That’s right. We have wireless.
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It’s Alive! Alive!
That’s right. We have wireless.
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Get Out There and VOTE!
Exercise your right to vote. Too many people worked unbelievably hard so that we could take it for granted. So don’t take it for granted; let your voice be heard.
It’s important.
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Idiots on Parade
Yesterday Mr. Sandwich and I were driving to the house. The car in front of us was being driven by someone who was on his cell phone. This is illegal in California now, but why let that stop you? Except that it wasn’t a phone. It was an electric razor.
That’s right. Some guy was shaving his head while driving 70 mph on the freeway.
Today I took the bus to work, as I do. And after a few minutes I became aware that someone behind me on the bus was calling his credit card company. Apparently he wanted to cancel his credit card protection plan. I couldn’t make out his mother’s maiden name, although I do know that he lives a block down the street from us. And I know this because he thought the bus was a good place to hold this conversation.
I thought it was an ironic place to hold it. So when he was given another number to call in order to lower his interest rate (21 percent, BTW), I got up, went back, and asked if he was sure he wanted to conduct this business on the bus.
He said, “Oh, it’s okay,” and I said, “Really? Because I can hear you way up in the front of the bus, and this is a really public place. You have no way of knowing if someone is going to use this information.” And then he said, again, “No, it’s okay. Thanks.”
So I left him to get his identity stolen, since clearly that was his goal for the day.
Why are there so many idiots on the move? I don’t know, but trust me. If you do something this stupid, I will tweet about it on Twitter. And 12 people will read about it.
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The End is Near
It must be. I can understand the late-season heat wave we just got through. On its own.
But nothing can explain the prediction of rain for tomorrow. This is not January. And when you put late-season heat wave and early rain together, well, something is up. I’m just saying.
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It’s October, Right?
So why is it 86 degrees at 7:30 at night lately?
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24-hour Typo Network
What is going on at CNN Headline News? And when did they fire all of their copyeditors?
A couple of months ago, Mr. Sandwich and I noticed that one of the on-screen labels misspelled “Kazakhstan.” Then, a day or two later, they misspelled “Christiane Amanpour.”
No big deal. She’s only one of their star journalists. She’s only worked there for years.
And this isn’t in the crawl, which at least (ostensibly) might be something that gets thrown together on the fly. (Although clearly it isn’t limited to breaking news, so I’m cutting them quite a bit of slack here.)
No, this is in labels. The captions that just sit there at the beginning of a story. The ones that, say, identify the star journalist reporting the story.
At this point, I thought about starting a blog dedicated to pointing out typos on CNN Headline News. Then I realized that I would have to watch a lot more CNN, and I’m just not willing to do that.
But I figured I’d at least write a post about this shoddy presentation. Because what did I see this morning? The word “follwoing.”
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Just in Case You Thought You Could Escape the Election
I’m pretty sure, though, that they’ve got the stacks on the wrong sides.
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What Kind of Flower Am I?
I am a
Canna
What Flower
Are You?“You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that.”
Meanwhile, I have no idea where I’d find one of these.
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Wordle
A word cloud based on this blog, courtesy of Get Your Wellies On!
© 2008 Jonathan Feinberg subscribe Creative Commons License
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What Kind of Cereal am I?
You Are Cheerios
Like other Cheerios eaters, you want to be a responsible adult.
But you can’t help but still be a kid at heart!You try to make good decisions. You’re a clean cut, conscientious person.
You’re the type of person who would never skip breakfast.Part of you thinks that breakfast is too important to miss…
But a bigger part of you knows it’s too fun to miss!
I have to say that this isn’t really a surprise. I love Cheerios.
