Archive for February, 2009

FTW

Let’s clear up this whole FTW thing!

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Interview for Current TV’s Infomania Show

I did a funny interview with Ben Hoffman for Current TV’s Infomania Show, which aired tonight. Ben’s a really funny interviewer!

I was actually laughing quite a bit during the interview, but they cut it in a funny manner to make it look like I was serious during his jokes, which made it even funnier Also, when I said I make 6 figures, you include dollars and cents, right?

The title of the segment is based on the fact that when you Google certain words like philologist, feet, antidisestablishmentarianism, hooker, boobs, I appear right at the top of those searches due to the success of my videos discussing those word origins.

Some retro HotForWords for my 2 year anniversary!

Today marks my 2 year anniversary from the day I created my YouTube channel.  Here is a video from around that time that I thought would be funny to show again  The origin of pusillanimous.

Funny look at the future

Funny look at the future!  Oh wait…

Guess The Word Game XV Answer

Here is the answer to the Guess the Word Game XV.  So many people picked DULLARD.. though I don’t know how that word is an eponym (unless I missed one of the answers?).

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Just fixed the link above. It was pointing to yesterday’s video by mistake.

Oscar (Remixed)

This is a remake of my older Oscar video.  I thought it would be fun to update it.

Origin of the name Oscar for the Academy Awards.
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6,473 texts a month

Interesting article in the Washington Post today about teens and texting.  Teens with cellphones AVERAGE 2,272 TEXT MESSAGES A MONTH!

I think that’s quite a lot.  And it does make me wonder what the effects are on the teens who are constantly being distracted by texts from various friends.

I remember when I had a friend who called me 20-30 times a day just to ask me random questions.. it really drove me crazy as I couldn’t focus on anything for very long without getting distracted by a phone call from this person.  The minute I got this person under control, everything started to happen for me and I started to achieve major success!

Without having any “me time” to think about things for any length of time, without interruption, must have some kind of effect on people.  What do you all think?

Here is the article I am talking about.

Guess The Word Game XV

Here is the 15th installment of the Guess The Word Game.

I’m hoping this one will be tough!!!!

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Rubik’s Cube (CubeCheater iPhone App)

I had a Rubik’s Cube back in Russia and learned how to solve it with some formulas.  I remember things like FLFLULUL or RUBBUB… oh I can’t remember then now!  Anyway.. I thought this iPhone Application called CubeCheater looks pretty awesome!   It uses the Kociemba algorithm, which I guess is impossible to do mentally, right?

You can get it here in the iTunes store.

Associated Press

The Associated Press did a 6 minute television special about me and what I do, how I do it, etc.  Starting today, this special goes out to over 200 countries!  So keep an eye out and let me know if you see it in your area!  I have not seen it yet, so let me know what you thought of it!

Also, let me know what show you saw it on so that I can try to get a copy from them.

Here I am on Polish TV.

The Netherlands.

On Arabic Television.

Here is a French version (I especially like the Marvin Gaye music in the background )

Here it is on Korean Television.

Here is a version in English: