I complain about grammar issues all the time. How can fluent and natural speaker of English speak so poorly?
Example A: I am on an Amtrak train right now and occasionally we come to a stop at which some of the train’s doors will not open. Without fail, the conductor says “all doors will not [...]
I’ve heard some odd suggestions for tactics in class during my time at school. For instance I’ve heard that you should always ask a question on the first day or first few days of class, presumably to get the professor to notice you. One kid in my Data Mining class just interrupted the professor during [...]
It’s laundry night for me tonight and I noticed as I often do that one settings on the dryer reads “Optimum Dry”. Wedged right between “Less Dry” and “More dry”, optimum dry jumps out at me every time. It’s not symmetrically between its neighbors as the other labels are. It isn’t defined [...]
I just arrived in Seattle, WA, having flown from Washington D.C. My flight lasted about 5 hours, give or take, and I spent the entire time thinking about obesity.
The woman next to me weighed no fewer than 300 pounds and my guess puts her at closer to 330. When I arrived at my [...]
I had a nice hour long journey through the Apple store in Bethesda today. My iPod’s hard drive stopped working, and although I don’t expect the “geniuses” there to know my particular ability to diagnose such a problem, I also don’t expect them to take 25 minutes to diagnose it themselves. (By the [...]
…are absolutely sweet. I like to conceptualize things, which I subsequently can rarely explain. Usually I figure out how they could be expressed in a Venn diagram, and then everyone understands. How about ‘things I like and things Jake likes’? A normal one. Now I want to express that he [...]
Yeah no kidding. But I didn’t realize how true that was until tonight. I was at blockbuster and these three girls were talking. It was clear that one girl was the odd one out. I knew it right away. She would say things that seemed to fit in the conversation fine. “I like ice age” [...]
I think we can all agree that, on average, section carries exactly zero worth. I will, as usual, explain with an example. I’m currently enrolled in a class called “A History of the Palestine-Israel Question”. I’m sure you are thinking “wow, nice choice. There could not be a better time in history to have a [...]
I recently got a Blackberry Pearl. I’m sure many of posts will refer to it, since it is the best thing to happen to me, ever. Well not really but you know what I mean. After getting it, I changed my main calendar to Outlook. I previously used Google calendar. There was a tough period [...]
Pencils vs. Pens, and the Mail room
At my job, I am about to start working on something that requires me to draw a little bit on a legal pad. I went to the mail room to pick up a pen, but out of the corner of my eye, saw a box of pencils just begging for attention. So, I picked up [...]