If we all used less …
we’ve have more to go around.
Month: March 2008
Spam Spellchecker
I don’t understand why I get spam with so many misspelled words. Just add a spellchecker and kick out the messages with the most misspelled words. C’mon, it can’t be that sticking numbers in words makes them spellcheck-proof. That seems fixable. Seriously, how does this crap get through? C ANA1DIAN PH A5RMACY SPE3CIAL V8I AG8R Read More …
Natoinal Tpyo Doy
Wh y nto? Veryting ese hass a da.
Steal These Lyrics: It’s Only Love
I wrote these lyrics some time ago and I don’t know why. So, yes, certainly, somebody feel free, if you agree, to steal these lyrics and turn them into a song. It’s only love, don’t you care … Just ordinary, boring love … It’s only love, for those who dare feel ordinary, boring love Sure Read More …
Seeking UCLA’s X Swami X
This isn’t an idea, it’s a plea. Anybody out there ever hear of an X Swami X who spoke at UCLA back in the early ’70s? Of course, I’m contacting UCLA as well. But this guy was a riot. Profane but profound. The guru of the blue view. Took “Make Love Not War” right to Read More …
‘Lost’: Land of the Living Dead
You know why pilot Frank didn’t see a wedding ring on the hand of the waterlogged pilot’s corpse? Because the body will turn out to be Frank’s. On Thursday’s show, the freighter captain shows Sayid and Desmond the black box flight recorder from the bottom-of-the-sea wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 and says someone went to a lot of trouble to fill Read More …
Types of Aphorisms 2
How could I have overlooked photographorisms? These would be pictures that illustrate sayings. Like a penny going into a piggy back be a photographisms for “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Except it’s not exactly as snappy, is it? Hmmm. True photographisms would be more than a picture, they’d precisely communicate a thought. And Read More …
Baseball Bat Canes
“Saw” this idea while walking in Philadelphia. Man was using a cane. But for some reason I got this image of a combo cane and baseball bat. Probably because a hint of spring was in the air, and I was thinking, wouldn’t it be nice to play a little baseball? Then, I thought, could also Read More …
Halforisms, Laughorisms and Others Kinds of Aphorisms
Paragraphorisms: Wordy words of wisdom that take several sentences. Epitaphorisms: Clever final words suitable for tombstones. Laughorisms: Funny sayings. //*bant — that sorry-buzzer sound. a Google search reveals this was originally coined, same idea, by Ambrose Bierce.// Caraforisms: Thoughts under the influence. Stafforisms: Sayings common in workplaces. Girafforisms: (a) Perspectives from high places, (b) sayings Read More …
The More Things Change …
… the closer I get to a nervous breakdown.
A Better Answer to a Vos Savant Puzzle
In Sunday’s Parade magazine, Marilyn Vos Savant’s column posed a puzzle: What four positive numbers have a sum that is equal to their product? Meaning: a + b + c + d = a x b x c x d. Then she gives the answer as 1, 1, 2 and 4. Uh, not to nitpick, but Read More …