Signs Redux: Truth In Advertising
Wait...hazardous plants? What, like this:
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They Aren't Rewards...
Found online So we've been noticing these little reward offers on products. EVERYTHING has some kind of reward. The backs of receipts have "complete this survey and you might win a thousand dollars." Sheesh... Last thing was on some Pampers wipes that we keep around ('cause we are messy people, okay?). So there's this little code on a little coupon you have to redeem for point. Okay. Wait, you have to join the rewards points tribe or circle or community or something. Sigh. Okay. I'll use Lori's email address (after all, she handed me the coupon). Password has to be between 8-14 characters and contain at least one letter and one number...argh, that's a 15 letter password. No you can't have my actual birth date, but I'll give you something close, sort of. Okay, ten minutes later and the click submit code...oops, missed a letter on the code...argh. I can't just insert a letter? I have to type it again...sigh... Okay, there we go. 30 po...
Writers Write... Doctors Don't Doct...
From Morguefile I subscribe to A Word A Day emails - I get a "new" word every day - it's about 50/50 whether or not I've encountered the words before, but I enjoy the definitions, the little explorations of meaning, the reminder that some of these words exist. Most weeks the words are on a theme - like nouns we've made verbs ("Google that for me" anyone? or "Friend me"). A while ago it was Eponyms - words derived from someone's name (yeah, I had NO idea that "mentor" came from, what, Telemachus's adviser from The Odyssey ? Who knew? Well, okay, probably lots of people knew that... I didn't, however). In the intro came this kind of unrelated bit: Actors act, curators curate, and orators orate. But doctors don't doct * , victors don't vict, and pastors don't past. Such is the English language. And we certainly don't want ancestors to ancest, traitors to trait, or gators to gate. I loved that post ...
Signs Redux: Before And After
These are the coolest pair of signs ever. I mean, I don't know why Dr. Seuss is making road signs, but this is AWESOME!
Friday at the Movies...
From www.imdb.com Today's my day off and while doing a few other things around the house, I managed to watch most of two old movies I hadn't seen before. Turner Classic Movies has been honoring Elia Kazan because today's his birthday. I knew some of the big stuff he'd done, of course, On The Waterfront, Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden* and so on. A couple years ago Lori and I stayed up late and watched Sea of Grass with Tracy and Hepburn - decent enough movie, but miscast I thought. Anyway, this morning started with a movie called Boomerang! a "based on a true event" story about a murder of an episcopal priest and the subsequent investigation into the murder. The State Attorney General has some doubts about the state's case against the man they arrest, there's politics (and dirt, too - shocking, I know) and an interesting glimpse into late 40s police procedures (fictionalized, of course). It's a me...
