Wildilocks Can Has Journal?

Warning: have a box of tissues handy, and don’t watch this anywhere you wouldn’t be comfortable with tears streaming down your face.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,850,000 for rediculous Did you mean: ridiculous

Results 1 - 10 of about 35,500,000 for ridiculous [definition]

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,580,000 for definatly Did you mean: definitely

Results 1 - 10 of about 142,000,000 for definitely [definition]

These results tell me two things:

1) Illiteracy is becoming rampant, MILLIONS of people are using these misspellings and many more [though these two in particular are becoming terrifyingly common], which means many people are starting to think that they are actually correct. If it were simply language morphing, I’d be more okay with it, but it’s not like these words are in some way a better representation of a concept, an interesting new take on something, a cultural shift. They are, simply, wrong, and come from misinterpretation of lazy verbal pronunciation.

2) People aren’t pointing out their errors often enough because we’re too damn polite and don’t want to offend our friends. I don’t really know what to do about this

So posted a few days ago about a new browser game he’s been playing, which I promptly got myself addicted to. It’s a trading based world-building game which is not a huge timesuck and is really rather quaint. If you have the potential to be interested in such things, check out Nile Online and let me know who you are. When you start off you have to work out trade via the messageboards or personal communication, until you have your own ship, which can take a while to source.

My Pharoah name is Qetesh, my first city is Qeteshtan, in the nome of Settept. I have an Emerald empire slowly building!

I seriously was nervous that there would be a way they would rig this election. I’m so relieved it’s been such a strong result to Obama. I’ve shed a few tears actually, it’s been that hard to believe it’s actually true.

This means, btw, that there’s a chance may come to Burning Man next year. SQUEE!

Unfortunately, Prop 8 - California, shame on you. That’s just so not the positive reinforcement to such a huge victory, especially in CA. I guess it will be a while til we see a gay president, huh?

Watched Idiocracy tonight with teh boy, and was discomfited at times by a chilling sense of foreboding, and I couldn’t help thinking of something I’d seen/listened to earlier that day - the Sarah Palin prank call. Embarrassing really has reached a new level, and it’s frankly terrifying that someone THAT stupid is a VPC…

of course, something that is utterly missing from our potential stupid future seems to be videos of cats doing stupid things, so I’m going to hope there’s nothing fundamentally worrying about my gales of laughter at these two gems:

… in other news, myself and da boy have both been a bit poorly. I got [I think] food poisoning a couple weeks back and my body hasn’t been quite right since it seems, and have tried to do stuff and keep up with busy schedule, then fallen over useless the next day, repeatedly during this time. Apologies for having been occasionally flaky as a result… want to be back to my usual self shortly as there is much to be done over the next week and a half before heading to Perth for 2 1/2 weeks!