Another Name for Your Pinky Finger is Wanus.
I've been reading Chuck Palahniuk a lot lately--enough to remember how to spell Palahniuk without looking it up. I think it's Amanda Crawfords fault.
My computer self-destructed last night. The AC adapter port finally wiggled itself out of commission. I have never owned a computer that didn't malfunction on a regular basis.
Once, our old family computer needed a replacement monitor. The company sent us one that had a high-pitched squeak which would not stop unless you smacked the thing on the side. Even then the noise was only held off for a few minutes at most. I learned never to buy a Gateway again.
The computer after that had a bad habit of destroying any non-vital component you stuck inside it (i.e. modems, sound cards, floppy drives, CD-rom drives, etc.) I learned never to buy a Compaq again.
Now, my HP is broken at the most basic level. I've learned never to buy a computer from a major company again.
I'd be two steps ahead of the game if I'd listened to Caleb Sweeney's brilliant report on building your own computer--way back in the day, in Mrs. VanLear's english class. Hewlett Packard is sending FedEx tomorrow to come and take my computer back. I held a lighter to the port and told them over the phone that the port had overheated, then melted. Hopefully they won't consider it to be customer damage and I'll get the repair/replacement for free.
On another note, Darryl Mack still owes me ten dollars. We went down to the Student Services building to put my last forty tax-return dollars on my meal card so I could eat. Apparently, Darryl wasn't as much of an expert on the deposit machines as he led on, since the money was put on my Passport account instead of my Flex plan. When I found out, I went back to the Student Services building to try and get it moved. The woman behind the counter made a big stink about how I'd already spent a little of it and how they probably wouldn't be able to move it.
Then I filled out the "Special Request Form."
Today I got an email from the woman-in-charge and my money was moved over into my flex plan. This may be one of the most boring updates I've ever written. I hope you scanned over it. To make up for it:
More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole.
People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.
A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage where he was forced to work because he could not afford to rent an art studio.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf.
The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."
Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
Charlie Brown's dad was a barber.
Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks.
Frank Baum, writer of "The Wizard of Oz", looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence, "Oz."
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
On average, every chocolate bar contains at least three insect legs.
Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics.