For months, iPhone users have enjoyed the new 107.9 the End App. If you aren't an iPhone user, but still have a smartphone, there is a really good chance that you are feeling left out. I feel your pain. I don't have an iPhone and I want to be a part of the buzz surrounding the new 107.9 the End App.
So here is the thing. I over heard a conversation that I wasn't supposed to hear. Something new is coming for non-iPhone users. I can't say what it is, BUT....I can give you a HUGE hint. How? Well, that leads me to a video that I recently saw.
Watch the video and you should be able to figure out what is coming soon....
Oh yeah, this is 100% legit...there are multiple videos online, but I only recently heard about Shockwave.
If you have been calling the new year "twenty-ten" you have been saying it wrong.
According to the National Association of Good Grammar, the new year and all of the rest of the years in this century should be said "two thousand and ten", "two thousand and eleven", etc.
Here is an article from the SF Chronicle:
2010: 'Twenty ten' vs. 'two thousand ten'
How do you say "2010"?
Coming off of "two thousand nine," you'll probably say "two thousand ten." In fact, 4 out of 5 YouTube videos randomly reviewed by The Chronicle have people pronouncing it that way.
But you would be wrong, so wrong, according to the National Association of Good Grammar.
"NAGG has decided to step in and decree that (2010) should officially be pronounced 'twenty ten,' and all subsequent years should be pronounced as 'twenty eleven,' 'twenty twelve,' etc.," proclaims the association's news release.
The National Association of Good Grammar - essentially a guy named Tom Torriglia and some friends who also paid attention in English class - say people have been mispronouncing the year for 10 years.
"NAGG is here to put everybody back on the correct path," Torriglia said by phone from his home in San Francisco. "We lost the battle when we went from 1999 to 2000 - but now we're hoping to win the war."
The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along, he said, pointing out that every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something."
" 'Twenty' follows 'nineteen.' 'Two thousand' does not follow 'nineteen.' It's logical."
Fighting for grammar
Companies pay Torriglia, who has written technical manuals for two decades, to be logical and clear in explaining the least clear concepts, like how to use their own computer software. He's also taught writing to aspiring technical writers and to junior college students.
Torriglia created NAGG in 1986 when he found himself calling publications about their grammatically incorrect ads.
"I would nag them," he said.
Torriglia, who is writing a book he calls "The Grammar Police Never Sleep," believes the time has come to nag again.
To punctuate the idea that "two thousand ten" is the wrong way to say it, Torriglia, 56, pointed out that no one would ever say, "I was born in one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three."
Yet that's how people keep saying "2010." In one YouTube video, a preteen promises to make more YouTube videos in "two thousand ten." Another has a guy on a yellow dirt bike saying he's "amped about the all-new 'two thousand ten' " model. A third features people trying to design novelty eyeglasses in the shape of "two thousand ten."
To Torriglia, it's relentless.
"I'm hearing it on TV commercials. I heard an announcer say it during 'Monday Night Football.' You cringe."
Torriglia cringes, anyway. But he's the kind of guy who cringes at the Safeway checkout line where the sign reads "10 items or less."
"It should be fewer."
He's right.
Maybe not
But what choice did anyone really have this past decade? Were they going to start off the new millennium with a "twenty oh oh" hiccup, while avoiding the melodious "two thousand"?
There's a reason Arthur C. Clarke didn't call his book "Twenty Oh One: A Space Odyssey."
It's been a difficult decade for Torriglia, phonologically speaking.
"It was never 'two thousand nine' for me," he sighed. "It was always 'twenty aught nine.' "
So the people hawking next year's car models, the newscasters on TV and anyone else with a reason to say "2010" aloud should embrace good grammar and say "twenty ten" right now, Torriglia said.
Not exactly, according to noted linguistics Professor George Lakoff of UC Berkeley.
"It's not wrong to say 'two thousand ten,' " Lakoff said. "And it's not like 'twenty ten' is the right way."
His explanation involves cognitive reference points, standards of speech and recognizing as anachronistic the notion that grammar can be right or wrong as people and cultures evolve.
Nevertheless, Lakoff predicted, " 'Twenty-ten' is gonna take over. It's shortest. It's easiest to understand."
On that point - if not on the syntax - the master linguist and the grammar police agree.
For more go to SFGate.com.
People are freaking out that Miley's lil Sister was caught on tape singing and dancing to the song "Smack That". Apparently, Miley taught her the song and the dance. Is it really that big of a deal?
If you've ever seen the show Scare Tactics, you have seen fake murders threatening people. Â You have seen alien attacks. Â You have seen creepy people. Â In all of these cases, the contestants were placed in a bad place in an effort to scare them! Â Recently, a Japanese show faked a shooting to scare a man. Â This may be the most over the top "fake" thing I have ever seen on TV. Â Did it go too far? Â Remember, it was all done for laughs!
This video just popped up online and has future graphic designers freaking out. I want to believe that this video is for real, but "oddly" enough, their website is down "due to high traffic." Wouldn't you think that a company that has the brains to design a program, like the one in the video, would be able to keep their website up and running? Real or fake? Watch the video and tell me what you think?
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.
Fan's at a recent Oakland A's game saw some wild action...OFF the field. It's interesting to me because I have seen really drunk guys at sporting events and I have seen them get kicked out. Usually, when the cops show up, fans cheer the drunk guy's exit. In this video, the fans seemed to wonder what was going on. Listen as the fans discuss what's happening. They are split on the way the drunk guy is treated. What do you think? Watch and comment!
I've met a ton of parents who have, what I like to call "kid tricks" that they teach their little children. These are always something "cute" that the kid does at a certain command. The kids are always too young to really know what they are doing. Does this "kid trick" cross the line, or is it cute?
After you watch the video, post a comment and let me know what you think. Also, do you have a "kid trick" that your kid did when they were little? What was it?
