Blogging

Recently, for her senior project, my sister decided to keep a blog for her senior project, detailing the adventure of maybe getting a children's book published (or maybe not). I'm wondering myself how she'll get a book published when she can't even capitalize her "I's", but who knows? Maybe our next generation will be one that knows texting as their first language.

Another thing I immediately noticed with my sister's blog is that she took full advantage of the customization feature provided by Blogger, spending nearly an entire day playing with it (and nearly earning a no-life shoutout). I realized that I... haven't spent much time customizing my blog, so you may see some changes around here in the next few days. Maybe you're already seeing them.

I can't help but notice how... limited Blogger's customization options are. I think they need a few suggestions. Here's what I think we should be able to add:

• The TI-Nspire CX: Frankly, these just look cool. I wouldn't mind having one or twenty of these lying around.
• Hangman: Am I the only one that finds Hangman odd? You're telling some innocent little stick figure, "I'm going to execute you just because my friend here is too dim-witted to know the word Syzygy" The main problem with the next generation won't be violent video games, it'll be Hangman.
• Microwave Ovens: I was pretty hungry when I wrote this. But think about it: Wouldn't it be cool to be able to have a microwave oven on your computer? I think that would be pretty gnarly, myself.
• James Earl Jones: I would take full advantage of any tool that would read my posts in the voice of James Earl Jones. Better yet, get James Earl Jones to drop whatever he's doing and come read it live, in person. Optional: Clint Eastwood.
• Quick-Quotes Quills: It beats typing with one hand, like I'm doing right now.
• A Barbershop: I don't know if anyone else out there needs a haircut, but I do. The barbershop should come complete with classic barbershop pole and a barbershop quartet. But wait! Call now and we'll double the offer: Two barbershop poles and a barbershop octet!
• A Drink Machine with Lyndon B. Johnson's Favorite Beverages: If only so people don't end up doing this. We wouldn't want that to happen again.
• A Recorded Message that says, "Go Play Outside": Because really, what are you doing reading this anyway?
  
• Flashing Banner Ad: All the good websites have those contests where people can be the 1,000,000th person to view the page (I win those all the time, I must be really lucky). Why can't we?
• Rebecca Black: I can almost guarantee that you'll be seeing her here in the future. As if she hasn't been mocked enough already.
  

Florida

Recently, my high school band took a trip down to Florida, to perform at Disney World. I learned quite a lot on the bus ride down there as well as at Disney and Universals' parks and had a great time. There were several things that really stuck out to me though, which I felt had to be shared.

• Twilight actually has one good point: If writing that bad can be published, I must be a good writer.
• Taco Bell is offering new menu options for Lent, which don't include meat. So, Catholics can still enjoy their favorite meals with the comforting knowledge that they have been unaltered or changed in any way.
• KFC made a huge mistake concerning their restaurants in Kentucky. They could have saved space by just calling them "FC"
• Never ever ride a bus for 50 hours with hormonal teenagers who have been sleep deprived
• If your friend tries to convince you to ride a ride and only answers "You'll see" to any questions about it, agree to ride it. Then at the last moment, jump off the ride and ditch them. You could have better friends.
• I still haven't figured out why Disney sues people so much, they make enough money off of unusually high prices for usually mediocre food.
• If you're on a ride that is extremely terrifying, go ahead, scream your head off. Then, when the ride ends, moonwalk through the exit.
• You should always have sunscreen. But if you forget and get sunburned, you can always go to Universal's Islands of Adventure and pretend you are the newest supervillain, arch-nemesis to sunscreen-man.
• Floridans, like most other people, think of themselves as funny. Given the number of Wizard of Oz jokes made at my group's expense, they clearly aren't.
• Disney and Universal, despite their efforts to be completely different, are in fact exactly the same park.
• Epcot has lots of fun things to see and do. However, don't go during the annual golf tournament.

No Life Shout-out
At this point, I'd like to give a shout-out to someone I met at Disney World who also has no life. To Kevin, who I met in the Japan store at Epcot while reading a Pokedex, you sir, have no life. Congratulations!

No Life Challenge
For those of you heading to Disney World, perhaps over Spring Break, I challenge you to a game of I Spy. On the "it's a small world" ride, you can see an image that bears a very close resemblance to something from the Legend of Zelda games. Can you find it?