May 27, 2008

It's really quite frustrating when you bring out your pen and paper and thoughts just simply don't come to your head... At this very moment, I have absolutely no idea what I want to write. But look, words are still spewing out and showing themselves as I blindly type! So I seem to be writing about not knowing what to write. How fascinating. I'm sitting here writing without a real point to make, and just writing my rambling thoughts as they come into my head...

I've always wondered how the geniuses of way back when, came up with the word "asterisk." *

Anybody in today's world with any amount of brain at all, just calls it a star. The other ones are fairly normal... like dash, slash, arrow, ... ... squiggly line thing ~~~... Actually, what about underscore? That was probably the same oh-so-influential person who invented the word "asterisk" and since nobody else had the power to overrule him, he got to name them. Because of him we have to deal with complicated, hard-to-say words for such tiny and simplistic things as stars!

Posted by RJ Haely at 5:04 PM