Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

(For those of you new here: every year since I discovered http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/index.html when I was 15, I've posted what other people accomplished when they were my age. Usually, this is a birthday post, but sometimes I forget until a little later. One time I even forgot about it until my next birthday!)

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At age 24:

Nelly Bly made a solo trip around the world in less than 80 days for the New York World, beating Phileas Fogg's fictional record.

Radioastronomy grad student Jocelyn Bell Burnell observed an unknown signal from outer space; this resulted in the discovery of pulsars.

John Couch Adams became the first person to predict the position of a planetary mass beyond Uranus.

Johannes Kepler defended the Copernican theory and described the structure of the solar system.

Entrepreneur Ted Turner took over his father's billboard advertising business. He later launched CNN.

Tracy Chapman released her first album, winning three Grammies.

Scottish physician Mungo Park became the first European to reach the West African interior.

Edgar Allen Poe won a $50 prize for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle."

Noah Webster published a spelling book.

Isaac Pitman devised the first scientific shorthand system.

Security guard Frank Wills alerted D.C. police to the Watergate break-ins.

Rainey Fellows donated a kidney to her (now ex-) boyfriend. They aren't together now, but he's doing very well. They're still friends.

Helene got a high score of 170440 in the popular online game Robot Unicorn Attack.

Tasha looked into her five-year-old son's eyes and decided to leave her abusive husband. Then she beat the odds and didn't go back even once.

David Hosei started his ninth business, eFamily.

You know Super Smash Bros., right? That fighting game starring such iconic video game all-stars as Larry, Mario, Princess Twinkie, Yogi, Kong 1, Zelda, The Beautiful Woman Interviewing Me, Shamu, Pudgy Airplane, Donald Duck's Offspring, Wombat?, Crash Bandicoot, Yellow Man, Charlie Brown, King Arthur, Knights of the Crooked Sword, Pegasus Dude, The Princess of Something, Triangle-Nosed Boy, The Unknown Yoga Person, Kid With a Crazy Sword Thing, Garfield and Friends, Something the Hedgehog, a LEGO, Happy, and more? ;)

Yeah, apparently, at some point around the time the 3DS and Wii U versions were released, there was a trend of people on YouTube showing their relatives (or, in at least one case, random people) all the playable characters' artwork and asking them to try to guess their names.

These are all of the videos of this sort that I've found so far*, and most of them are just so funny that even if you have no interest in video games whatsoever, I recommend that you watch at least one! :D (I highly recommend not reading the comments on certain ones, though...)




( Cut because I included 12 more, but they're great! )

*Except for one that's in Spanish and doesn't have enough subtitles for me to understand anything besides the characters' actual names. Also, eventually I found that there were so many that I decided to narrow it down by just watching ones that had at least a thousand views for now (though that was after I watched a couple that had less).

Offer up this entry to Some Goddess Person

http://www.cleverbot.com/

Talking to CleverBot is hilarious! Except when it makes enough sense to seem like I'm having a legitimate conversation. Then it's just scary.

( Half of a conversation with it )

I'm not a repost button, I'm a real human!

colonelduckie
Sunday in the park with ____?
If you could hang out with any fictional character for a whole day, who would you choose, and why?

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Hmm...I dunno. I can't seem to pick one fictional character that would get along with me and/or crack me up the most, so I'll list off several:

( Sever your post, please. )

I'm pretty sure there are more than this; this is just what I thought of off the top of my head.

I repost the cheese. It does not repost me.

I'm finally completely done with the semester at school AND my first HAS assignment! Yay! Now I don't have to worry about anything essayy (read "essay-y") for the next 27 hours and 12 minutes. (Because the essays at school kept me from working on HAS for a long time.)

Now I'm gonna make fun of a quiz that I didn't even take (because I CAN'T take it).



Am I supposed to write them on the screen or something? Stupid Quiz Galaxy.

Write this post on your screen

pathvain_aelien suggested that I make a list of my ten favorite Buffy episodes so far, so here it be.

Hush
Ted
Witch THE Witch
Fear Itself
I Robot... You Jane
Something Blue
Halloween
Beer Bad
A New Man
Earshot

I'll post an updated version once I have watched every episode, and then another updated version once I have watched every episode again, because I forget which episodes some of my favorite lines are from.

Also, I never did get to play Mario Party 4 today like I said. Maybe tomorrow. :(

She alone will repost the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness