My high school English teacher passed away over a year ago and there was a facebook page set up in memorandum. So many of the posts from so many years of students were about what a stickler she was for using the language correctly. She was determined to teach us to write so that our thoughts could be properly conveyed on paper. When I come across certain terms of speech that I know would make her cringe, I cringe out of respect.
There is a television commercial running to encourage you to go back to College. The commentator reminds you that you have been procrastinating over and over. HOW DO YOU PROCRASTINATE THE SAME THING MORE THAN ONCE? Kids I really don’t recommend going to this college.
Another peeve happens almost every morning. As I am getting ready for work; I usually have the CP24 Breakfast show on in the background. When they do the Milestones portion of the show they will send out congratulations from Mom, Dad, Sisters, Brothers, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, the cat, the dog, the pet turtle, AND THE REST OF THE FAMILY. I know this is read the way that the viewer sent it in but there can’t possibly be any family left after that list….can there?
And now we get to my TRUE rant! These two examples of stupid don’t come close to the documentary that glued me to the couch about re-creating life on Mars.
No I am not talking about the David Bowie song, or the short lived (sadly) Television show, or little green men. I am talking about looking for Nitrogen and Oxygen, growing some basic plants that will encourage a habitable atmosphere, and eventually (yeah hundreds if not thousands of years from now) we will be able to move there. I’m not sure if this was on the National Geographic Channel or maybe Discovery, but it was for real, this is being done. Well at least the research of how to do it is being done. The only reason that I can come up with for moving to Mars would be that we end up totally sucking the life out of Earth! Wouldn’t it make a whole lot more sense to expend the effort of making Mars habitable into making sure that Earth does not become inhabitable? Or am I missing something?
