Google Demo Slams

I was checking out what all those advertisements online were about for the Google Slam Championship or the "slampionship." One of the categories that you could slam something was in the google documents category. In this category, you can create a picture of some thing. For those of you who truly know me, you should know that I draw a really awesome picture of a cat. Today, I was able to draw my cat on the computer and save it. It actually looks halfway decent for something I challenged myself to make in under two minutes. So, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, my cat:

This caption is so far away because it is a thing of beauty.

If you want to do something like this, go to this site for your doodling needs: Site

It appears as if you could really just do all your documents and presentations on Google now. Microsoft is getting phased out. Well this is being written in February, so I may be behind the times. Please don't spoil the future if in fact Google does beat out Microsoft.

The Daumenator has drawn

The Rhyme Dictionary

First of all, I'd like to say that I am in the middle of a spelling drought. I have not been able to spell words correctly on the first, second, or third try. For example, I had to respell "Rhyme" five times before I finally remembered to put the "h" in. I never remember that "h" being there. It seems as if it snuck up upon me and I am now only realizing that ryme has an "h." Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I'm looking for the minimal amount of work to get the best possible result here. But let this be my primary example of how we should have had spelling bees in high school. Once grade school was over, spell check came in and now I can't even spell conscincenes right.

But back to the title. I like how the title always reminds me what the cheese I am talking about. I could be on a tangent and procrastinating and I will always know what I was trying to get to because the title is the guiding idea.

But back to the subject the title was talking about. Did you know that there is a dictionary that is used just for rhymes. Okay, it is not exactly called the Rhyme Dictionary, it's called the Rhyme Zone, but I like Rhyme Dictionary better so I will call it that. You could be writing a song and you need something that rhymes with kayak and BAM! the dictionary will list out the rhymes of that word for you, organized by syllable. It can be a great idea generator but it can also give you weird rhymes for your word.

I decided to give the Rhyme Dictionary a challenge. I submitted the word orange and got the response of, "sorry, no perfect rhymes were found." I could have seen this coming so I tried looking for, "near rhymes," and got the results of "door hinge," "hostench," "lorincz," and "lozenge." I definitely put those words into a song. I imagine some of you readers are imagining me singing on a stage and you hear me say the word "orange" and you will think to yourself,"Oh no! He is going to fail and it will be humiliating for there is no word that rhymes with "orange!" But then I will whip out the phrase "door hinge" and all will be saved. Now that may be a dramatization but that is the rhyme that I will suggest to Marshall Mathers (Eminem) for his next song/rap. Soon you will see a song names "Orange" by Eminem featuring The Daumenator. This may also be another dramatization, but at least I have an idea for Eminem's rapping skills, and as far as I know, you have diddly squat when it comes to cool rhymes.

By the way, some of you may be thinking about the word, "silver." Well technically The Rhyme Zone says "Quicksilver" counts as a rhyme, but I just say that that is cheating. But there are 661 results for near rhymes and I don't want to list all the results so "Quicksilver" it is.

As for "purple," there are no perfect rhymes. There are, however, 92 different near rhymes for purple. So far, "orange" is the leading non-rhymeable word.

There are some crazy rhymes that the Zone comes up with. The craziest one that I could find was a rhyme for "by" that was six syllables long and was called "adl-tabatabai." But as for ones that made sense, there was a seven syllable rhyme for "back," which was, "diversionary attack"

If you want to find rhymes of your own at the place that I have been talking about, go to the Rhyme Zone.

The Daumenator has spoken, for he ain't broken

MC

MC: What does it stand for?

I know some of you may already know the answer, but the point is, I don't. I tried looking this up and I found this result: Montgomery College. I immediately ignored this result because I'm pretty sure his name is not Montgomery College Hammer. The next result that I got was for the acronym of Master of Ceremonies, McDonald's, Mississippi College, McMaster-Carr, Midnight Commander, Mercury Computer, and MC Frontalot. With so many MC's out there, how can we be sure that the one we call ourselves is the correct one?


I personally have no way to be sure if MC Daumenator truly means Meat Chopper Daumenator or something along those lines. But I can take a reasonable guess. Then again, I don't want to offend the MC community. Who knows how many people are in that community? There are so many ways to define MC that it is "impossible" to determine the exact population of people that are MC's. For now, I just sit back and let the people decide how many MCs there are out there. ODn't be shy, just say what you think, people, and I will decide at a later point in time, the estimated MC population of the universe country state house area that we are in right now. 

The Daumenator has spoken

Go Germany

I was perusing the statistics of this blog the other day when I came across something interesting. Besides the United States, the country that read this blog the most was Germany. Maybe they all came here by chance  or maybe they just were looking for some cool band names. The point is, I don't really know what draws Germans to this blog, but they do it more than any other country.

I don't know whether congratulations are in order or if I should just tell all the Germans to get out. I wouldn't really do that, I love Germany. They invented the pretzel. How can you be mad at a country who invented pretzels. (By the way, the best place to get pretzels is a franchise called Wetzel's Pretzels. They sell regular pretzels, cinnamon pretzels, pretzel dogs, lemonade, and much, much more!) Other great things about Germany is their coat of arms (Reichswappen). That bird is showing off it's guns (metaphorically).

I got two tickets to the gun show right here

Formally the Holy Roman Empire, Germany has evolved into a place where people accept the Euro as money. Their national symbol is a black eagle (Bundesadler) and their national bird is a white stork. The white stork looks a little something like this:

Overall, I'd say Germany is a fabulous country. I'd like to take this moment to thank all the people in Germany who have seen this blog. This post wouldn't exist without you.

The Daumenator has gesprochen


P.S. The advertisements are an example of me testing things out. Don't be angry about them. I'm just trying to see if I can actually make money off of them. Click the links if you really want to, though.