I was in a fast food restaurant the other day with a friend when I realized there is a specific reason for creating combination orders. I had always thought the reason for “order by the number” was for speed, but now I have a different notion.
We all work to try to keep out brains alive through our eyes, and there’s a new way of creating fresh pathways of understanding — and it is delivered to us from afar via our old friend, William Shakespeare using language and “Functional Shifts” found in his plays.
As a relatively new parent, I have to cringe a little bit when other parents ask me certain questions about parenting. Specifically, when they ask me how I am going to approach “potty training” — that term just puts me into a bit of upset. I have yet to find any person who can give me a solid reason why a silly childish term had to be created when a real term — toilet — was already there. In Florida, the equivalent of the “potty training” substitution is happening on the House floor. State representative Scott Randolph, in part of his argument against union dues being deducted from the paychecks of state employees, used the word “uterus” — and apparently it upset a few people in the House. Randolph was asked to kindly not discuss body parts while on the floor of the House.
Continue reading → In Utero: Getting Reprimanded for Science in Florida
It’s funny how quickly colloquial street insults can change. We know — “Whatever” is the New “F-You” — but did you know that “Really?” has become the new “Whatever?”
Continue reading → really? Really? REALLY? is the New "Whatever."
I recently quit the correcting game and stopped correcting people out loud when they made mistakes. SuperGenius David Boles suggested that I should write down the errors and blog about them since stoppering them internally would do me no good. Without further ado, please enjoy the following corrections — For The Record…
The New York Yankees are the most successful franchise in the history of sport — and they deserve to have a non-xenophobe as their main television play-by-play announcer and as the host of CenterStage on YES.
Janna and I have been professionally teaching American Sign Language — Hardcore ASL — online for over five years. We use video chat, movies, images and one-on-one interaction with our students to bring home the learning even though we’re far apart. In a similar want to teach and learn, the famous “Foreign Service Institute” series of language courses are now on the internet for download and you can learn a new language at your own speed and in your own space.
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