Ahoy, friends (I will explain this later). This week I learned the 30th happiest facts of all time, thanks to BuzzFeed. I won’t list all 30 of them, just a few of my favorites.

1. The Space Jam website has not changed since it was created back in 1996. Just to let you know how long ago that was, 1996 was the year of the Macarena. The Space Jam website may have been the bees knees in 1996, but now it totally sucks. You can’t play any games, you can’t listen to the amazing soundtrack (The Space Jam soundtrack is the second most amazing movie soundtrack of all time, after Grease). All you can do now is see how crappy the site is.

2. A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance,” and a group of pugs is called a “grumble.” These are both great words for a group of specific animals. These are way better than calling your group a “pack” or “school.”

3. Turtles can breath through their butt. This one is weird and strange, but I guess it’s good to know. In case you ever have to drown an evil turtle, just make sure the butt is underwater too.

4. Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to greet each other by saying “Ahoy!” when they pick up the phone. This is not what happened at all. We started with a simple “Hello,” but we have downgraded to things like “Hey,” “Yo,” and “What???” Let’s bring back “Ahoy.” I’m sure if people start saying “Ahoy” when answering their phone, it will quickly catch on. Then, Alexander Graham Bell will be sleeping sound in his grave.

5. Butterflies taste with their feet. Butterflies must not eat much, because everything they try must taste like feet. No one wants to eat things that taste like feet. It would probably be like eating old cheese from Whole Foods (Yes, I’m calling you out Whole Foods. I recently bought some Brie at Whole Foods and when I opened it the next day it was already bad and tasted like feet).

This week I learned a lot, and it was all thanks to this link. I love to learn, especially when it’s weird stuff that makes you smile. Till next week lads.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-happiest-facts-of-all-time

This week I learned that I am way behind in life. By that I mean, my friends are getting their life together, doing big things, getting married and I’m still stuck in school figuring my life out. I’ve known this for a while, but yesterday it really hit me (I’ll get to the actual event where it hit me in a bit).

I have friends who are married and engaged. Last year, I went to my good friend’s wedding. It didn’t hit me there, because she’s a girl. Girl’s get married before boys, it’s math. Girls usually marry older dudes, which means I still have time (I think).

One of my best friends just got married. My first close, dude friend to get married. Now I feel the pressure. My best friend is married. This now makes me the “single friend.” I can still hang out with them, but not as much as before. I have to call before I just show up to their home.

I was at school yesterday and I sent my newly married friend a message to see what he was up to later. He answered with, “Oh I’m just gonna go to the Grove to watch two people get engaged. What you gonnna do?”

My answer was not as cool as it should’ve been, “Oh sweet, I gotta go to Target and get a Nerf gun after class.” Everyone knows that Nerf guns are awesome, but this was the moment I realized I am way behind. People are getting married, and I’m still playing with Nerf guns (On an unrelated note, it only took me about two minutes to lose the first flying disc from my Nerf gun. Why is it so easy to lose those things?).

The good thing about this advertising career is that I won’t ever have to grow up. I can play with Nerf guns and video games until I die. Hopefully, I will find a girl who lets me stay a kid and loves me for who I am (If not, whatever…).

This week I learned that little Michelle Tanner, from the 90’s sitcom Full House, was actually played by not one, but both Olsen twins. I have so many questions now, hopefully Google has answers.

How many dogs did it take to play Comet throughout the years?

I was amazed to find out that Comet was only played by one dog, Buddy. However, it took two Olsens to play Michelle Tanner. Buddy was born in 1988 and died on February 11, 1998, due to cancer. Buddy still had a wonderful life, he was not only Comet on Full House for most of his life, he also played Air Bud in the first film, the good one.

Nicky and Alex were played by a set of twins, Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit. They quit acting after Full House and just wanted to live a normal life. According to IMDb at least one of them graduated from high school in 2010, Blake. I’m sure their creepy TV uncle, Bob Saget, was an influence in their exit from acting.

Back to the main reason I started writing about Full House, Michelle Tanner and the Olsen twins. The Olsens were only chosen for the part of Michelle because they were the only set of twins who didn’t cry during auditions. So, all of these Fox Family Olsen twin TV movies were a result of holding in their tears during their Full House audition.

