ryan

3. Neil Jackson: Sasha Belov from Make It Or Break It on How I Met Your Mother as Robin's surgeon date (Or vice-versa. HIMYM was first)

2. Geoff Stults: Walter from The Finder on How I Met Your Mother as Max, one of Robin's boyfriends (Again, vice-versa).

1. Michael Clarke Duncan: The basketball coach from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody on The Finder as Leo Knox

Five Weird TV... Things...

I love television. Especially when I can go, hey, that guy looks familiar. Oh yeah, he's on so-and-so! XD

5. Katy Perry: On How I Met Your Mother as Stella's cousin

4. Neil Patrick Harris: Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother on Glee as Bryan Ryan

3. Neil Jackson: Sasha Belov from Make It Or Break It on How I Met Your Mother as Robin's surgeon date (Or vice-versa. HIMYM was first)

2. Geoff Stults: Walter from The Finder on How I Met Your Mother as Max, one of Robin's boyfriends (Again, vice-versa).

1. Michael Clarke Duncan: The basketball coach from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody on The Finder as Leo Knox

Eight delicious desserts

Summer time!

8. Soda floats: I'm a Coca Cola girl, but with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, any soda will do.

7. Pie: Not cold, but tasty nonetheless

6. Almond Milk: So it isn't a conventional dessert. I always have this after dinner!

5. Gelato: Not fatty enough for my taste, and too lukewarm

4. Peach Cobbler: And other pie-like things. Yum.

3. Ice Cream: Classic creaminess that everyone loves.

2. Italian Ice: Super cold and crisp!

1. Popsicles: After-practice or after-dinner snacking. Cools you down and gives you lots of sugar!

What I'd really like to try is "grunts." Apparently, it's like cobbler except better...

Five Exemplary Websites

5. Twitter: Blah blah social networking. This site is on here because you can stalk people with it. I no longer use Facebook because of the amount of information I could uncover about other people through it. I find twitter does the same, so if you ever need to do a research project on a modern-day young person...

4. Tumblr: Tumblr is an addicting website. There's just so much on there, so many subcommunities and fan-cultures within the large network. I personally browse the tags gymnastics, Sherlock, and Doctor Who most often.

3. FanFiction.Net: I love reading stories on this website. The only thing that bugs me is the format. However, there are mountains of talented, creative amateur writers out there that can imagine so much more into a previously created fictional premise.

2. PostSecret: Talk about Community. The PS Community is huge, expansive, and almost completely open. It's a beautiful thing. I like Secret Sundays very much.

1. DeviantArt: This is my personal favorite because of my involvement in it. I like to display my photography here. Artists get criticism, which, because it isn't censored, isn't always clean or constructive. Also, there are quite a few instances of art theft. However, these blunders can be overlooked to discover an online community that can help you grow as a sketcher, writer, photographer, whatever.

Facebook has been left out because unlike these other sites, you absolutely have to have an account to access most features. Youtube has been because it's assumed that everyone has heard of the awesome-ness of Youtube. That and I don't personally like it so much.

Nine Intriguing TV shows

With absolutely no justification or system for ranking, here are just some awesome TV shows:

9.  Touch: Numbers are simply awesome.

8. Detroit 1-8-7 (Cancelled): This was a quality cop show. Why'd they cancel it?

7. New Girl: While sometimes a bit inappropriate, this show is funny.

6. Torchwood: Slightly sexualized British sci-fi. Spin-off of Doctor Who.

5. The Finder: Walter is this awesome maniac who finds things.

4. How I Met Your Mother: Funny funny funny!!

3. Bones: Who doesn't love a show filled with corpses?

2. Sherlock: BBC's interpretation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's meticulously crafted classics, a beautiful show with amazing actors.

1. Doctor Who: Amazing Science Fiction. Great picture quality, awesome stories, awesome characters.

... I'm such a Doctor Who fangirl. My rankings here are extremely biased. Oh well! :)

Also, I really really love this screen from Sherlock:

Awesome ABC's: Animals

Aardvark

At practice the other day, Lucy, one of my 5th grader teammates, asked me: "What's an animal that starts with an N? A U?" It got me thinking. And thinking. And dang it, I couldn't think of anything! Another teammate got newt for N, but we were stuck with the U. Therefore, a list!

A: Aardvark, Anteater, Alligator

B: Bear, Boar, Baboon

C: Cat, Chimpanzee, Chameleon

D: Dog, Dolphin, Donkey

Impala

E: Elephant, Egret, Emu

F: Falcon, Fish, Fox

G: Gorilla, Giraffe, Gazelle

H: Horse, Hyena, Hippo

I: Ibis, Impala, Ibex (small mountain goat thing that's apparently awesome) 

J: Jaguar, Jellyfish, Jackal

K: Kangaroo, Koala, Kookaburra <-- The Laugh, Kookaburra song was on a very creepy episode of Doctor Who called "Fear Her."

L: Lion, Leopard, Lemur

M: Monkey, Meercat, Moose

Quokka

N: Narwhal, Newt, Nightingale

O: Octopus, Orangutan, Owl

P: Parrot, Penguin, Panda

Q: Quail, Quokka, Quetzal

R: Raccoon, Rabbit, Rhino

S: Swan, Squirrel, Shark

T: Tiger, Turkey, Turtle

U: Urchin, Uakari

V: Vole, Vulture, Vicuna

W: Weasel, Wallaby, Wolf

X: X-ray Fish, Xyloryctes beetle, Xiphius gladius

Y: Yak, Yellowjacket, Yellowhammer

Z: Zebra, Zebu, Zander

Seven 100% Believable Excuses

For why I neglected the blog on Friday. It was only actually Friday since the weekend counts as one day in my world, but honestly, I just didn't get around to it. Whoopsies :)

7. I got grounded.

6. My internet crashed.

5. My computer flipped out.

4. I got burned on my fingertips so I couldn't type.

3. A horse trampled my laptop and I'm on a borrowed one.

2. My dog ate my battery and I needed to wait for the new one to come in the mail.

1. The power lines in my neighborhood were cut by burglars and we were out of power for the whole weekend.

Funny how they get longer as the list progresses, huh? :)

Six Beloved Childhood Friends

6. Caillou - This show about the four year old and his friends was a favorite of mine as a kid. The language is simple  and the picture, while also simple, is intricate. I especially liked his Chinese friend and their episode about chopsticks.

5. Clifford - I personally must own about 20 of the Clifford picture books. What little kid doesn't dream of having a dog they could ride to school?

4. Thomas & Friends - A beloved television series and book series about a tank engine and his hardworking little friends!

3. Elmo - Nanana, nanana, Elmo's World! Elmo's World is enjoyable for both little kids and their parents (and grandparents and big sisters). My little sister often will plop herself on my lap and demand to watch it. Like with other kid's show successes, the selling point for Elmo is his approachability and simplicity. Kids like someone they could cuddle and hug and do handstands with in their head.

2. Barney - Barney the purple dinosaur... who doesn't remember this loving, lumbering friend? I love you, you love me...

1. Scooby-Doo - Scooby-Doo and his crime solving buddies scares little kids but intrigues them at the same time. The fast, hyper, pumped-up activity of the characters make the show more suited towards older-than-toddlers-but-not-yet-tween kids.

My little sister's current favorites are Elmo and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show, but that wasn't around when I was a toddler, so it's been omitted from this list.

Ten Incredible Ways to Say Hello In Other Languages (Pronounce-able)

Everyone knows Hola! and Bonjour, so here are ten weirder ones!

10. Esperanto: Saluton

9. German: Guten tag

8. Norwegian: heisann!

7. Polish: cześć (chesch)

6. Hindi: Namaste

5. Portuguese: Oi!

4. South Welsh: shwmae! (shoe-my)

3. Latin: salve (sal-way) - one person, or salvete (sal-way-tay) - multiple persons

2. Russian: Privet! (Pree-vyet)

1. Swahili: Jambo!

If you want more, there are 140 others here. After learning all of those, if you wanted to talk to everyone on the planet, you'd only need to learn to say "hello" in 2,646 more languages! Bonne chance!

Seven Incredible Ways to Say Hello Without Saying "Hello"

7. Hey!

6. Hi

5. Yo!

4. Howdy!

3. Hiya!

2. Salutations!

1. Greetings!

Simply a list this time! :)

Five Phenomenal (Usable) Words 2

Five phenomenal words: email edition. Not those you can use in emails specifically, but those I received in emails today. In a friendly list-style chain email conversation, words one doesn't expect rising high school sophomores to dish out appeared. Kudos (that was one of them, actually) to C, L, and M for contributing unknowingly to today's list. The sentences are the quoted lines that my friends used the words in.

5.  Peruse 
pe·ruse/pəˈro͞oz/

Verb: To read thoroughly or at length

Translation: To browse with care.

Use it in a sentence: .I was perusing a pile of DVDs in the DVD section in the library when a lady came over, whisked the DVDs away, and tersely said, "Go away," to me.

4. Victual

vict·ual  /ˈvitl/

Noun: Food or provisions, typically as prepared for consumption.

Verb: To provide with food.
Translation: FOOD!

Use it in a sentence: ... at awkward times during the day when people are usually eating foodstuffs and random victuals, so...

3. Emulate

em·u·late  /ˈemyəˌlāt/

Verb: to match or surpass in imitation, to imitate

Translation: to copy.

Use it in a sentence: Please tell me you emulated Gollum; that would make me happy to no end.

I personally prefer using plain old "imitate" because emulate reminds me of emus.

2. Recalcitrant

re·cal·ci·trant    /riˈkalsətrənt/

Adjective: having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority
Noun: A person with such an attitude.

Translation: Disobedience

Use it in a sentence: Kyle, in my opinion, microwaves are more recalcitrant than toaster ovens.

1. Whimsicality

whim·si·cal·i·ty    \ˈhwim-zi-kəl, ˈwim-\ <-- for whimsical not whimsicality.

Noun : flightiness, the state of being whimsical

Translation: quirks.

Use it in a sentence: On a scale of Caillou episodes to your dutchie-passing whimsicalities and then onto Lady Gaga music videos, how would you rate the...

I'm not even sure if whimsicality is a real, real word. Princeton says so, but the Merriam Webster dictionary disagrees. I couldn't even find the notation thing for it. Whatever. :)

Ten Epic Movies: Animal Films: Horses

Another movie list! I had this period from around 5th grade to 7th that I was absolutely, head-over-heels, in love with... horses. I went around telling people that I was a horse. Seriously, no joke. Naturally, I still own a ton of horse DVDs and have a seen a ridiculous amount of horse-related movies, so picking ten will be easy:

10. Moondance Alexander (2007): This movie, while really well-made, is quite a cliche. A troubled man finds himself haunted by his past when an eccentric teenager shows up. He overcomes his personal troubles to help her achiever her dreams. There is a spectacular ending, which is why this film is even on the list.

9. Misty (1961): The movie had the real Misty in it: awesome! She didn't play herself, though. The movie is a film adaptation of Marguerite Henry's book about a pony on a Virginian island, Chincoteague Island, titled Misty of Chincoteague.The actual Misty has something like 80 descendents still living on Chincoteague!

8. Two Bits And Pepper (1995): This is more of a film for horse-people, particularly horsey kids. It's about two girls and two ponies who act incredibly brave when faced by some very bad criminals.

7. War Horse (2011): I actually haven't seen this whole movie. Didn't get to watch the last half hour or so, but the beginning and middle were definitely amazing. The book was awesome, and the film was a Spielberg film, practically guaranteeing awesome-ness.

