Wind and Mr.Ug...

I feel like 7 years old again :') Such a beautiful story and ending...

Uncommon Punctuation Marks

I found this on the internet (link at the end of the post) and thought it was quite funny and interesting. Some of these punctuation marks I'm not sure if they're 'actual' punctuation marks or made up. I'm sure they're all real but very uncommon... Well, enjoy :P

1. Dagger

Also called an Obelisk. This bad boy (on the left), and its two-headed friend (on the right) the Double Dagger or Diesis, represents a javelin, which is cutting out extraneous stuff from your text. Its primary use through the ages has been to mark out superfluous repetitions in translation, though nowadays it mostly just stands in as a kind of footnote.

2. Caret

Also called a Wedge, an Up-Arrow, and a Hat, which is cute. The word caret is Latin for "it lacks," which is convenient, because the caret is primarily used to indicate something that's missing from the original text.

3. Solidus

Not to be confused with a slash! The Solidus is also called a Shilling Mark (presumably by old British dudes in top hats) and it is at a much steeper angle than a boring old backslash. Back before decimalization took the world by storm, the Solidus was used to set apart different values of currency from each other.

4. Asterism

The Asterism has an awesome name, a cool look, and a really lame usage. It's for indicating minor breaks in text. It can also mean "untitled," apparently.

5. Guillemets

Guillemets means "Little Williams," which is interesting but unhelpful. They're named after a 16th Century French printer. Their primary role is in non-English languages that use them as quotation marks.

6. Sheffer Stroke

Mainly used for Boolean functions and propositional calculus. Truth tables. Stuff like that.

7. Because Sign

This one's so cool. It's like the "Therefore" sign, but upside-down, and it means because.

8. Section Sign

To indicate sections in a text, mostly by lawyers, who are too good for regular punctuation marks. You probably knew this one, but it's cool-looking, so.

9. Exclamation Comma

Just because you're excited about something doesn't mean you have to end the sentence.

10. Question Comma

The interrogative version of its best friend the Exclamation Comma.

11. Interrobang

It's a combo-Exclamation/Question mark, and it's awesome. It is the glorious punctuational equivalent of saying OMGWTF?!

12. Hedera

Hedera is Latin for ivy. Why that is relevant here is not very clear at all, but this little glyph was used back in the day to mark paragraph breaks. Seems like it was probably really hard and annoying to draw, but it looks nice.

13. Pilcrow

This one's also for paragraph breaks. Most people will be familiar with it, though not with the fact that it's called a Pilcrow. It's also referred to as "The Blind P," which sounds like a good name for some hopelessly twee indie band. "Pilcrow" is the Middle English word for "Paragraph." You will never be able to use that fun fact in real life.

14. Snark

Also called the Percontation Point and the Irony Mark, this one's used to indicate that there's another layer of meaning in a sentence. Usually a sarcastic or ironic one. So it is essentially a tool for smart people to use to make stupid people feel even stupider. Which makes it the best punctuation mark of all.

Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/13-punctuation-marks-that-you-never-knew-existed

Raindrops keep fallin'...

My mother just sent me outside. In the rain. To buy some milk I could just get tomorrow -.-

This song was on my head through the journey... and most likely still is now...

"Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

Nothin' seems to fit

Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep fallin'"

Gallifreyan

I’ve only just begun my studies into the language of Gallifreyan, to be honest. I was looking through the various guides that I’ve collected, and decided on something. A four letter word, the symbols of which weren’t too complicated on their own, but together, the image they formed was one of true beauty. As I was drawing this, I could picture it. Picture it in its full meaning, its entirety, in everything it symbolises in the world. And it’s perfect. Pure, utter perfection. I’ll definitely be trying more Gallifreyan, but no word could be as beautiful to observe as this one.
What’s the word, you ask?
Love.

Source: http://greencrook.tumblr.com/

 Soppy, I know, I found it on the web and thought it was very.... lovely. :P

3 different ways to Procrastinate

I am (or was, in your case) meant to be doing my English essay ("How Shakespeare presents Romeo, compared to Baz Luhrmann's film version, in the two key scenes") but there was this magazine next to me ("Writing Magazine" November 2011. Yes, I am a that type of person who buys magazines for the retired middle-class. I told you I'm old.) and decided to flick through it when I saw an interesting article written by Lorraine Jennings about 3 different types of procrastination. It's just a jokey article (well, I thought it was quite funny) and it is linked with what I am doing right now... so I thought I'd share it with you :)

1. Passive Procrastination. Or idle surfing the net. You're not sure what you're looking for but anything other than doing the work-that-must-be-done will do.
2. Positive Procrastination. Now this is guilt-free. You're constantly telling us how we should tweet 'like' and link-in with our fellow writers. We hit these sites without care in the world. All for the good of our writing, of course.
3. Productive Procrastination. It surfaced once I'd accepted a commission recently. "Pony" wanted five articles in two weeks. I was delighful. I opened five new documents. I wrote Pony Winter Series on top of each one and the thoughts started to flow. I've since written three articles about New Year's Resolutions, two on giving up smoking and two about writing - not to mention this letter. Productive it may be but procrastination it still is. Does anyone out there know anything about horse riding?

I think im on the fence between doing positive prcrastination and productive procrastination right now... hmm... ah well :)

Hello...

I feel I should give you an introduction, or something, so that you and I could connect more *wink-wink* To be honest, I really don’t think anyone is going to read this. Maybe someone would bump into it by “accident” but nobody would really be following me*sad face*
I don’t mind, the only reason why I’m doing this is because I felt like doing a blog.
Anyways, A brief summery of me: I’m a “hyperlink child” (you know, Filipino-Scottish, Irish-English, African-American. In my case I’m the first one.) which also means I am bilingual (I'm not bragging or anything ;) ), currently living in Devon (south-west of England), I am one of those old 16 year old (I like Gllen Miller, Billy Holiday,  Fleetwood Mac (before Peter Green left), I could read for England, play classical music (piano and guitar, want to play the violin), people I adore in the celebrity industry: Steven Fry, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, etc, I like to sew and knit, things like that that makes me unlike other 16 year olds. But I am very glad to say I am not alone in this world (believe it or not), I am also a modern hippie, I am artistic which means (not always, but in my case it would make sense) I believe there is beauty in everything, I am a: xenophile, bibllophile, numismatist, cruciverbalist, deltiologist, phllatelist, zoophile and (quite obviously) a logophile. (yes, I did just look those up to sound clever.. too much?)
Well, that’s a very tiny bit about me (in a nutshell)but that's all you'll know as I am mainly going to be posting things I find interesting.. nothing personal (lucky you).
Okay, I’m rambling, a lot. Sorry about that… but at least you know a bit more about the blogger, and if you want to find out anymore, well, read on.


... or don't.