As a few years travel by, I tend to collect a lot of old gear and positions that I no longer need. Let it be outdated PC parts, instrument accessories, recording gear, clothing, camera gear and so forth. I usually end up giving it away to friends, family and finally Goodwill for whatever is left.
I decided to tally up everything (Goodwill-wise) so far that I have let go this year to see what my writeoffs look like thus far. I have given away 42 items to goodwill already. I never knew I had so much stuff I didn’t need. Given, I think I have gone though just about everything looking for such items…so I’m pretty much at a dead end now. An old wired phone, a not so old digital 5ghz wired phone set (I don’t have a hard-phone line)….an old digital camera, a printer…some old clothes that were never worn (yatta yatta). It all adds up quickly collecting space.
I handed off a good number of things to friends as well. I just mailed out a small pocket-size digital kodak camera to a friend. I noticed I haven’t used it in over 2 years. It was a nice camera, but my phone takes just as good images (if not better) so why not pass it on to someone who could use it. Two old 21″ TV’s, some Xbox games that I some how acquired but would never play. *poof*….gone. Freed up a lot of space.
Something interesting, I recently acquired a signed original art piece by one of the artists from “Adventure Time” (via a local comic/art convention) for someone. I paid $15 for it, it was very well sketched out and had no idea what I was going to do with it, as sadly I could no longer give it to them. I don’t watch the show myself. I tried giving it away but I didn’t know anyone who followed the show (no one wanted to claim it). I wound up bringing it up to someone who bought it off of me for $50. As to why they wanted it so badly (especially since the signature was personalized), couldn’t say. o_O….I may need to acquire some more of those art pieces the next time I run into that artist. It was an image of the dog from the show, dressed as batman in a nice action scene. Unique….
If everyone took the time to randomly go through one room a day and collect everything that had no need for….old PC gear, tech you haven’t used for years and have no need for now, clothing that no longer fits or never worn…an old bowling bowl……..imagine treasure smorgasbord that would be donated to Goodwill or anyone else who wanted it. Imagine the space you will suddenly find in your homes. Take those old drives you use as doorstops and offer them to friends. You never know…they may need that 80GB hard drive for an odd project. Old cellphones…your neighbor may be looking to give their kid a phone they don’t worry so much about getting trashed.
I have a family member I have been slowly helping out. They are quite the pack rat, so Goodwill has been gaining a lot of weight thanks to them. About 4 car loads so far. I’d say that’s quite the dent in decades of…..pack ratting. They have found areas in their house they forgot were even there.
…..just a random blabber post/point since I had no idea what to write about. I had a review drafted from a few weeks ago about some gaming apparel/stuff but I decided against publishing it. Just didn’t have the energy to finish it. More things to come though…eventually. As soon as I find my muse.
Until then….enjoy picking apart this…horribly….formatted….blog post…….after watching one of Weird Al’s new videos (quite possibly one of his best):
….and….this is where I realize I should have gone to bed as I need to get up in four and a half hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc I love this so much…..
LOOKATIT
LOOOOK ATTTT ITTTTTT
wowz weird al md a somg aboot meh!!!
Even when I was 7 I didn’t write numbers using letters
Oh, I miss diagramming sentences! It’s been so long that I’m not even sure
I remember how to do it.
This seems like something my mom would show me… She REALLY wants me to
wright (and type) properly. <_>
So let me educate you Al:
Writing in numbers is also called leet (l33t), which was invented by g33kz
(oh no I didn’t write that) back in 1980s.. I recommend reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Really is awkward for “it’s” and “its” as it’s the opposite case with the
majority of words
Hmm the Saudis use numbers in their short hand written language?
+theidiotsonyoutube Cheese Sandwich would like to have a word with you!
I cri Evrytim T-T
OKAY so I was reading a fanfiction and it was actually pretty good, but…
La-de-da-de-da I see it the WORD CRIMES there was no capitalization at
all… I take a deep breath and then I see it the word “Ur” Ugh it’s not
even a word, I immediatly exit the page and don’t look back. I CANNOT STAND
BAD CAPITALIZATION BUT I HATE BAD GRAMMAR!
SO I SHALL EDUCATE ALL YOU PEOPLE ON GRAMMAR
TA-DA
Eye Lik dis 4 reel.Anibodi agri wit meh?
This is freaking FANTASTIC!!! Please stop everything you’re doing and watch
it immediately. ( No grammar was harmed in the creation of this post… )
I was just listening to One Republic’s song Secrets when I stumbled upon
this song in the comments section. Don’t know if I should like it or hate
it… but it is catchy.