6. Secretariat (2010): As a horse-racing film, it was dramatic and suspenseful and pretty much awesome, but it still doesn't trump Seabiscuit (2003).

5. Breaking Free (A Leap Of Faith) (1995): I personally am absolutely in love with this film because it combines my two loves: horse-jumping and gymnastics. The blind gymnast's story is inspirational and awesome, even though the origin of her blindness gave me nightmares about a particular balance beam dismount for weeks.

4. Black Beauty (1994): Because it's such a beloved story, there are naturally something like six film adaptations. My favorite, however, is the one from 1994, I think. I can't be sure because 1. The internet provides poor descriptions of them and 2. I have no idea where my personal copies of the various versions are.

3. Dreamer (2005): While Dreamer at first seemed like a Seabiscuit copycat, it was far from being so. The horse of Dreamer overcame his own obstacles. The movie showed a heartwarming bond between a horse and his person, a relationship every equine-obsessed kid craves.

2. Seabiscuit (2003): Seabiscuit, the horse, the book, and the movie, are three American legends (haha, get it? Probably not). The horse was it's own 1930's racing star, the book that chronicled its life inspired and continues to inspire mounds of jockeys and trainers to be, and the movie was the pioneer of horse-racing films.

1. Flicka (2006): Seriously, just watch this movie. It's got everything: family and horses. What else could you need?

I get that not everyone likes watching multi-ton, smelly animals lumber around chewing hay. But I think each action (except for cleansing their bodies of waste) of the horse is majestic and beautiful, even tasks as simple as eating. Obviously, the above movies do more than show horses eat. They highlight the things that make horses amazing even to those not completely in love. The ones made in 2003 and on are the best for a wider range of audiences, but they really are all great!

Seven Silly Colors

Think periwinkle sounds weird? Fuschia or chartreuse? Compared to the rest of these, they're completely sane and normal!! The numbers correspond to the above chart,  which is called Hex Triplet and is used for HTML and HTML5.

8. Wenge: This color is mostly referring to furniture.

#645452

7. Zinnwaldite Brown: Named after a mineral called zinnwaldite.

#2C1608

6. Gamboge: A pigment from tapping gamboge trees.

#E49B0F

5. Coquelicot: Named after a French poppy. Often referring to leather or furniture.

#FF3800

4. Ciel: A handbag color, I think, and scrubs.

#92A1CF

3. Razzmatazz: A Crayola color named after a five year old in 1993.

#E3256B

2. Xanadu: I think I read a book with a character named Xanadu once... named after a plant.

#738678

1. Caput Mortuum: It means "dead head" or "worthless remains" and is a paint pigment.

#592720

Four Crazy Songs

Some songs are beautiful. Some are soulful. Some are amazing. Some are timeless, like Aerosmith's "Dream On" or Queen's "We Are The Champions." And then, there are the songs that disgrace music. Some in good ways (it is possible!), some in bad:

4. "One Time" by Justin Bieber

3. "Pants On The Ground" by General Larry Platt

2. "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen

1. "Friday" by Rebecca Black

I realize that some people really like Justin Bieber. And some people really like Carly Rae Jepsen's "flirty" and "cute" new song. But it is not one time when you say it 34 times. And just for laughs, I'd like to point out that in "Never Say Never," he said it 53 times.

"Pants On The Ground" is amazing. I love it. XD "Friday," well, do I have to say anything?

Six Spectacular Conceptual Photographs

A picture's worth a thousand words. So here: A six thousand and something worded post. The photographs can speak for themselves. In one word, they are amazing.

Numbers 1 and 6 are from here. When people ask me to define conceptual photography, I show them the photograph ranked 1.  It's pretty much the photograph the rest of us baby-photographers look up to and try to live up to.

6. Equal by Mustafa Celikel

5. Behind the Smile by B-Alsha3er

4. Shyness by Alin Petrus

3. Brainstorm by Dave Nitsche

2. It's Just A Game by Ibrahim AlRabeh

1. A Creative Mess by highverbalfan