LATE NIGHT BEDA POST NUMBER 7 APRIL 20TH MY MIND SHE IS BLOWN

WHAT.

THE.

CRAP?

So, I’m up at 3:00, when I have at least one, possibly two tests tomor… well, in 6 hours.  And I’m whiling away the time playing flash games and listening to LRRCasts.  LRRCasts are the official podcast of Loading Ready Run, which is a Canadian internet sketch comedy series that post a new, and almost always hilarious, video each week.  And sometimes more.

Anywho, they mentioned the 30 Years’ War, and one guy said that the 30 Years’ War actually lived up to it’s name, unlike the 100 Years’ War.  And I had known that the HYW was over 100 years long, but I went to Wikipedia just to find out exactly how long it was.  And then I was met with this mind-blowing piece of information:

The Hundred Years’ War (French: Guerre de Cent Ans) was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings.

Let me just say that again.  THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR, one of the most famous non-crusade wars  that happened after the fall of Rome and before the Industrial Revolution, was started in the year of our Lord 1337.  If you don’t understand the signifgance of that number you need to get inside more often.

1337 is a common internet word, from the internet alphabet of leetspeak.  1337 looks like the word leet, see?  1 = l, 3 = e, 4 = a, 5 = s, 6 = G, 0 = o.  And leet is a shortening of the word elite, which is spelled in leetspeak (also abbreviated to just 1337) 31337, and was just shortened to 1337.  To put it another way, Espanol is to Spanish as 1337 is to 1337.  Espanol is an espanol word, or, in English, a Spanish word, meaning Spanish.  However, 1337 is just an alphabet switch, so it can be a bit more confusing.

Anywho, 1337 is a general internet way of saying someone or something is good, it meets your approval, that it is “elite”.  I’ve seen this word so often, that when it’s actually used as a number, it throws me off, and to find out that probably the most famous number in all of internet culture is also the year that one of the most famous wars in human history began…

Well, it blew my gorram mind.

In other news, I have two episodes left of Firefly to watch, and that’s making me sad.

Now… possible sleeps?

Hour 12: Reader’s Digest Is T3H Funny

Sorry about the last couple official check-ins being very, very short.  So, I took the bus home, got there at about 8:20, checked my email, Facebook, Twitter, stuff like that, then got pulled into a UStream chat with the Headmistress of The Leaky Cauldron, a huge Harry Potter fansite.  And then I was going to do a longer post, but then I ended up watching “Harold and Maude”, and old film made in the 70′s, about a young dude and an old bird who attend funerals as a hobby.  Very, very funny.

Then I spent about half an hour killing ants, and thinking that “Poisoned Caulking” would be a good band name.  Around that time I started to feel tired, so I broke into the Vault, which really hasn’t affected me on way or another.  It’s not a good sign that I’m tired already, but I think it’s more that I know I’m going to be very tired later, and my body is exhausted in advance.  Hopefully tomorrow goes better.

Since then, I’ve been hanging out online, and I recorded the following video, about Reader’s Digest:

See you in 2 hours!