More Band Names

In an earlier post, I wrote down some band names as an idea for someone to go and create a band around. Well that was just too much fun and as soon as that was published, I knew that I had some more names left in me. So without further ado (what is ado, really?) I shall present to thee more band names to inspire you:

• Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles
• After Yesterday
• Andrew and the Walloons
• Artsy People
• Bean Machine
• Blue Shoe
• Boots in Reverse
• The Cat's Sweatpants
• Carl Swagger
• Cute Boot
• Darlington Empire
• Doodads and Knick-Knacks
• Dude in the Mood
• Entity
• Evil Weevil
• Excel Spreadsheets
• Fish Fry Friday
• Frenzy of Fish
• Funky Monkeys and Their Accordians
• Glockenshpeel
• Goop de Shoop
• Guru Wisdom
• Hoopla Jamz
• Hula Tuba
• Ice in a Can
• Icthy Pinch
• Jade Pepper Sauce
• Jimmy's Cow
• Jumbo Gumbo
• Kapital Ideas
• The Kidney Kids
• Krunk!!!
• Lars Incorporated
• The Leading Accountants
• Lupita the Jail breaker
• Manny and the Map Makers
• Money Bunny
• Monster Triangles
• Noodle Poodle
• Nun and Chuck
• Orville's Secret Agents
• Osvaldo Part Two
• Parsley Soup
• Perks in the Park
• Punks Out on the Town
• Quorum Forum
• Quacksalver
• Rangler Steve
• Reginald's Butlers
• Rusty Steel Toed Shoe
• Saturday Schmaturday
• Sheepish Rams
• Sheepish Sheep
• The Short Giants
• The Stunt Triples
• Teeter
• Totter
• Tungsten and Bismuth
• Tweedle-Do
• Utterly Awesome
• Upper Lip
• Vanity Plates
• Vortex of Sound
• Vulcan Minds
• Was There A Party Here?
• Weavils Who Are Good
• Whomp!
• Xacto Knives
• XHXiXdXdXeXnX XMXeXsXsXaXgXeXsX
• XRXeXgXuXlXaXrX XMXeXsXsXaXgXeXsX
• Yaxley's Homies
• Young Smurfs
• Zeezle Weasel
• Zoom and Focus

Once again, you do not have to use any of these names. Just don't insult me because of them. My band has yet to be formed so you can say that I am a wannabe, but hey, I do what I want!

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Ninja.com

Have you ever heard of Google? Have you ever heard of Ninjas? Well if you combine the two of these things, you will get a search engine that will bring you results that are all related to ninjas. If you type in ninja, though, you'll get a link back to the site again, not a double ninja search.


After seeing this, I thought, what other sites are like this where they are directly related to their URL. Also, what sites are just advertisements for their brand. Here is a list of the real sites and the company oriented sites based upon simple words in their URL:


Real

• ninja.com
• cheese.com (670 cheeses archived)
• hay.com (satisfying your hay related needs)
• food.com (recipes and all that)
• chocolate.com (It sells chocolate, but I couldn't find the company)
• north.com (I think it is a blog)
• south.com (The Scott Antarctic Expedition. It will be the first return journey to the South Pole on foot and the longest unsupported (i.e. human-powered) polar journey in history (You can donate money to own a mile, check it out! (You can own a mile))
• sheep.com (Adopt a lamb!)

Company Oriented

• me.com (MobileMe (not a typo))
• lasagna.com (Barilla)
• giant.com (Western Financial)
• chop.com (It's a job searching site)
• eat.com (Ragu)
• .com.com (CNET)
• soup.com (Knorr)
• moo.com (business card makers)
• west.com (West Corporation)
• east.com (credit report)
• hat.com (Hat Industry: Marching Through Time)

I tried to really get a lot of sites down, but there ended up being more than I thought there would be that were company oriented. Also, I spent a lot of time looking at the Scott Antarctic Experience. That stuff is cool. I just want to eventually get enough money to own my own mile.

The Daumenator has spoken

Haiku

The other day, I was writing a letter to someone. No, it wasn't an official letter that would pass through the government's mailing system. It was more of a note that was just for fun and not for anything serious. It went like this:

Hey, how's it going today?

Do you want to go eat food

How about Italian food?

The person who I wrote the note two then freaked out and went all poetry on me and said it was a haiku. Now this was purely accidental and I really did not care for Haikus, but this person refused to believe me and insisted that I have poetry bottled up inside me. This is obviously crapola and I explained this to the person who was ignoring the purpose of the note entirely. I ended up eating a sandwich. (I keep misspelling sandwich. I add and "h" into it every time to make it "sandwhich." Does anyone have any catchy ways to remember not to do this?)

For those of you who do not know what a Haiku is, get out now. Haikus are a form of poetry. You are better off not knowing what they are. But if you are reading this sentence you might as well keep going. Haikus, defined by Merriam-Webster's Dictionary are: "an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively; also : a poem in this form usually having a seasonal reference." Well if that made sense to you, great, I do not need to explain anymore to you. I personally believe all poetry should rhyme, but most poets (who are really just a higher class of rappers) go rogue and ignore all of The Daumenator's principles. Today, I will show you some haikus that I have written and some that I have found lying around on the Internet. For now, enjoy:

Haikus are easy

But sometimes they don't make sense

Refrigerator

My life is Jello
Sitting and waiting in the bowl
Patiently to gel

Yellow flowers spin.
The slimy, nosy ears trip.
Blue hedgehogs quiver.

