This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Jan
31
2013
I wonder why navy seals get all the publicity.
I think gray seals are just as good.
But if you think seals should be blue, here are some other options in the blue-ish family:
Cyan Seals:
Royal Blue Seals:
Aqua Seals:
And, my favorite name, Teal Seals:
It is changed like clay under the seal;
And they stand forth like a garment.
Job 38:14
Nov
8
2012
Deodorants are well named. Their names evoke connotations that relate well to their purpose and sway you to buy them (or at least think favorably of them). I thought I would invert their names and see what happened.
We’ll start with an easy one:
Speed Stick
versus
Oct
15
2012
Pretty much all the road signs used to be words that people could read. Then, for a variety of reasons such as accommodating the illiterate, the non-English speakers, and the hard-of-sight, road signs began to be produced with no words – just symbols.
However, symbols can be more ambiguous than words. Here are some of the most interesting road signs, according to me:
This is supposed to mean that the pavement ends and the road turns to dirt. That is not the first thing I think when I see this sign.
This is supposed to mean that the right lane ends and only the left lane continues, so the driver is supposed to merge into the left lane. But does this sign really show that? No! At the bottom of the sign are two lanes, and at the top of the sign are two lanes. Nowhere does the one lane merge into the other lane. I find this sign to be especially misleading.
or
True story: when these signs first started appearing, I actually stopped at them because I was so well trained to stop at a red octagon. When I realized that it was a “stop ahead” sign, not a stop sign itself, I became annoyed at them. I still don’t like them. And almost as bad as these signs are the “AHEAD STOP” warnings painted on the road itself.
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs.
Psalm 74:4
Oct
9
2012
With the demise of the penny in Canada, the penny is surely doomed here in the US. It is just a matter of time before it is discontinued.
But once the penny is gone, there are a lot of phrases that won’t make sense. So here, without further ado, is my list of updated phrases to be used when the penny is no longer legal tender.
Would Nickelback then be promoted to Dimeback?
What would happen to penne pasta?
Any other phrases?
A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent.
Mark 12:42
Sep
6
2012
Just in time for election season, here is a fruit and vegetable stand after the political groups’ PR firms adjusted the signs.
I suppose that we can call inanimate objects as we see them, because there is or was no agenda – just identification. How much of a person’s physical appearance are we allowed to use to identify him? Hair color is probably still okay, but skin color makes at least some people pause.
I think oranges are one of the safe items in that I can’t think of a politically-charged term to which a committee could change it.
I thought about including blackberries, but I’ll leave that as an exercise for you, the reader.
Related Note : Most of the black students at my college were from Jamaica. They were neither African nor American. Just by looking at someone as we passed in the hallway, I could not tell his national origin nor his citizenship. That’s why I prefer to call things, and people, as I see them.
And no people are the color of those potatoes, by the way, unless they are sunburned.
A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words, And the deeds of a man’s hands will return to him.
Proverbs 12:14
Aug
13
2012
In our recent travels, we passed by some state parks. Just outside one of the state parks, some enterprising homeowner was selling wood. The sign on his front yard looked like this:
CAMP
FIRE
WOOD
I think they took the easy way out.
If you were to write the word(s) to indicate wood for a fire for a camp, how would you arrange those words?
Campfire wood ? Sounds like the name of a forest…
Camp firewood ? Sounds like a happy place for children…
Such a dilemma – how to make a compound word out of three words. Which word draws the short straw?
Here’s my answer:
Wood for a fire is firewood.
Fire for a camp is a campfire.
Wood for a fire for a camp is campfirewood.
Why limit a compound word to only two words?
They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them,” declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 39:10
Aug
2
2012
Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.
Psalm 50:22
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