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Type in Your Own Handwriting
While reading Zeldman this morning, I came across this interesting site. Have you ever gotten one of those annoying marketing pieces in the mail where the president of some company has sent you a “personal” letter telling you why you need his product? It looks as if the writer has handwritten the letter to you personally (but obviously hasn’t). Well, now boys and girls, you can do the exact same thing to all of your friends!
Nice Work Red Sox!
They didn’t make it to the World Series, but the Red Sox did a great job holding their own in a seven games against the Yankees in the ALCS. Way to go!
A little girl went to her second grade class one day and the teacher said “I’m a Yankees fan. Who else is a Yankees fan?
English Lesson
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Pirtty amzanig huh?10
Word of the Day: Defenestrate
Defenestrate /(“)dE-‘fe-n&-“strAt/ v. To throw a person or thing out of a window.
Right about now I’d like to defenestrate my computer.
Let There Be Light
The northeastern United States is coming out of what is being called the worst blackout in history tonight. Although it is still unclear what happened, our country’s electric grid system showed its age yesterday as millions lost power from Boston to Detroit.
Most of Rochester was in the dark as a result of the blackout from about the start of the evening rush hour until sometime in the middle of the night, depending on where you were. I first noticed a problem at about 4:30 in the afternoon when the radio station that was playing in my office suddenly went off the air.