Me fail English? That’s unpossible.
This one tickled me..watched it on Axstv.
It’d be so funny I’d Al then sent an email after finishing this song and he
misused his grammar in it XD
I relate to this song so much. But; ‘You’d better slow down, use the right
pronoun, SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE NO CLOWN’ -Weird Al Yancovic. I mean,
isn’t that just a liiiitle bit unfair to me? I mean I’m ClownBrains for
God’s sake!
I cannot wait to use this for my future English classes.
Not Impressed…. Sounds like White Supremacy ! Learn proper english.
Message…. Code Words, the Apocrypha; Unpopular… I’m disgusted that;
this is a negative. NEGAtive. Please, study colonialism. Capitalism.
Control.. Your language is pseudo. Plagiarized and prioritized to propagate
the propaganda of bigotry. Communication should not be predicated on
grammatical error. In my opinion most of the people who subscribe to this
song, have prejudice of foreigner, preconceived notions of NIGGER nostalgia
and Lack of Humanity ! Good Day.
He used improper grammar when he said “That was sarcastic” it should have
been that was sarcasm
Hahahaaha.. This is for all the *grammar crazies out their!*
This song should be required in the curriculum for students of all ages.
You call me a moron for typing wrong. English is my third language and for
me I speak it good enough. The writer(s) of this song doesn’t even know any
words in other languages and still call me a moron if I do one typing
error. Fuck you. You are the one(s) who needs education.
Literally the saddest thing about this video is that dictionaries literally
define literally as figuratively. Figuratively and literally now literally
are both synonyms and synonyms. I literally am starting to believe that
literally is literally no longer a real word.
+Nallekarhu Destinee-chan :3 Ya like Weird Al?
Need a good laugh? Share this with all your grammatically challenged
friends. 😉 http://buff.ly/17UMUfy
Need a good laugh? Share this with all your grammatically challenged
friends. 😉 http://buff.ly/17UMUfy
I would love to make an illegal immigration joke now but I would get some
flame back.
the Grammar Police anthem. please rise and join us in the Anti-Word Crime
movement.
but srsly. I just hate when people mess these up, and also nauseated vs.
nauseous.
Is it just me or is the whole ‘it’s’ vs ‘its’ thing fundamentally
backwards. I know ‘its’ is possessive, but it makes more sense to me for
‘it’s’ to be possessive and ‘its’ to be the contraction. I can’t be the
only one who thinks this.
This song taught at least one non-native speaker to properly write
possessives of “it”. Thank you Weird Al – now I won’t be embarrassing
myself anymore.
heh it’s so kawaii at 0:54 when WowMuchShiba’s prof. pic.’s wide af eyes
just turn and the song goes “wut”. XD
Wow I find it funny that most of the people who make these word crimes are
older than me I’m in 5th grade
Oh God its so annoying when I type on my phone or tablet auto correct
changes its to it’s so I sound stupid and the trolls destroy me
It’s about time! My friends all text without proper grammar, and it gets on
my nerves. I’m the only one out of all my friends that use proper grammar.
Everyone will fail to have accurate grammar at some points, but from
personal experience too many of my own countrymen(non-sex specific,
inclusive) seem proud to be actively ignorant.
This being said if English is not your native tongue, some errors are to be
excepted and tolerated.
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes: https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
To be fair, a lot of these aren’t relevant anymore in modern English (less
vs. fewer? That’s just being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic).
Still a wonderfully funny and catchy song, though.
YOU GUYS GOTTA WATCH THIS! it’s hilarious!
I will never not love Weird Al.
Damn it, I just used a double negative. He’ll kill me.
Hey Weird Al! I am curious after Robin and Pharrell lost their court case
against Marvin Gaye’s Estate due to infringement. I know you do parodies of
all well known songs. Because of this decision, do you have to pay
percentage of royalties to Marvin Gaye’s Estate too? I know you pay sort of
percentage to the artists for not violating infringement laws of their
songs even though you gets permission by them.
Was my reaction to your grammar.
Thumbs up for rhyming nomenclature
This is awesome, you would think in this day and age where people are
practically writing autobiography’s about themselves everyday that more
people could at least spell. … I probably just committed word crimes.
Noobie role players be like XD, the grammar is CRING WORTHY
it really get on my nerves when people don’t spell right or say just said u
instead of spelling the whole word out
This explains how I feel when reading anything online. Great song!
So how does the result of that lawsuit against Blurred Lines song effect
Al’s parody?
It may be visually overwhelming to you, but please watch this. It is worth
your time.