Another thing I wonder about is if the Olsen twins were paid less than the other actors. The two of them only played one character, it wouldn’t be fair for each of them to get the same amount of money as Uncle Jesse or Danny Tanner, who had to play their characters 100% of the time (I would imagine Lindsay Lohan got paid double for the Parent Trap). I guess it doesn’t really matter, since whatever money they did make went to their parents anyways.

Random Disclaimer: I actually knew that Michelle Tanner was played by both Olsens the whole time, but thanks to my research I learned a few new things. Thanks Google. Also, RIP Buddy aka Comet

This week I learned that the Harlem Shake had made a comeback, although it wasn’t really the Harlem Shake at all. I learned about the Harlem Shake back in the late 90s or early 2000s, when P. Diddy (or Puff Daddy or was it just Diddy at the time?) featured it in one of his videos.

I did some research (wikipedia) and learned that it was actually invented in the 80s, brought back with Diddy (or whatever his name is), and now they are saying it’s the new thing.

This Harlem Shake is completely different though.In the new version, one person dances while the other people try to act totally normal, for 15 seconds. After this everyone goes crazy for another 15 seconds. In the song they give a shout out to terrorists, which is not cool. This Baauer guy should be background checked, to make sure he’s cool. I don’t trust him at all. I don’t trust any of these robot DJs (not Skillrex, not Avicii, not Daft Punk, not DeadMauFive).

The old Harlem Shake is way better, because there is actual shaking involved. You pretend that your upper body is having a seizure, or at least that’s how it looks. The new version doesn’t really involve any shaking or Harlem. The new version involves a lot of air humping and strange costumes. I am not a fan.

They made a Harlem Shake video at school the other day, and I missed out because I got kidnapped by the dirty Italian kid. So, maybe I don’t hate this new Harlem Shake craze, maybe I’m just jealous because I didn’t get to be in the video. Oh well, this will soon die and I will be in the video for the next big thing (or I will make my own Harlem Shake video, that will kick every other Harlem Shake video in the nuts).

This week I discovered Siri Dictation on my iPhone  (I will call it, “Siri Speak and Spell”). I wrote this article by speaking to Siri in the car, while she took notes. Below is an edited version, as well as the original version of Siri’s notes. Please enjoy:

Edited Version:

This week I learned to use “Siri Speak and Spell” on my iPhone. Basically, it works by you talking to your iPhone and Siri attempts to write out what you’re saying. She usually fails miserably to do so correctly. It’s perfect when you’re in the car. It’s awesome for Texting and driving, Twittering and driving or just taking notes while driving.

It’s helpful because I come up with ideas driving home, once I leave class. Now I don’t have to risk my life to remember my great ideas. I can now use “Siri Speak and Spell” and look over it later, but I always choose to look over and edit my ideas while driving. So maybe this whole thing is pointless.

Siri usually messes up horribly. Just look below, what the hell is a Mossock or a SolaRola? That is nothing near what I was trying to say. It does work as a good encryption technique, because I am the only one who can understand Siri’s notes.

I used “Siri Speak and Spell” to write this article, while driving, but now I’m editing and changing the everything. Don’t even think about grammar when using “Siri Speak and Spell” because Siri never took those classes in middle school (If she even went to school). She just recognizes sounds and records them.

This article was basically an experiment to see how well Siri could interpret my thoughts into writing. Overall, Siri did a good job. I was able to remember the general idea I was thinking about while driving. I would like to thank the great people at Apple for this sweet technology.

Thank you Steve Jobs, Tim Cook and Gaby.

