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.

EDIT ON MAY 12, 2018: THIS IS THE OLD VERSION OF MY GLOSSARY... or at least the oldest version that was a sticky entry rather than on my profile, anyway. THE NEW GLOSSARY IS... nowhere, yet, but I'm going to FINALLY get around to updating this glossary for the first time in years after I'm done fixing all my entries on both LJ and DW.

I made this sticky entry in 2011, but then I didn't update it much after that and left it outdated for nearly SEVEN YEARS - long enough that I decide I might as well preserve the old version of the glossary, but make it no longer sticky in favor of a NEW sticky entry with the updated glossary.

Everything below this point is as the entry originally appeared, except I got rid of the lj-like buttons. The former subject line was simply "Glossary of Matt1993isms".

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I finally got around to updating this glossary and moving it to a sticky post so that it wouldn't clutter up my profile and I could have LJ-cuts to jump to certain sections!

Although the whole point of these multiple LJ-cuts is for ease of navigation (i.e. if I reference a Matt1993ism in the definition of a Matt1993ism in a different section, I'd link to the proper section), I haven't had the time to actually go through and add all these links, so stay tuned for that. I also thought about adding artwork for certain entries *cough*/crazymegavideo/*cough*, so stay tuned for that too. :)

As I said in the old glossary, if you spot a Matt1993ism I used that I haven't defined here, or if FoxReplace messes up the "pucker up because it's time for lunch" entry again, etc., please let me know :)

EDIT: Added some more Matt1993isms and tags, but still need to add the links and artwork. I'm also pretty sure there was another Matt1993ism that I still forgot to add...

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Too bad I don't have a Matt1993ism that has to do with reposting

It's "Wænya Day"! For those of you who have been here for less than a year, Wænya (formerly spelled "Waenya") is a character from my backwards music site Ours Will You 1-Up (which has been under not-so-new management that I've been almost always procrastinating on for over a year now); after I heard "Wænya" in the backwards lyrics to Never Want to Say It's Love by Dido, I had decided to actually design Wænya since the name sounds like Enya's answer to Wario and Waluigi, and thus did so on January 9, 2009.

So now, not only has OWY1U been down for both its first and second anniversary, but it's been down for two Wænya Days in a row. Which means all I can do is announce the spelling change...

Wænya number one!

Today I took the spelling portion and two math portions of the ITED. This is the first day I've taken ITED or ITBS tests in which I managed to answer EVERY question on ALL of the sections I took that day. Go me!!

Also, a funny incident happened with my lunch. Y'see, my locker has one shelf near the very top, and although there is nothing that is always put on that shelf, certain things tend to be on it, my lunch being one of them. Today, I was apparently too tired to put it there and threw it down at the bottom with most of my binders and books instead. Then, when it was time for lunch, I couldn't find my lunch on the top shelf and thought I had either forgotten to bring it or left it in the room that the ITEDs were taken in. (Yes, sometimes I'm stupid enough to do that.) I got several teachers involved in searching for it until I finally found it in my locker after all.

Which word is spelled incorrectly? a) repoast, b) to, c) your, d) journal