This is not an exhaustive list, but just a few things I thought of while driving, for what I would do if I were governor of my state.
- Make all the crosswalk timings consistent. Some count to zero then the light changes to yellow. Some hit yellow at 2 or 3 and go to red on zero. Some hit zero and the light stays green for a few more seconds.
- Get rid of changing the clocks twice a year. This has gotten some more traction lately, but so far it’s all smoke and no fire.
- Set a maximum height above ground level for headlights. Too many jacked-up pickups with annoying/unsafe headlight placement.
- While I’m on that thought, maybe require a CDL for vehicles whose hood exceeds a certain height. If you can’t see people standing in front of your vehicle, you get extra training and scrutiny.
It is He who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
Isaiah 40:23
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You should all be familiar with the phrase “All roads lead to Rome”, and some people have already made signposts joking about that.
Like this:
But I haven’t yet seen anything about what the signposts in Rome would look like. Wouldn’t roads from Rome thus go everywhere, and possible look like this?
but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me
2 Timothy 1:17
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Here are some thoughts I jotted down that aren’t quite sufficient for their own individual blog posts. If you’re the type of person who likes Twitter, pretend each of these is a tweet.
- Work should be more like a video game: if you defeat your boss in battle, you get to advance to the next department.
- No one can say the word “wamt”. It is always pronounced “wampt”. Or “wamut” but that doesn’t work either. And no, it’s not a real word.
- If someone in a work call says “Sorry, I was multi-tasking” that really means they were doing something else during the call. If they really were able to multi-task, they would not have missed the question or topic of discussion.
- With apologies to Margaret Thatcher: if you have to tell someone you’re not afraid of them, then you actually are afraid of them.
- Do not liken your woman to 400-grit sandpaper. Even though it is designated as “extra fine”, she won’t appreciate the comparison.
you are not to be afraid of them; you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:18
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I was behind a Tesla the other day and noticed it resembled something familiar. So I decided to demonstrate that here.
First, start with the back view of a Tesla.
Second, make it the right color
Next, adjust the color of the glass
Then, expand the glass upwards.
Finally, give it a monocle and a mouth.
Tada!
Anyway, that’s what I usually see when I’m behind a Tesla – the roof rails remind me of overalls. It’s a Minion-mobile.
And as for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel.
Ezekiel 10:10
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Here are some thoughts I jotted down that aren’t quite sufficient for their own individual blog posts. If you’re the type of person who likes Twitter, pretend each of these is a tweet.
- The opposite of sweet is savory. So why isn’t someone who has a sweet disposition called “an unsavory character”?
- I thought I’d make my wife happy and take her shoe shopping. It turns out it only makes her happy if the shoes are for her, not for me.
- In golf, you want to shoot under par. So why is something bad called “sub par”? Shouldn’t it be “super-par”?
- Life is too short to keep using worn-out non-stick pans. We got a new set recently and why didn’t we do that earlier?
- A lesson I learned from raising kids: “many hands make light work” does not apply when trying to loosen knots in shoelaces. I need space (not extra help) if you want me to fix your shoes.
When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army, nor be assigned any duty; he shall be free at home for one year and shall make his wife whom he has taken happy.
Deuteronomy 24:5
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Here are some thoughts I jotted down that aren’t quite sufficient for their own individual blog posts. If you’re the type of person who likes Twitter, pretend each of these is a tweet.
- A bird in the hand is no longer worth two in the bush. I checked, and a bird in the hand is now worth 32 birds in the bush. The phrase is a few hundred years old, so it should be adjusted for today’s cost of living.
- It seems to me there is a penny-wise/pound-foolish mentality for people who refuse to eat any GMO food but then go ahead and inject a GMO Covid shot into their body. As far as I can tell, neither one will modify your own genetics.
- What is the correct past tense of the phase “you snooze, you lose” – you snoozed you losed, or you snost you lost?
- I would love to be the receptionist at the doctor’s or dentist’s office (or any other place that still asks Covid-screening questions), because I would throw on at the end “Did you pack your own bags and have they been with you the entire time?”. One, it would check if people are paying attention or if they’re just answering “no, no, no” to the Covid questions (like I usually do), and two, it would highlight the ineffectiveness of that class of questions. I might as well say to the person “If you say ‘no’ then you get to enter here, if you say ‘yes’ then you don’t. What would you like to say?”
- It seems to be a habit of some people to have a list of potential band names. I have no plans to start a band, but my favorite potential band name is “St. Vincent and the Grenadines”.
Save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand, And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:5
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People sometimes say, of a certain task, “It is not difficult; it just takes a lot of steps”. Or perhaps “It’s not hard, just tedious”.
I also am guilty of having uttered, if not that exact phrase, that sentiment.
But what makes something difficult? Is not requiring a lot of intermediate actions something that increases the difficulty of a task?
Certainly not everything that is difficult requires many steps.
Something may be physically demanding – it is hard to accomplish because of the physical conditioning and exertion required.
Something may be mentally demanding – it is difficult to accomplish because of unfamiliarity with a concept.
I think that most things that are difficult are difficult because they require a lot of steps.
This assumes that the intermediate steps are not all the same. If the intermediate steps are repetitive, then yes you could say it is tedious.
But even then, to many people a tedious task is difficult, maybe because their minds can’t occupy themselves without external stimulus. Or maybe they have carpal tunnel. Either way, tedium is a type of difficulty.
So if someone tells you “it’s not hard, it’s just _______”, you can reasonably assume that whatever the blank was, that is a form of difficulty.
Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me.
Psalm 131:1
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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.