Siri’s Version:

This week I learned about the whole speak and spell thing on the iPhone sold the whole thing is you just talk to your iPhone and it writes out what you’re saying it’s really good when you’re driving for texting and driving twittering and driving just writing notes and driving all that stuff

It’s really helpful because I come up with ideas for class a lot leaving school while driving and now I don’t have to write terminals crashing to other people I can just say them and the phone will take the notes and later I can look over them and fix it up or whatever just leave it out

Mossock I gets what I’m saying totally wrong fucks everything up doesn’t know what I’m trying to say but usually I can read what I said and I can put all together here so that’s pretty cool

Right now I’m using it to write this article will post tomorrow and looking straight ahead of the road watching the road I speak and it writes it down the grammar in this article is very horrible is it me know. Probably I don’t know I’m do about that organ have to figure it out

SolaRola’s articles like experiment to see how this shit will work and later maybe I’ll fix it up we’ll just have to see I hope we can post both ways the Shadyway and the right way just to show you it’s really cool technology so thank you Apple FAQs Siri and thank you Gabby

This week I learned what Pinterest is. I’m still not totally sure what it does or what it is for, but I’m pretty confident I know what it is. Pinterest is a place, on the internet, where girls post things they like, want or need.

Basically, Pinterest is a place for girlfriends to drop hints about what they want from their boyfriends (It probably won’t work because most of their boyfriends aren’t on it).

Since joining Pinterest, I have yet to “pin” anything, unless I did so on accident. I have gained followers and I have followed people, but I don’t understand why. I hope to explore it a bit more to answer my many unanswered questions.

This week Pinterest went from 10% males to 10.001% thanks to our Pinterest-specific assignment for class. I am glad we have a woman on our team to answer all of our questions about what one can and cannot do on Pinterest.

I like that I can search for any random topic or category and get back unlimited results. I just searched “Chocolate Squirrel” and over 100 pins came up. I even got one with the top ten Anchorman quotes (The chocolate squirrel quote was not on the poster, however it did get an honorable mention in the description).

I guess if you want to know if your “great new invention” has been invented yet, you use Pinterest (or Google). Let’s say you come up with an invention like “Baby Chicken Sweaters.” Well, now before spending your life savings to produce these tiny sweaters, you can check Pinterest to see if someone has already done this.

Damn! At least five people have already successfully knit “Baby Chicken Sweaters.” My new goal on Pinterest is to come up with a search entry that will come up with Zero pins (other than Porn stuff, because there is no nudity on Pinterest, yet).

This week I saw Silver Linings Playbook. Don’t worry, this isn’t a spoiler, I just wanted to let you know what I discovered while watching it. Just from seeing the previews, you will notice that B. Coops is in this film. Also, he is a crazy person. By that I mean he was in a mental institution, and that is all I am going to tell you about the movie. One more thing, it was a great movie and I recommend you go see it.

Now onto my life lesson, watching this movie I realized why people are crazy. Sometimes life can be full of stress and someone can just fall off the wagon. It can happen out of nowhere, or one small thing can trigger something that’s been in the back of your mind forever. It usually isn’t really your fault, some people’s sanity is tested over and over, until finally they snap and just do something insane. When put into that situation, most people would do the same.

I don’t stress over much, but there are two instances that usually stress me out. One is obviously while driving. I mean, I live in Miami, a city full of the worst drivers from every country. I’m not saying I’m a good driver, but I do pay attention to the road, most of the time. The second thing that really stresses me out is video games. Driving and video games bring out the worst in me (you don’t even want to see me while playing a driving video game!).

The other day I was playing my FIFA career. I was the Chelsea manager. Apparently, the X-Box Kinect can hear you when you play, like a spy in your living room. Also, you are supposed to conduct yourself like a decent human being while playing FIFA.

My Chelsea team was on a slump, and after one of my games I received an email about my managers on field conduct. I don’t control the manager, I thought to myself.  After two more games, I received another email. That’s when I realized, they were talking about me. Finally, I was fired as manager of Chelsea FC.

I immediately switched to Madden, because you can say whatever you want. In America coaches and managers say whatever the F**k they want, whether it’s to a player, coach or a referee. Although, cursing at a referee may have some serious consequences.

My Madden game went fine. I got angry, yelled at the TV, scored some virtual touchdowns, but in the end I won and received no emails from the virtual commissioner. I went back to FIFA and started a new season with Chelsea. I am currently working on my behavior while playing video games, at least FIFA. Now in the car, that’s a different stories. If you see me driving behind you don’t be a F&@king @$$h@#$!

Ferdi Rodriguez