sometimes i wish i was a good writer so i could pen a semi-autobiographical novel or a memoir. everyone probably thinks this about themselves, but sometimes i really do think that some of the happenstances in my life would make great fodder for a novel/movie/drama (korean style, of course! haha). if only i could get it down on paper (or screen/monitor, since i would most likely type up this hypothetical manuscript), i feel like i could finally lay to rest my financial woes and live a comfortable life of sitting around at home reading whatever i wanted all day and every day. i mean, all the drama i experienced in just my college life alone could probably make an entertaining novella, but if you throw in my childhood, and maybe even my family history based on the oral history passed down to me from my paternal grandparents, you'd have a pretty interesting read.
alas (for me, but maybe luckily for you, dear reader), i realize that i haven't been bestowed with the gift for deftly manipulating words, and it's a little too early to start penning my memoir just yet. after all, i feel like i haven't achieved anything substantial that would be worth reading (other than somehow getting myself embroiled in drama constantly, consistently, continuously, etc.), and as of now i'm still waiting for the rest of my life to be written. at the (perhaps-not-so-) tender age of 22, i feel it's a little presumptuous of me to assume people will want to read about my life experiences and reflections, so the world will be spared my memoir/semi-autobiographical novel for now. however, until then, i am going to faithfully record events in my life, both extraordinary and mundane, through various outlets (this blog, my cyworld diary, my paper journal) in hopes that one day i will have enough experience, material, and talent to publish my own life story.
if you've somehow managed to read through all the rambling and reach this point, i commend you. bravo, reader, bravo.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Candid Shots: Top 8 Photos from my Cell Phone
inspired by my dear friend suma, i have decided to treat my readers (all of two people, it seems) to a sampling of my awesome mobile photography skills. and by awesome, i mean low-quality, not very artistic, spur-of-the-moment-because-i-found-it-amusing shots.
why it's in my top 8: i thought it was supposed to say "fragile goods," so i thought this was hilarious. turns out (i think, if i remember correctly...correct me if i'm wrong, suma!) that the box actually was used for storing figurines of gods. hey, even gods are vulnerable...(i think i'm coming off on this blog as being very irreverent and blasphemous; i promise i'm not in real life, haha)
taken: 302 revolution drive, peachtree city, GAwhy it's in my top 8: 2 reasons, really. #1- i miss my parents. #2- my mom is wearing a babushka, which ups this photo's awesome factor to the 23487235766th power.
taken: on the subway in good old new york, new yorkwhy it's in my top 8: so this is where i get all sappy and cliche...although my sister and i are both horrible at keeping in touch, she's still my best friend and i miss her. it may sound cold, but friends come and go in my life; part of it is me moving around so much, and part of it is me being horrible at keeping in touch, but my sister will always be in my life. guess blood is thicker than water (that's a really weird saying, now that i think about it...who came up with it? vampires?).
taken: on my way to the ROK. i couldn't remember if this is an aerial view of the states, japan, or korea, but a look at the timestamp of the photo has led me to deduce that it must have been either korea or japan. ohh~~ technology (as my boyfriend always likes to say)
why it's in my top 8: i don't know if my love for korea is because there's just something about my motherland that speaks to the essential korean in me (as much as i try to shy away from essentialism, i don't know how else to describe this), or if it's because i'm a huge escapist and the half year i spent there was the best form of escapism. regardless of the reason why, i'm constantly nostalgic for a country i've only known in my toddlerhood and for a very brief time almost 2 years ago, so of course anything that has to do with korea would show up on this list.
taken: petco in peachtree city, GA
why it's in my top 8: please. take a look at the dog/quasi-human-child thing and tell me why it's in my top 8. he/she/it is wearing a freaking shirt and has little hair (fur?) clips in its hair (fur? ahhhh this is confusing me...). at first glance i thought it was a child, and then i did a major double-take because something looked so OFF about it. it freaks me out how quasi-human it looks...
taken: target in peachtree city, GA (actually in the same shopping complex/area as the petco above)
why it's in my top 8: if you know me pretty well, you know i love pugs. i think they're the cutest dogs ever; maybe it's because of a pug named Jjangu i knew when i lived in new york. when he'd do something bad, his owners would chastise him and tell him to go sit in his time-out corner and put his front paws up in the air (this is a common form of punishment in korean culture).
(something like this. bonus picture!)
in no particular order:
taken: dewitt wallace library, macalester college, st. paul, MN
why it's in my top 8: gandalf. guitar hero. totally random location. enough said.
why it's in my top 8: i thought it was supposed to say "fragile goods," so i thought this was hilarious. turns out (i think, if i remember correctly...correct me if i'm wrong, suma!) that the box actually was used for storing figurines of gods. hey, even gods are vulnerable...(i think i'm coming off on this blog as being very irreverent and blasphemous; i promise i'm not in real life, haha)
taken: 302 revolution drive, peachtree city, GA
taken: national press building, washington d.c.
why it's in my top 8: i took this on one of my excursions around our nation's great capital (this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek; facetiousness doesn't really translate well in blogging, does it?) when i went to D.C. to help plan/prepare/run the PowerShift 2009 conference. one of my errands on my first day there was to go to the national press building to distribute media advisories and press releases. now, if you know me in the least, you'll know that i have a HORRIBLE sense of direction, and although i had google mapped it beforehand i still managed to get lost (it wouldn't have been like me if i didn't!). after about 10 minutes of wandering and looking for people who looked nice enough to help me get my bearings straight, i fortuitiously stumbled in front of the aforementioned building (i feel like that happens a lot to me; i must be a lucky person). anyway, this photo is in my top 8 because: a) i'm proud that i found it all by myself (with a little help from google maps), b) partly to show off that i've been to the national press building, which is probably not a big deal to most people, but to me it is. am i totally exposing my provinciality or what? and c) for someone who lists photography as her interest and one-time passion, i sure took an awful shot. i couldn't even fit the entire sign in the frame, and if you guessed that that's my finger taking up a ridiculous amount of space in the bottom half of the shot, you're right. so clearly, by "awful" i actually mean "awesome.
taken: on the subway in good old new york, new york taken: on my way to the ROK. i couldn't remember if this is an aerial view of the states, japan, or korea, but a look at the timestamp of the photo has led me to deduce that it must have been either korea or japan. ohh~~ technology (as my boyfriend always likes to say)
why it's in my top 8: please. take a look at the dog/quasi-human-child thing and tell me why it's in my top 8. he/she/it is wearing a freaking shirt and has little hair (fur?) clips in its hair (fur? ahhhh this is confusing me...). at first glance i thought it was a child, and then i did a major double-take because something looked so OFF about it. it freaks me out how quasi-human it looks...
taken: target in peachtree city, GA (actually in the same shopping complex/area as the petco above)why it's in my top 8: if you know me pretty well, you know i love pugs. i think they're the cutest dogs ever; maybe it's because of a pug named Jjangu i knew when i lived in new york. when he'd do something bad, his owners would chastise him and tell him to go sit in his time-out corner and put his front paws up in the air (this is a common form of punishment in korean culture).
(something like this. bonus picture!)it was endearing enough that jjangu would actually go to his corner and do this, but all the while (i kid you not) he would cry these huge crocodile tears and whimper; since then i've been in love with pugs. oh, and then there's my minor love of poop, as mentioned in my previous post, haha. pugs + poop = top 8 photo compilation material.
***(note: i actually started this post over a month ago, and i've finally finished it now (now being 11/21/2009)...speaks volumes about my productivity and motivation lately)***
***(note: i actually started this post over a month ago, and i've finally finished it now (now being 11/21/2009)...speaks volumes about my productivity and motivation lately)***
Friday, October 2, 2009
Sticking it to The Man
another productive day at work...i either need to sleep with the HotDocs manual under my pillow and hope i learn it inside, backwards, forwards and out through osmosis, or start insisting to people that the information i request is TIME SENSITIVE. i've been sitting around since 8:40 this morning, waiting for someone to get back to me on how to fix my footer in an expungement form. in the meantime, i have become a solitaire player extraordinaire; i have won about 35 games so far, 20 of which were under 2 minutes. on the one hand, i feel guilty because i'm being funded by the government to help the low-income community and fight poverty, not sit in my office and play solitaire. on the other hand, it's not my fault that i'm stuck on one part, and my supervisor has run out of things for me to do. plus it's awesome to think that government funding (and probably taxpayers' hard-earned money, oops) is helping me improve my speed-solitaire skills. you're welcome, america. on a completely unrelated note, i've had the thong song stuck in my head all day, and i've noticed that i play faster on solitaire when i'm singing the song in my head. don't ask.
