Mankind has always sought to have mastery over time. We have always desired such great and wonderful things as the ability stop aging, or to go back in time and correct huge mistakes. Whether it is by searching for an illusive Fountain of Youth or by driving an awkward looking Irish sports car from the 80’s at exactly 88 miles per hour, man has always been fascinated with the idea of controlling time.

Yet with all the great scientific advances, time has always been the kid in grade school who was considerably more agile than anyone else in your class and was just impossible to catch in freeze tag.

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English speakers have to thank Billy Shakespeare for a lot of stuff. He gave countless amounts of quotes for literary scholars to needless debate for hundreds of years, and was important enough to force himself into many a classroom curriculum. On top of all of that, many spellings and terminologies come from the works of Shakespeare.

During the time Billy was writing, the English language in written form was still very raw, trying to become more like the common Latin-based languages. Those languages were steady in their structure and vocabulary, whereas English was in a wide state of flux. The English speaking world was expanding, and the English speaking people had no idea how to write anything down.

Therefore, Billy and other notable writers during 1500-1699 took matters into their own hands. They either wrote words the way they assumed they would be written, or took them entirely from other languages. Because they did it all without the help of dictionaries, their attempts were just accepted and put into common practice.

They paved the way for the red squiggly Spellcheck line.

Continue reading “Hamlet”

Due to a highly busy and bizarre week, there’s no NEW post today. I don’t like not posting new material every Wednesday, but you’ll have to excuse that every now and then. It won’t become a habit. I can promise that much. However, I did help Mandie Marie write a guest post for Rob Shep yesterday that you should read.

Here is a post from June of last year, which is likely well before you ever started reading this or any site. Enjoy, and don’t forget to check back Friday for a chance to win a ticket to the Killer Tribes Conference!

Angry Birds is a video game that exists solely to remind us of the futility of life. Since it was released for the iPhone in 2009, over 12 million copies have been sold. That’s through the Apple App Store alone. 12 million people willingly paid a few dollars to hurl little wingless birds towards some pigs that look like they went rooting in the wrong sort of ‘shrooms.

Continue reading “Angry Birds (Repost)”