Today, I recall a certain discussion I recently had with old friend and long time mentor, Dr. Howard Stein. Howard was sharing a story about a former student who, frustrated with her progress at the end of the semester, confronted Howard after class at his lectern and asked in a loud voice that the rest of the class could hear, “What do you want from me?!”
There’s nothing more annoying than having people mispronounce the year. It started in 2010 when people actually said out loud, “Two Thousand and Ten” to identify the year. It’s even worse this year when people say, “Two Thousand and Eleven.” Here is the correct way to pronounce those years: “Twenty Ten” and “Twenty Eleven.” This “proper year pronunciation” is such a big problem that fellow WordPress.com-er Gus Pearcy created a blog — SAY Twenty Eleven — just to set people right; and I have borrowed one of Gus’ images to help spread the appropriate learning meme:
I remember a time when, as a kid, getting candy OUT of your hair was a major, momentary, catastrophe that was only resolvable with a pair of scissors. The resultant bald patch was your mark of dishonor for playing so poorly with such sticky candy. I was, of course, curious to read about the recent Jolly Rancher in Your Hair Affair where a mother purposefully put Jolly Rancher candy in her child’s hair and then sent said child off to school for photo day. Here’s a random image of what “Your Hair in Jolly Ranchers” looks like:
Sometimes, wacky technical ideas belong deposited straight in the dustbin and should never make it into actual production — or on a public web page. Meet the “Bite Me” hearing aid — okay, it’s actually called “SoundBite” but “Bite Me” is a so much more fulfilling meme — considering the silliness of the product. The Bite Me hearing aid sits on your teeth to better conduct sound. I wonder if their slogan is: “Clench and Listen” or “Bear Down and Hear Harder” or “Shut Up and Bite Me!”
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Playwrights and cartoonists understand all decisions have repercussions. The only things that do not know the repercussions of decisions are animals and young children.
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