i've noticed a trend where random people with legal issues somehow get MY extension number and ask me for legal advice. i have no idea how these people are directed to me, specifically, but it's kind of fun to listen to their stories. for instance, today i spoke to a poor, distraught man from minot, ND, by way of france. the first thing he asked me was if i spoke french, and i had to disappoint him by saying that i could only speak spanish, and very brokenly at that. i've always wanted to learn french (along with about 8 other languages), and i'd never wanted to be a polyglot more in my life than at that moment. anyhow, he explained his situation to me in his broken, heavily accented english, while i asked about 29384723 (probably stupid) questions because i couldn't really understand what he was saying. something about a green card and being stuck in france after visiting his sick mother and not having an address in the states because, and i quote verbatim, "napoleon has died." i was very confused and on the verge of laughter because he sounded so forlorn, and i thought it was ridiculous that this frenchman was mourning the death of a compatriot who died over 200 years ago and probably had no bearing on his inability to return to the states. turns out that "napoleon" was the friend he had been living with in the states, and his death was the reason why our frenchman couldn't return. oops, good thing i held in my laughter...i eventually had to forward him to another law org./firm, but for some reason talking to him made my day.
now i'm sitting here updating my blog, even though i'm pretty sure no one reads it. it gives me something to do, though, and since i'm typing away on my computer, everyone who walks by my office thinks i'm hard at work and putting those government dollars to good use. yay.
i've noticed a trend where random people with legal issues somehow get MY extension number and ask me for legal advice. i have no idea how these people are directed to me, specifically, but it's kind of fun to listen to their stories. for instance, today i spoke to a poor, distraught man from minot, ND, by way of france. the first thing he asked me was if i spoke french, and i had to disappoint him by saying that i could only speak spanish, and very brokenly at that. i've always wanted to learn french (along with about 8 other languages), and i'd never wanted to be a polyglot more in my life than at that moment. anyhow, he explained his situation to me in his broken, heavily accented english, while i asked about 29384723 (probably stupid) questions because i couldn't really understand what he was saying. something about a green card and being stuck in france after visiting his sick mother and not having an address in the states because, and i quote verbatim, "napoleon has died." i was very confused and on the verge of laughter because he sounded so forlorn, and i thought it was ridiculous that this frenchman was mourning the death of a compatriot who died over 200 years ago and probably had no bearing on his inability to return to the states. turns out that "napoleon" was the friend he had been living with in the states, and his death was the reason why our frenchman couldn't return. oops, good thing i held in my laughter...i eventually had to forward him to another law org./firm, but for some reason talking to him made my day.
now i'm sitting here updating my blog, even though i'm pretty sure no one reads it. it gives me something to do, though, and since i'm typing away on my computer, everyone who walks by my office thinks i'm hard at work and putting those government dollars to good use. yay.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Google vs. Yahoo
my supervisor isn't at work today, and i can't get any work done because i'm running into this weird glitch in HotDocs and no one on the listserv knows how to solve the problem. i probably shouldn't have come into work because i'm being just as productive here in the office as i would have been in my bed, but i didn't want to use up a sick/vacation day so i dragged myself in despite the chill outside (i hate how MN seems to skip over autumn, my favorite season, and go straight to winter).
anyway, i've been incredibly bored, so rather than writing letters or reading books, i've been spending my time reading MLIA in hopes of catching myself up by reading all 590-some pages (i'm at 149 right now). i've noticed a trend of people pitting google and yahoo against each other using the auto-suggestions each respective search engine comes up with when they enter random words or phrases, and they all report google coming out on top. i wanted to see if this reporting was accurate, so i decided to test it out myself. now, don't get me wrong; i'm definitely a google-fan and haven't used yahoo since about 8th grade, but for the sake of statistical honesty/accuracy (well, mostly boredom) i decided to sacrifice my precious time for the truth. here is what i found:
round 1
entry: "why is my..."
google: why is my poop green?
yahoo: why is my computer so slow?
for those of you who know me, it was a running joke among my friends that i had an affinity for poop. in reality, i (being immature) just like(d) the signifier rather than the signified, but i said "poop" and "poopsicle" so much that it prompted one of my friends to create a facebook group in my honor, called "esther hearts poop SOOOOOOOOO hard." it was funny, until random people i didn't know (or acquaintances who weren't in on the joke) started joining. however, the group was short-lived since someone, who remains a mystery even to this day (it really wasn't me!), reported the group and my friend received a very curt reprimand from facebook. luckily my/its legacy lives on in the kenyon chapter of the group, which still boasts a grand total of 6 members. this is pretty impressive, since i have never been to kenyon and i've only met 1 of the group members (said group member is the best friend of the friend who created the original group). anyway, there is a reason why i'm telling this story (although i do have a penchance for telling tangential stories that have no point), and the reason is this: purely for the mention of "poop," i have to side with google on this one.
