Read this and see if you think it is STRANGE…This year we will experience 4 unusual dates…. 1/1/11 – 1/11/11 – 11/1/11 – 11/11/11 !! NOW figure this out…. take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be this year & post what you get……… “I got 111!” AND YOU WILL TOO!!! COPY AND PASTE TO SEE WHAT YOUR FRIENDS WILL GET AND WHAT THEY THINK IT MEANS!!

OMG! 76+35 does = 111 – what does it mean?!!1!11!!??

There are actually a lot of people who do think there is some sort cosmic meaning to this phenomenon. I don’t mean to make fun. My brain automatically searches for a mathematical explanation, but it’s quite common for people’s brains to go straight for a mystical explanation.

The reason this happens is pretty simple. We are living in a different century than the one we were born in. (This only works for people born in the 1900s.) So, the last two digits of our birth year + the age we were at the end of that century will equal 100 years, a complete century.

To explain that a bit further, the last two digits of your birth year represents the number of years that passed in that century. (Example, 1976 was 76 years after the beginning of the 20th century.) The age you turned at the end of the century, 2000, represents the remaining years from your birth year to the end of the century. A century is 100 years, so when you add these two numbers, you will get 100. (I was born in 1976 and turned 24 in 2000: 76+24=100.)

Since this is 11 years after the turn of the century, 2011, our birth year + our age this year = 100+11, or 111.

So, the next time you see something like this posted on facebook or being talked about at a party, you can marvel your friends with your smartypantsedness.

As you regular readers have probably read before, Shatter Nicely is an anagram of my name.  I discovered it using a link that was circulating facebook ages ago that gave you the best anagram of your name and I thought it would make a good blog name.

It turns out, it’s not necessarily the best anagram of my name.  There are a bunch of really good anagrams of my name.

Using the Internet Anagram Server, and sifting though the long list of results, I discovered that “earthly insect” and “stretchy alien” are also anagrams of my name.

stretchy alien!

Other anagrams with blog name potential include “Real Synthetic” and “The Scarlet Yin.”

And, if I ever need to apologize to someone for something I did, I can just let them know that Charity Tensel is an anagram of “recently a shit.”  Who can resist an apology that uses an anagram?

Now you go anagram yourself and let me know if you find any good ones.

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So, I started it on blogger because that is really easy to make a private blog on, I already have an account, and I’ve imported two blogs from blogger to wordpress with no problems (both She’s Right and All Things Hold Together started on blogger).

But, this morning as I was posting, I started thinking about all of the wordpress features I am not using, like categories.  My other blogs imported as “uncategorized” which made it clunky to try and use a cloud tag, unless I wanted to go back and categorize years of posts.

Plus, now that wordpress 3.0 is out, I am dying to use it!  Starting a new blog with it will allow me to utilize all of its features from the get go.

What I am wondering is whether or not I should just start the blog on wordpress and how I want to go about doing that.  The two biggest issues are how to make it private and where to put it.  When I finally make my blog public, it will be under my own domain name, which I do not have yet.  I want to be sure I love the title.  As it is, I just decided that I don’t like my working title.  In the meantime, I am not sure where to put the site.  I mean, obviously, I will put it on my server where I have all of my blogs.

I feel like I didn’t really think this through before I started writing, but I only have a handful of posts done, so I want to figure this out now.

Any suggestions?

Any list that has the original 2D side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. is great, in my book.  But even better is the fact that it has the original Legend of Zelda for NES.  I used to love that game when I was a kid.  I have a working SNES console with Super Mario, but Zelda is a game that I do not have.

I have a feeling I am about to waste a lot of time today.

Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test…

Pure Nerd

74 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 22% Dork

Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at OkCupid

It’s true.  I like geeky stuff and I like to think that I am a bit of a geek, but in reality, I am way more of a nerd.  I don’t have the intense knowledge in one area needed to be a geek.  I am fascinated by geeks, though.  That’s why I read sites like GeekDad every day.  But, I am a true nerd.  Yeah, I said it.

March forth on March 4 to speak well, write well, and help others do the same!

The other day, I saw a comment on facebook that read, “It’s my girlfriend and I’s anniversary soon.”  What the heck is that?  I’s isn’t even a word.

It might not have been such a big deal if not for the fact that I heard that same error earlier in the week.

People misuse “me” and “I” all of the time, and it drives me nuts!

I get why people confuse “me” and “I.”  It comes from being corrected as children when they used “me” in a compound subject, such as, “Billy and me are going to the park.”

That is wrong, and it’s great that you say “Billy and I” now, except when you say something like, “Johnny is going to the park with Billy and I.”  No, No, No!  It’s “Billy and me”!

Knowing whether to use “I” or “me” is simple.  Just remove the other person from the sentence.  Would you say, “Me is going to the park” or “Johnny is going to the park with I”?  No, so you don’t use those when Billy is with you, either.

Would you say “Next week is I’s anniversary”?  No, you would say “my.”  So it’s “Next week is Bob’s and my anniversary,” not [shudder] “Bob’s and I’s anniversary.”

While we’re at it, let’s talk about “myself.”  It’s very common for people to use “myself” when they should use “me.”  For example, “The report was prepared by Marcy and myself.”  It does seem to have a more polished sound to it, but it is wrong.  Myself is only to be used reflexively, meaning when you are talking about something you did to yourself.  Like, I exposed myself as an idiot when I misused grammar too often.  Any other time, it’s all about me.  So, “The report was prepared by Marcy and me.”

The next time you have something to say about yourself and someone else, stop and think about how you would say it if you were only talking about yourself.  Would you use “I” or “me”?

Try to make the right choice, and never let the I’s have it.