More news coming on Universal Hub

By adamg on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:17pm

Say hello to Oliver Blake, Universal Hub's new intern, who started today:

Hello all my name is Oliver Blake, I am an aspiring journalist from Boston. I am an incoming freshman at Ithaca College and I will soon be graduating from Fenway High School, located in Mission Hill. Feel free to reach out.

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Welcome!

By Tim Mc. on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:57pm.

Looking forward to seeing your posts. :-)

Welcome aboard

By what what now? on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 10:11pm.

Be sure to pick up Adam's penchant for bad rhyming headlines to the stories.

I have alerted him

By adamg on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 10:45pm.

To the requirement on MBTA-delay stories.

Congratulations

By mg on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 10:25pm.

Welcome to the UHub family!

Congrats and Welcome!

By riggs not logged in on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 10:37pm.

Adam, congrats for your continued success here. Oliver, welcome and best wishes as you move from high school to college!

First Story Idea

By Username Unknown on Tue, 04/25/2023 - 10:52pm.

Do a piece on the disrespectful kids that toss all of their trash from Dunks and the corner market on Parker Street as they walk to Fenway High in the morning. Then interview folks that live near the school that have tried to speak to these kids about this only to be told to eff off by them or even threatened.

are you truly surprised that

By anon on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 7:54am.

are you truly surprised that a bunch of fifteen-year-olds laughed at you when you told them not to litter. this is what teenagers do.

That's not what they all do

By Username Unknown on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 1:15pm.

Most of the students at Fenway High are very respectful and come and go peacefully. Others are beyond rude and disrecptpful to those that reside in this neighborhood.

It goes well beyond laughing at some adult for asking them not to litter. These kids threaten you life for asking them to be a good person. The school take zero responsibility for what happens in the area while their students are coming and going.

Okay but this is about

By yrennalf on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 2:02pm.

Okay but this is about congratulating a specific young man on an exciting opportunity. This hijacking is inappropriate and misplaced.

Congratulations again, Oliver!

How about all of the

By anon on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:21am.

How about all of the disrespectful adults that do the same thing?

How about...

By Cola on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 11:53am.

Oliver writes a story about all the local college students that use the front of his school as a dumping ground for their beer cans, solo cups, and trash?

Welcome!

By Rob on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 1:21am.

Welcome!

Congrats and welcome

By dsh on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 5:56am.

This is cool.

Magoo sez

By MisterMagooForYou on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 6:23am.

Ah, youngling welcome to the world of Uhubbering. The question presents itself, are you a flat earther or dost though believe we live in a virtual reality matrix style world. Magoo knowz the answer to these riddles. Magoo knowz. Magoo.

And now I await

By jmeltzer on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:15am.

the postings by _Magoo's_ intern.

Hoorah!

By oddjob60 on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 8:27am.

I've often wondered how Adam does everything he does on this site, so I'm super glad to see he's got some extra hands. And Adam, does this mean you'll get some summer vacation time?

Welcome!

By ChrisF on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 8:32am.

Welcome to the site!

Consider yourself

By Kaz on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:05am.

Video won't play...

By what what now? on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:16am.

but with the little clue of your comment start being "Consider yourself", I'm going to fill in the blank and say "Part of the family"

Fixed

By Kaz on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 1:31pm.

Sorry, initially I used the YouTube sharing link, but Adam's Drupal extension to let you embed YouTube videos needs the old-school "watch" URL instead.

Welcome!

By John on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:33am.

Welcome, Oliver!

A few tips for you:

By MC Slim JB on Wed, 04/26/2023 - 10:54am.

* Don't use no double negatives.
* Make each pronoun agree with their antecedent.
* Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
* About them sentence fragments.
* When dangling watch your participles.
* Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
* Just between you and I, case is important too.
* Don't write no run-on sentences they are hard to read.
* Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
* Try to not split infinitives.
* It is important to use apostrophe's correctly.
* Proofread your writing to if any words out.
* Correct spelling is esential.
* It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too it's hers: it isn't her's. It isn't our's either: it's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
* As a general rule of thumb, cross out every word you have written. You have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

H/T to Brit wit Gyles Brandreth.