Monthly Archives: January 2011

There are some words have have been so misused…abused…and debased by advertising that they simply don’t mean anything anymore. I’m thinking of words like: free…custom…special…personal…unique…full…I’m sure you can add to this list. And it’s still happening…take on demand. It started … Continue reading →

I’ve loved Mathematics all my life…the original plan was to be a high school math teacher…and it comes pretty easy to me, for the most part. At the same time, I understand the roots of “math anxiety,” because some of … Continue reading →

It’s the little things in life that count, like a mystery letter in the mail. The other day I got one all the way from Luxembourg, with a name in the hand-written return address that I didn’t recognize. What’s more, … Continue reading →

Call me a nudnik, but it was another of those cosmic coincidences that I think are kinda cool. Back on 1/19, item 6 of my other blog Deep-Fried Hoodsie Cups (link at right, under Blogroll) I linked to a John … Continue reading →

My old HP printer finally bit the dust. I have a pretty strong streak of brand loyalty in me…plus that’s all Wally-Mart had was HP…and while I sort of planned to get the cheapest one, I ultimately didn’t. Same thing … Continue reading →

I’m not saying -30 wasn’t cold…of course it was…I mean, to eat your words, you had to let them thaw out first. But to put it in perspective, an expert in cold-weather horticulture said in the paper that you have … Continue reading →

For some people, a pet peeve is comedians who laugh to their own jokes. Me, I never had a problem with…well, off the top of my head…Red Skelton, Steve Allen, guys like that who would crack themselves up. The Carol … Continue reading →

You see this and you wonder, Geez, don’t they make prunes? Liar, liar, dried fruit on fire? Well, to the extent that being misleading is lying….we all have a different BS threshold, after all…this really is a lie. The plums … Continue reading →

Spent an extree long time in the supermarket checkout line yesterday…got behind not 1 but 2 “special needs” customers…and I don’t mean handicapped…I mean “custom orders,” with the accompanying confusion and hubbub. Me, I just put down my stuff, throw … Continue reading →

Just when I thought I’d heard of everything…got a snail-mail letter from Google…a come-on for some sort of ad service they provide. Dig the carefully worded BS…or as we sometimes call it CM…Craptastic Mishegos: “You choose the terms your target … Continue reading →