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| I have been reading/writing blogs for the better part of 4 years now and I think the time has come to do a rant about stupid computer phonics, aka, l33t (and by the time has come, I mean I'm done procrastinating). Xanga, MySpace, Live Journal, and all the self-proclaimed "teen social networking websites" have taken the English language and butchered it with these retarded combinations of number/letter phrases and idiotic shortening of words to adjust to the teenage youth new found desire for laziness.
Below are examples of what I call, "information age induced illiteracy". This is not held specifically to computers, but also words and phrases heard in every day conversation (for those of you who thought this was strictly a computer based rant, you know that I am probably the most illiterate person with a computer ever!)
Sup? (kinda seems to me like someone should go back to the 1st grade and learn how to spell "soup".)
4eva (forever? or for Eva? I dunno.)
<3333333333333333 etc. (usually used to describe something like shoes... which leads me to think... o.0)
fo sho (just read it and say it in your head and you'll know what I'm talking about)
j/k (how hard is it to type out "just kidding" or "kidding"?)
roflmao (if you don't want to type out "rolling on floor laughing my ass off" then think of something shorter.)
That's just a few, chances are good that there will be more later on.
Anyway, in other news, I just got finished playing football. The first game, my team won 35-14. The second time we had to stage a comeback and win 57-56. Both games proved a bit difficult, the first one with the score deadlocked at 14 for most of the game and the second one involved a 43 point comeback (and a 2 point conversion, which is especially difficult). So, I am battered everywhere, being slammed on the ground, against my house, into inanimate objects in the yard (aka a tree and an air conditioning unit). But yeah, we're 2-0. Take that Junior's team, you little bastards!
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| I haven't used Xanga in a long time. A couple years ago I became disillusioned by MySpace, but now, MySpace is getting kinda old... somewhat repetitive, so I think I'm just going to go back to the symptom that got me into blogging in the first place. I'm a traitor to the MySpace organization. Ha!
The Super Bowl was pretty interesting yesterday. It was all in all a good game. We had the Chicago Bears, being in their first Super Bowl in 20 years, with a Kick Returner who has been known to break through blocks and score without being touched and a hot head quarterback with something to prove. The Colts also hadn't been in over 20 years, with a defense that has a hell of a time defending against the run and a quarterback who needs a Super Bowl to have his Hall Of Fame worthy career enshrined in Canton. The Colts won 29-17.
I was rooting for the Bears, but the Colts played hard, so you have to respect that. Turnovers played a huge factor, the Bears having 5 and the Colts having 4. They were playing in Miami, and it was raining hard for the entire duration of the game. Makes for an exciting evening of football, I think.
Watching this game kind of made me think about the human desire to win. Both teams pushed their bodies to the limit (sometimes even beyond) and made huge plays. Frustrated by turnovers and the weather, you could tell by the middle of the 3rd quarter that every player in Miami were simply exhausted. Cedric Benson was hurt at the end of the first quarter, throwing out Chicago's heavily successful double tailback strikes. Chicago just never recovered.
But all in all, a fabulous game. Peyton Manning got the ring (and the MVP), so the way I look at it, his bust in Canton is pretty much assured. Good for him.
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