verdict: google
round 2
entry: "meaning of life is..."
google: meaning of life is 42
yahoo: no suggestions
google not only wins by default, since yahoo couldn't even complete the auto-suggestion, but also because of the cryptic answer. what does that even mean? the meaning of life is 42...i'll be mulling over that for the next 20 years (by then i will be 42, and maybe i'll have an epiphany of what this means, and also what the meaning of life is).
verdict: google
round 3
entry: "bacon is..."
google: bacon is my enemy
yahoo: bacon is a vegetable
it was hard to decide who won this round, because both suggestions are equally ridiculous. my hypothesis is that google is used by people trying to eat healthy, while yahoo is used by bacon aficionados who are trying to justify that their love for bacon is healthy.
verdict: tie
round 4
entry: "help! my..."
google: help my girlfriend is a pregnant virgin
yahoo: help my family
i don't think i have to spell out for you who the winner of this round is (but i will anyway). either google is frequented by joseph, the surrogate father of Jesus (is this blasphemous? oops), or by poor gullible, foolish boys who have most likely been cuckolded.
verdict: google
round 5
entry: "hell is..."
google: hell is other people
yahoo: hell is real
once again, a tough choice. google's answer speaks to the hobbesian/misanthrope in me, who believes that people can be unbelievably cruel and that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short." however, yahoo's answer appeals to my christian sensibilities and i fear that if i declare yahoo the loser, i will be sent to hell as punishment (if i'm not going there in a handbasket already).
verdict: tie
round 6
entry: "how to tell if your..."
google: how to tell if your cat is trying to kill you
yahoo: how to tell if your husband is cheating
while yahoo's suggestion may be more practical and have real-life implications, i like google's better purely on the grounds of my possession of a psycho kitten, and the fact that i don't have a husband. yes, i am that self-centered.
verdict: google
round 7
entry: "i like to..."
google: i like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur
yahoo: i like to move it
as much as i like to move it, hands down, no questions asked, google wins. also, i think the auto-suggestion may be an homage to MLIA, so bonus points for that.
verdict: google
round 8
entry: "[respective search engine] is..."
google: google is going to take over the world
yahoo: yahoo is stupid
i can't tell if yahoo is being self-deprecating or if a lot of people just go to yahoo and type that in the search bar. if the latter case is true, what are they doing on yahoo in the first place? my extreme hunger right now is hindering my ability to hypothesize why this is...but yeah, google wins again. bravo for having ambitions, google.
verdict: google
i'm pretty anal about things, so i would have liked to continue to round 10, but in the interest of appeasing my extreme hunger and the fact that i have to leave in 10 minutes to get my food stamps (one of the perks of being an AmeriCorps VISTA?), i have decided to stop at 8. plus in sino-based culture, 8 is a lucky number :).
FINAL VERDICT: google-8, yahoo-2 (and not even full-fledged wins, at that)
i guess the MLIA-ers were onto something...google is more awesome than yahoo.
anyway, i've been incredibly bored, so rather than writing letters or reading books, i've been spending my time reading MLIA in hopes of catching myself up by reading all 590-some pages (i'm at 149 right now). i've noticed a trend of people pitting google and yahoo against each other using the auto-suggestions each respective search engine comes up with when they enter random words or phrases, and they all report google coming out on top. i wanted to see if this reporting was accurate, so i decided to test it out myself. now, don't get me wrong; i'm definitely a google-fan and haven't used yahoo since about 8th grade, but for the sake of statistical honesty/accuracy (well, mostly boredom) i decided to sacrifice my precious time for the truth. here is what i found:
round 1
entry: "why is my..."
google: why is my poop green?
yahoo: why is my computer so slow?
