Hodge Podge

I'm not bothered when someone messes up with the complicated grammatical rules, like the difference between "awhile", which is an adverb and "a while", which is used when "while" is an object. It's when people get the simple rules, the ones that you were taught in grade school, wrong. For example, "cannot" is one word; there are three different varieties of the word "to" - two (the number), too (indicating excess or in addition; also), and to (the preposition); and, quiet and quite are two entirely different words with two entirely different meanings.

The little things are the ones that just drive me insane, but what bothers me even more is when it is not a one time occurrence. It is not like the person misspelled it once, oops, whatever. They actually consistently get it wrong, and show no signs of ever improving. It just boggles my mind. How do these people hold a steady job? They have college degrees? What institution possibly granted them the degree and can I petition to have it revoked? Alright, so it's not that bad, but the more I see of it, the more it just bugs the bejeebers out of me. So much so that I end up ranting about it on my own blog. Sad.

Moving on to a much more ... uplifting subject, I learned something about Flickr yesterday from reading Chris' blog. Apparently, if you search through Flickr correctly you can find all sorts of exceptionally naughty pictures. Not only that, people have created Websites devoted to finding and hosting just these types of pictures! For example, "flickrbooty, chicksnbreasts, and flickrchicks. I was astounded. I had thought Flickr's only real purpose was so that I could scope out beautiful scarlet haired female bloggers, in search of those haunting eyes and adorable freckles, but no, there's an even more exciting, if slightly unnerving, use!

My weekend lacked all excitement as Dennis the Menace ruined all my plans. It was terrible. Not only that, I didn't even get any rain after Friday, except on Saturday night. So it wasn't like I could use the rain as an excuse for the lazy weekend. I did experience the most unbearable humidity in recent memory, and watched several really good movies, including "The Astronaut's Wife" (which I thought would suck), "Pleasantville", "Monster" (it was the first movie in which I didn't think Charlize was hot), and "Fantastic 4" (of course). I also played some pool at this local little spot that a friend of mine and I discovered about a month ago. Excellent atmosphere. Overall, however, my weekend left a lot to be desired.