Everybody Is a Star

After reading Pete's post the other day where he suggested refusing plastic bags unless you actually need 'em, I felt motivated to find an equally simple and effective way to do my part for the planet.

Here's what the Verbungle Eco Team has come up with: The Nadjective. From now on (beginning with the next paragraph, in fact) I will merge all my nouns with the adjectives that precede them. For instance, "hairy balls" will become "hairyballs". Every time I do this, I am eliminating one character space from whatever I am typing.

Our team did some calculations and here's what they found: if nadjectives replaced every "adjective space noun" in a givendocument, that document would become on average .000002 percent shorter. Doesn't sound like much, does it? But remember, the goal is to get the entireworld using nadjectives as soon as possible. When you multiple that .000002 percent by all the documents created and printed in a given year, including books, you would get a tree savings the equivalent of 19 Amazon rainforests per annum -- which also means we'd have 19 Amazon rainforests less paper per year (PPY) floating around in various garbage dumps and/or gathering on the corner of office desks awaiting signatures.

Anyone failing to comply with these newregulations could be fined or imprisoned.

We are also trying to find otherspaces that could be removed. One area we are looking at is propernames. For the sake of the planet, I'd be happy as HansBungle. Please share any other potentialexamples you can think of.

I was thinking today that it might be fun to do a communityblog like FJM. It would be exciting if like four or five of us had access to thatblog. Then when you woke up in the morning to check the blog, there could be a new and wonderfulpost from any of the contributors. Perhaps we'll turn verbungle into such a site. I am into collaboration, I don't need to be the straw that stirs the drink. I am sort of like Sly Stone in that regard. I want to see everybody shine. Anyone into this?

I had a lot of ideas for stuff today and I wrote most of it down so it'll be coming soon. One idea I have is, in lieu of New Year's Resolutions, I will create an AA-type list of amends I need to make in my lifetime. But since I don't have the energy to think of 'em all at once, I will instead post one every other day or so.

So today I'd like to apologize to MDilly for the time we poured that icewater on your ___.

Actually I'm proud of that. This is going to be tougher than I thought.

I guess I should start watching the Knicks, huh?

For ten genius points, whodat?