Vowels and Rainbows

Quick, which one of these letters is a vowel?

1. Y

2. B

3. W

If you guessed B, you're wrong. You might have been thinking of A. Just because B comes after A doesn't make it a vowel too.

If you guessed W, you're wrong. You might have been thinking of U. Unfortunately, two vowels do not make a vowel.

If you guessed Y, you're right! Just because Y isn't always a vowel doesn't mean that it's not a vowel at all. That's like someone saying that he doesn't like pizza if he doesn't like anchovies.

Y is often ignored as a vowel because it's overshadowed by the "pure" vowels. That's not fair. Y is a vowel too!

Another thing that gets ignored unfairly is indigo as a color of the rainbow. Haven't you heard of ROYGBIV? What do you think the I stands for? Look at the rainbow. There's two blues in there, blue and indigo.

Originally, it was considered that there was only 5 colors in the rainbow. Orange and indigo weren't included. Then Newton decided to split the rainbow into 7 colors. So if we consider orange a color of the rainbow, why do we ignore indigo?

And what about violet? People use it interchangeably with purple all the time. Violet is a pure wavelength of about 400 nanometers. Purple is a mixture of red and blue wavelengths used to close the gap in the color wheel. That's a big difference!

I don't know why, but I can't stand it when certain objects don't get the rights that they deserve. I guess that I'm the self appointed caretaker of rats and dust bunnies and vegetables and ignored vowels and colors. I am a strong supporter of equality for all inanimate objects. So remember, indigo is a color too.

Anyone can be a poet! (To varying degrees of proficiency)

I'm pretty good at a lot of the things that I do, so I decided to make a list of things that I'm not good at.

Basketball
Jump rope
Swimming
Pogo sticking
Skateboarding
Gargling
Poetry

Now poetry is an interesting subject. I'm not the best writer, and my poetry is always very cheesy. So I decided to write a poem just to see how bad it would be. Here is the result.


The Sky - Joseph Lawrence

The sun rises in the east
Giving tribute to the skies.

The birds fly up toward the air
Screeching out their cries.

The people down on the ground
Try to decide who to be.

But the answers never come because
Only by looking up we can see.


This turned out so hilariously cheesy that I decided to do a dramatic reading of the poem with background music. You can listen to it below.

Word of the Day: Insatiable

Insatiable: incapable of being satisfied.

When I was eating dinner tonight, I said that "my hunger was insatiable." Then I realized that I had no idea what that word meant and so I looked it up. It fit perfectly!

I ate three huge helpings of our seafood and noodle meal, but after an hour of eating I was still hungry. I must be going through another growth spurt. Pretty soon people who want to climb the tallest mountain will have to climb something other than Mt. Everest.

Joke of the Day

Two atoms were walking down the street. One tripped and fell. The other one asked, "Are you alright?"
The first atom answered, "I think I just lost an electron."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm positive!"

Dude!

This is my avatar for my XBox Live account. I think that he looks pretty cool. He seems to say, "Wazzup dude?" I want to look just like him someday.

Hymn of the Week

Today I opened the Hymn Book to a random page and I saw the hymn, "Did You Think to Pray?" I thought that there was probably something that I was supposed to learn from it because the Sunday School lesson that we just had was about prayer. As the hymn was going through my head, these lines caught my attention.

Oh, how praying rests the weary!
Prayer will change the night to day.

These lines seem to contradict each other. How can someone rest if it's always day? When I'm trying to sleep, the last thing I want is for the night to suddenly change to day. Every morning when my alarm clock goes off, I spend a few seconds asking the universe, "Why are you so mean to me?" and then I grunt and get out of bed. If anything, the nights need to be longer because I feel quite weary sometimes. I need my rest!