for those of you who know me, it was a running joke among my friends that i had an affinity for poop. in reality, i (being immature) just like(d) the signifier rather than the signified, but i said "poop" and "poopsicle" so much that it prompted one of my friends to create a facebook group in my honor, called "esther hearts poop SOOOOOOOOO hard." it was funny, until random people i didn't know (or acquaintances who weren't in on the joke) started joining. however, the group was short-lived since someone, who remains a mystery even to this day (it really wasn't me!), reported the group and my friend received a very curt reprimand from facebook. luckily my/its legacy lives on in the kenyon chapter of the group, which still boasts a grand total of 6 members. this is pretty impressive, since i have never been to kenyon and i've only met 1 of the group members (said group member is the best friend of the friend who created the original group). anyway, there is a reason why i'm telling this story (although i do have a penchance for telling tangential stories that have no point), and the reason is this: purely for the mention of "poop," i have to side with google on this one.
verdict: google
round 2
entry: "meaning of life is..."
google: meaning of life is 42
yahoo: no suggestions
google not only wins by default, since yahoo couldn't even complete the auto-suggestion, but also because of the cryptic answer. what does that even mean? the meaning of life is 42...i'll be mulling over that for the next 20 years (by then i will be 42, and maybe i'll have an epiphany of what this means, and also what the meaning of life is).
verdict: google
round 3
entry: "bacon is..."
google: bacon is my enemy
yahoo: bacon is a vegetable
it was hard to decide who won this round, because both suggestions are equally ridiculous. my hypothesis is that google is used by people trying to eat healthy, while yahoo is used by bacon aficionados who are trying to justify that their love for bacon is healthy.
verdict: tie
round 4
entry: "help! my..."
google: help my girlfriend is a pregnant virgin
yahoo: help my family
i don't think i have to spell out for you who the winner of this round is (but i will anyway). either google is frequented by joseph, the surrogate father of Jesus (is this blasphemous? oops), or by poor gullible, foolish boys who have most likely been cuckolded.
verdict: google
round 5
entry: "hell is..."
google: hell is other people
yahoo: hell is real
once again, a tough choice. google's answer speaks to the hobbesian/misanthrope in me, who believes that people can be unbelievably cruel and that life in the state of nature is "nasty, brutish, and short." however, yahoo's answer appeals to my christian sensibilities and i fear that if i declare yahoo the loser, i will be sent to hell as punishment (if i'm not going there in a handbasket already).
verdict: tie
round 6
entry: "how to tell if your..."
google: how to tell if your cat is trying to kill you
yahoo: how to tell if your husband is cheating
while yahoo's suggestion may be more practical and have real-life implications, i like google's better purely on the grounds of my possession of a psycho kitten, and the fact that i don't have a husband. yes, i am that self-centered.
verdict: google
round 7
entry: "i like to..."
google: i like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur
yahoo: i like to move it
as much as i like to move it, hands down, no questions asked, google wins. also, i think the auto-suggestion may be an homage to MLIA, so bonus points for that.
verdict: google
round 8
entry: "[respective search engine] is..."
google: google is going to take over the world
yahoo: yahoo is stupid
i can't tell if yahoo is being self-deprecating or if a lot of people just go to yahoo and type that in the search bar. if the latter case is true, what are they doing on yahoo in the first place? my extreme hunger right now is hindering my ability to hypothesize why this is...but yeah, google wins again. bravo for having ambitions, google.
verdict: google
i'm pretty anal about things, so i would have liked to continue to round 10, but in the interest of appeasing my extreme hunger and the fact that i have to leave in 10 minutes to get my food stamps (one of the perks of being an AmeriCorps VISTA?), i have decided to stop at 8. plus in sino-based culture, 8 is a lucky number :).
FINAL VERDICT: google-8, yahoo-2 (and not even full-fledged wins, at that)
i guess the MLIA-ers were onto something...google is more awesome than yahoo.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
5 internet gems i stumbled upon today
i seem to have a problem where i can't tear myself away from the computer, even though i have so many other things to keep me occupied. so, per usual, i was surfing the internet and through reading MLIA (bonus! thanks, michelle) i stumbled upon a couple of gems. in no particular order:
1. a site claiming to translate any word from english to parseltongue. as soon as you enter in a word, it plays a sound recording of what is supposed to be that word in parseltongue. since i believe J.K. Rowling didn't pull a Tolkien and spend an epic amount of time developing her imaginary language, i don't know who actually took the time to develop these "words" and record them, but they must have been very bored. maybe i should start doing something similar, to stave off the ennui i feel these days. on a related note, if you google "how to speak parseltongue," one of the results leads you to a site where people discuss how to learn/speak parseltongue and actually communicate with snakes. i have no idea if these people are being serious, but i'd like to think they are because it makes me laugh (let's not mention the fact that i actually googled this).
