When do people become so recognizable that you believe you know them? Take sitcom actors, for example, whom you invite into your living every week. Then when/if you see them in public and you have to do a double take – “Do I know you?” This happened with me and “Deacon” from King of Queens. Read more about Do We Know Each Other?[…]
Q: How do you majorly piss off someone behaving badly? A: Hold up your smartphone camera to them. Why does this infuriate them? It’s simple. They’re embarrassed. You don’t even need to be videoing them – just the notion that their bad behavior might be on the front page of a newspaper is embarrassment Read more about Smartphone Cameras: The Great Equalizer[…]
“Alexa, stop!” “Alexa, play music.” “Alexa, do this.” “Alexa, do that.” I fear Alexa might be condoning bossiness and teaching my children it’s OK to bark orders. Where’s the magic word? Since late Aug 2017, when Amazon recognized that Alexa can be used by kids, would love to see the option to require the word Read more about “Alexa, stop letting my kids boss you around.”[…]
Nobody understands the difference between 1st and 2nd cousins – or once or twice removed. I think it’s simple, actually, if you think about it as a ladder (above). Point 1) It all starts with a pair of siblings (at top) Point 2) It ladders down by generations. Going across a rung in the ladder equates Read more about Cousins[…]
Several tricks to understand the difference: Port & Starboard on a Ship Port has four letters like “left” Bread & Drink at a Table Setting Straighten your two index fingers and touch your two middle fingers to your thumbs. Your left hand creates a lower case “d” (i.e., drink) Your right hand creates a lower Read more about Left and Right[…]
Every year Daylight Savings screws up millions of kids’ and families’ sleep schedules, all in the name of extending natural light for an outdated agrarian culture. Aside from that, it screws up many peoples’ understandings of the difference between “standard time” (e.g., PST) and “daylight time” (e.g., PDT). Spring Ahead Generally over the summer This Read more about Daylight Savings[…]
The red car and the yellow have arrived at their stop signs at the same time. CA DMV says, “Yield to the car on the right. The car on your left yields to you.” Easy trick: “The car on the right has the right of way.”
Eye Doctor: “OK, cover your right eye, and read me the smallest line you can see.” Me: “Made in China”