Fluttering, stars bounce.
A cat sways carmine fruits.
Wisdom spreads water.

It feels like a rose,
on a string, like a yo-yo,
a ride at the fair - I hear.

I saw a blue cat

A very weird thing to see

It walked away

As the birds fly south

I make reservations to

Go to Florida

Ask for opinions.
Mull it over. Then you can.
Just do what you want.

I hope that these were not too offensive. But this is, after all, just poetry. Of course it will offend people.

The Daumenator has spoken

More Languages

Some of you may already know this, but this blog allows me to type in another language. But recently, they have expanded the number of languages that I can type in. These are not like translating into spanish, but are the languages that require characters that are usually not found on a keyboard. I will now have a phrase repeated in the following languages: English, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Persian, Gujarati, HIndi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Urdu. The ones that are crossed out are the ones that would end up looking like this for every letter ত.

English

My ninja skills consist of fighting and observing.

Amharic

Arabic

مي نينجا سكيللس سونسيست أف فيغتينج عند وبسيرفينج.

Bengali

Greek

Μυ νινξα σκιλλς κωνσιστ οφ φιγητινγκ αντ οβσερβινγκ.

Persian

می نینجا سکیلس کونسیست اف فیقتینگ اند وبسروینگ.

Gujarati

મય નિંજા સ્કીલ્લ્સ કોન્સીસ્ત ઓફ ફીઘ્તિંગ અંદ ઓબ્સેર્વિંગ.

Hindi

माय निन्जा स्किल्स कंसिस्ट ऑफ़ फिघ्टिंग एंड ओब्सेर्विंग.

Kannada

Malayalam

Marathi

मी निन्जा स्किल्स कॉन्सिस्त ऑफ फिघ्तिंग अंड ओब्सेर्विंग.

Nepali

मी निन्जा स्किल्ल्स चोन्सिस्त ओफ फिघ्टिंग एंड ओब्सेर्विंग.

Punjabi

ਮੀ ਨਿਂਜਾ ਸ੍ਕਿਲ੍ਲ੍ਸ ਕੋਨ੍ਸਿਸ੍ਟ ਓਫ ਫਿਘ੍ਟਿੰਗ ਏੰਡ ਓਬ੍ਸੇਰ੍ਵਿੰਗ.

Russian

Мы ниня скиллс консист оф фигхтинг анд обсервинг.

Sanskrit

मय निञ्ज स्किल्ल्स चोन्सिस्त ओफ़् फ़िघ्तिन्ग अण्ड ओब्सेर्विन्ग.

Serbian

Мј ниња скилс чонсист оф фигхтинг анд обсервинг.

Tamil

மி நிஞ்ச ச்கில்ல்ஸ் கோன்சிஸ்ட் ஒப் பிக்ஹ்டிங் அண்ட் ஒப்செர்விங்.

Telugu

Tigrinya

Urdu

می ننجا سکیللس کونسسٹ وف فغٹنگ اند وبسرونگ.

After typing this phrase over and over again (Blogger wouldn't let me copy and paste and then translate it) I found that some of the squiggles that appeared on the page before me seem awfully similar. I apologize if I got anyone's language wrong. If they were wrong, blame the detective Cool McCool; he can handle the danger. According to him, "danger is my business." If you don't believe me, look him up. Cool McCool is real!

The Daumenator has spoken

Easily Foiled

Some things recently (at the time that I am writing this, at least) have occurred to me to be both hard to construct, yet easily destroyed. I am not a fan of these things that are easily foiled. I wish there was a way to slow down their own undoing. Here are some examples and my possible solutions.

Snow Forts: You gotta pack 'em down tight and make sure everything is in its place. You can't step on the wall or they'll crumple and you don't have time to fix this sort of thing with limited easy snow (The snow that is relatively close to you. Preferably pre-stacked. I'm not saying the snow is easy relationship-wise. Snow is snow that knows how to handle its own relationships. (Parentheses inside parentheses question: do you count as a plural noun or a singular noun. I know you don't say "I'm playing in the snows" but it isn't exactly one piece of snow. If you really check outside, that's a crap load of snow) I hope that wasn't an abuse of parentheses (Or was it?)). But these can easily be foiled by a simple kick or a stomp, or a fat cousin who "trips." Neighbors dogs who have no sense boundaries can also tear down your walls of Jericho. But how do we stop this event from occurring? Well, one could build a wall around your original wall but that would end up looking like you just smooshed the middle of a really thick wall. You could also bring in imported materials such as titanium, but to some, that would be considered foul play to some. Final condition of this problem: Lost Cause

House of Cards: You all know what I am talking about here hopefully. This structure, for me, takes about ten minutes just to get two cards to lean on each other at equilibrium status. There is no solution here. If you can get a real structure going here, then just sit back and enjoy it for as long as possible. There are so many metaphors to a crumbling house of cards. Just think of it as, "fun while it lasted." Final Condition of this problem: Lost Cause

I feel as if I am pouring my heart into a black hole of sadness. This can't be good for me. This probably isn't good for you. Why are you reading this. I'd get out of here if I were you. This is like the Pit of Despair, but optional. This is like a karate chop into a block of wood made from a hybrid tree that has been designed to cry. I'm afraid that if I come up with any more similes (which is kind of like smile or smiley, now that I think of it) I shalt be tossed into a ball pit of remorse. I really hope that no one ever has to endure that fate.

The Daumenator has spoken