Favorite irrelevant search terms used in the past month or so to stumble on this site:
name of baby einstein spaceship
body heat + comic
“engagement ring” shark
peta is like the bible
free clipart or clip art corporate malfeasance
liquid mails give to there young
serbian babes
thunderbolt liquid work
In Spanish, the letters “b” and “v” are pronounced more or less the same. That’s the only possible excuse I can see for the spelling in this Visual Basic tutorial.
Most of the time, the tutor Jalfaro spells Visual Basic correctly, but he decides to intersperse the tutorial with “Bisual Basic” and “Bisual Vasic” as well.
Is it just me, or is stating “Visual Basic es un lenguaje de progrmacion de VI Generacion” ([sic], translates to “Visual Basic is a sixth generation programming language”) a strange way to describe VB6? Maybe that’s a more usual diction in Spanish.
Helen A. S. Popkin*, who writes the Netiquette piece for MSNBC, advises us to prepare for the day when we are humiliated online.
Well, of course! In fact, that’s partly why this page exists: to attempt to disgrace myself before anyone else has a chance to do it. Then when I’m on YouTube doing something utterly inexplicable, people will say, “Oh, that guy. Yeah, it’s weird, but everyone knows he’s a buffoon in the first place.”
Some of my friends have also gone the self-humiliation route (although that was to try to win money.)
This begs the question: is it worse to make a fool out of yourself for money, or to embarrass yourself and have to make room in your budget to do it?