2. the steampunk subculture. i can't remember how i stumbled upon this one, but i had been curious about it for a while. my first exposure came through playing vampire wars (omg, why am i such a geek?), because they have different steampunk fashion items to dress your avatar. anyway, somehow i ended up on the wikipedia page for steampunk, and after reading the article for it, i have to say that it seems like a pretty badass movement.
i totally want one of these!
1. a site claiming to translate any word from english to parseltongue. as soon as you enter in a word, it plays a sound recording of what is supposed to be that word in parseltongue. since i believe J.K. Rowling didn't pull a Tolkien and spend an epic amount of time developing her imaginary language, i don't know who actually took the time to develop these "words" and record them, but they must have been very bored. maybe i should start doing something similar, to stave off the ennui i feel these days. on a related note, if you google "how to speak parseltongue," one of the results leads you to a site where people discuss how to learn/speak parseltongue and actually communicate with snakes. i have no idea if these people are being serious, but i'd like to think they are because it makes me laugh (let's not mention the fact that i actually googled this).
2. the steampunk subculture. i can't remember how i stumbled upon this one, but i had been curious about it for a while. my first exposure came through playing vampire wars (omg, why am i such a geek?), because they have different steampunk fashion items to dress your avatar. anyway, somehow i ended up on the wikipedia page for steampunk, and after reading the article for it, i have to say that it seems like a pretty badass movement.
i totally want one of these!3. cleverbot. i think i spent at least a good half hour discussing with this AI why life is so boring, and why it (he? she? do AIs transcend gender designation and all the signifiers that are inherently tied with the assignment of gender? sorry, my parenthetical thoughts are random and sometimes completely derail me from my original train of thought) dislikes eggs. i should have asked if it/he/she/all of the above meant "eggs" as in the embryonic state which we sometimes eat, or the character from true blood. either way, i'm curious why cleverbot dislikes eggs, but not enough to go back and ask. maybe when i'm bored at work tomorrow...
4. the language preference setting on facebook. did you know that if you go to settings and click on the language tab, you can change your language preferences to not only dozens and dozens of "real" languages, but also some unique and interesting ones such as esperanto (please don't hurt me, william shatner!), pirate (in english, of course), 1337 (leet, for you n00bz) speak, and so on? i had fun changing my language preferences to pirate and leet...under the pirate setting "mobile" becomes "pocket parrot." that just might have made my day.
- "t311 j00r m8z 7h47 F4c3b00k 15 1n l33t sp34k."
5. howmanyofme. have you ever wondered how many people in the u.s. share your name? well, fear not, because there is a website that reveals how many name twins you have in the u.s. it gives you statistics with your first name and last name separately, and then your full name. apparently, there are 255,222 people with the name "esther" in the states, 99.9% of whom are female. i am incredibly curious to find the poor .1% named "esther" who are male. i am also curious about how many of these esthers are either over the age of 70, korean/korean-american, or maybe even both. other than the somewhat narcissistic fun of looking up your own name, it's also fun to look up names of celebrities, or even fictional characters (i think harry potter was at the top of their list of most searched famous names).
in conclusion, i am a huge dork and a loser lost in the endless treasure trove that is the worldwide web. ok, time for sleep now.
4. the language preference setting on facebook. did you know that if you go to settings and click on the language tab, you can change your language preferences to not only dozens and dozens of "real" languages, but also some unique and interesting ones such as esperanto (please don't hurt me, william shatner!), pirate (in english, of course), 1337 (leet, for you n00bz) speak, and so on? i had fun changing my language preferences to pirate and leet...under the pirate setting "mobile" becomes "pocket parrot." that just might have made my day.
- "t311 j00r m8z 7h47 F4c3b00k 15 1n l33t sp34k."
5. howmanyofme. have you ever wondered how many people in the u.s. share your name? well, fear not, because there is a website that reveals how many name twins you have in the u.s. it gives you statistics with your first name and last name separately, and then your full name. apparently, there are 255,222 people with the name "esther" in the states, 99.9% of whom are female. i am incredibly curious to find the poor .1% named "esther" who are male. i am also curious about how many of these esthers are either over the age of 70, korean/korean-american, or maybe even both. other than the somewhat narcissistic fun of looking up your own name, it's also fun to look up names of celebrities, or even fictional characters (i think harry potter was at the top of their list of most searched famous names).
in conclusion, i am a huge dork and a loser lost in the endless treasure trove that is the worldwide web. ok, time for sleep now.
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