On a Lighter Note... (01-19-2007)

I started a blog at Blogger because I changed email addresses and forgot my password at Wordpress. Most of the stuff I've written over the years is kind of dumb, but some of it might be worth preserving. I'm copying it over here so that when I forget my login info again, I can just copy it from this one place.

 

I know this is kind of old, but there has been a bulletin circulating around MySpace with the following information:

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too**
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55% of plepoe can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I
awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs frowrad it.*

I was pretty stoked at frist, becuase I colud raed taht pretty well. A cuopel of wrods took a litle figruing uot, but baiscaly, I cuold decipehr teh mess of lettres nito a fiarly choerent messge.

But then I realized that it was probably just a sign that I had been indoctrinated with the l337 5p34k (or “leet speak,” which is short for “elite speak” for you n00bs) that is so prevalent in our http://www.internet.culture. We have made the move from careful proof-reading to a blind faith in electronic spell-checking to, finally, broad acceptance of the fact that the joys of instant (message) gratification carry with them the burdens of haste and carelessness. We’re accustomed to misspelled words, and they now camouflage themselves nicely in emoticon-driven IM communication, where we are not only allowed to type sloppily, but rather encouraged to do so…

…and taht makse me !!!1!! (lol)