Forty nine

Today I learned that you can buy fabric "remnants" for cheap at the fabric store. Good news if all you need is a little bit and you don't really care what it is. Yay!

Forty eight

Today I learned how to set up PS2s, DDR, Guitar Hero, the controllers and the projector, and get the games started. And by "learned" I mean, "just did it." It wasn't as hard as I feared, even the projector. Setting up the screen was actually the hardest part...that thing is ghetto. And also I didn't know it existed, which makes everything harder.

Forty seven

LMAO....NC-17, y'all. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Tony Danza.

Urban Dictionary is my go-to for all manner of bizarre sexual jargon. It's a veritable fountain of filth. Have fun clicking in horror for hours.

Forty six

Ok, so: uptown vs downtown (let's leave midtown out of this--it is, I think, only a NY thing anyway). There doesn't seem to be like a definitive, absolute definition for these terms. In one case, they can just be referring to north and south; they can even be relative, ie, if you're going to a restaurant south of where you live, you'd say "let's go downtown," but if you were at your office south of the same restaurant, you'd say "we need to head uptown."

Another explanation according to Wiktionary and Google's definitions is that downtown is the commercial center or "central business district," while uptown is the residential area away from the business center. According to that reasoning, something like Westerville's "uptown" is really a misnomer. I think that people have just taken to sticking the "uptown" title on downtown areas because it sounds more welcoming and less urban and intimidating.

So that's that. I'm kind of sleepy so I maybe didn't look into it as much as I should. Let me know if you have anything to add.

Forty five

Today I finally found a good web site about how to juggle with a partner - http://www.passingdb.com/learning.php - and also found that I can buy clubs on Amazon for a reasonable price. This would be useful information if, hypothetically, I were going to secretly learn how to partner juggle. BUT I'M TOTALLY NOT. Move along...

Forty four

Oh, this is so much better than I could've hoped. The song Mah Na Mah Na (Wikipedia will redirect you from "manamana," haha) originally "debuted as part of [Piero] Umiliani's soundtrack for the Italian softcore pornography movie Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso (Sweden, Heaven and Hell) (1968), a pseudo-documentary film about wild sexual activity and other behavior in Sweden ("Mah Nà Mah Nà" accompanied a scene set in a sauna)."

Yes! Not Muppets...porn! Of course. The two go so well together. See Wikipedia for more information about the song, the Muppets, and other uses.

Haha. Porn.

Forty one, Forty two, Forty three

For starters, I really don't like doing a three-in-one blog. It's totally lazy to get that far behind. In my defense I was pretty busy, especially Saturday. Anyway...on with the learning.

Friday:

Friday's may seem like kind of a cop out, because it isn't technically something I learned, but I'm putting it anyway. Friday I went to the park and walked around one of the trails twice. I'm blogging it because it was a new experience for me (going on a walk like that by myself, plus I had never walked that trail before) and also it was good for me and something out of the ordinary, which is really what this blog is about anyway. Technically I could say I learned something, like the time it takes me to walk that trail or whatever, but I don't feel the need to bullshit anybody like that.

Saturday:

I learned how to activate somebody's library card when they've applied at home. Somebody probably already showed me how to do that, but I forgot. Now I know.

Sunday:

April Fools!