People often perform tasks measurably better when the tools they’re using put them in a state of enthused confidence. You are right to consider this statement obvious, but obvious statements are no more immune to being run through the gamut and deconstructed into their atomic elements than are ambiguous ones. Moreover, it is the humor…
Communicating a message using absolute terms leaves a stronger impression than if relative terms are used, but also makes the message more susceptible to failing under the scrutiny of fact-checkers. Words like “all”, “always”, and “every” usually trump words like “usually”, “most”, and “often”, as far as a message’s penetrating potential is concerned. You’ll note…
B) wins. -Light your pipe, darling, the fire would like to see an ember of its family from a distance. He had been observing his fingers pack moist Westminster Blend into the bowl. Leaving them to work blindly, he looked up and caught the latter portion of what had been a wry smile on her…
Two helicopters hovered near each other in the sky this evening. It was more than twice as noteworthy a sight than a single helicopter. It was, therefore, an affirmation of the validity of the sometimes true notion that the Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts (WIGTTSOIP). In this universe of duality, however,…
Water droplets suspended in the air congregate on the surface of a newly towel-dried body. Taking a shower in a humid environment without using the bathroom fan is asking for sticky clothes or bedsheets, whichever you might be slipping into after the clean. Getting into bed fully clothed, like the main character of my favorite…
Several months ago on the radio there was an interview with a scholarly-type fellow regarding the origin of laughter in pre-humans. Sorry about the series of words ending with the phoneme /o/ in the previous sentence; one of the twins from the prior post still lingers. The interviewee theorized that the earliest instances of what…
1. People tend towards talking about things in absolute terms because doing otherwise requires more energy-consuming real estate in the brain. 2. Some people live according to a fortress of rules that they build for themselves. Combining 1 + 2 can yield resolute resolve across a myriad of topics, currency chief among them, such as…
Some of the people who spend time in my field of view are such colorful characters that they demand formal documentation, much like Darwin upon discovery of a new species in the Gálapagos. I once saw a lost mariner drowning in the disorientation that is solid land. Thin, small, middle-aged and unshaven, he scampered aimlessly,…
Before discarding as completely useless a belief you don’t believe in, consider its worth as entertainment. Unproveable yet deeply held convictions, and variations on them, can represent fertile ground for quality daydreaming. Consider the premise of an all-knowing god who orchestrates everything, from people’s decisions to where on the ground a falling leaf will land….
One of the staples of air travel is selling out to a corporate giant: every refreshment napkin received on this trip prominently featured Coca-Cola. Delta’s napkins could’ve even come from a restaurant, as the airline had no presence on them whatsoever. Instead, two red coke bottles bordered by fireworks bursts and the words “open happiness”…
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