What do you know 004

For the second time while booting, I encountered Windows’ failure to load the desktop metaphor on my Dell. I typically try to avoid using the possessive forms, like your girlfriend.

A guide to supernatural collective nouns for the rest of us - Holy Kaw!
“Any amateur in the field of supernatural phenomena can tell you that demons travel in legions and their heavenly counterparts in hosts, but be prepared to meet your maker if you misaddress a rage of orcs or flurry of yeti. Save yourself with ‘The Stoakes-Whibley Natrual Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns,’ and may you not be tormented by a tizzy of fairies or a cavalry of valkyries!”

Christopher Hurt thanks the Results-Only Work Environment for sharing the following article:

More workers facing sick leave conundrum - Business - Careers - msnbc.com
“When it comes to taking time off for medical reasons, many workers face a conundrum, and it’s only gotten worse during this economic downturn.”

I should expect to not receive the same results from knocking on concrete as advertised for knocking on wood.

SPL Underground Librarian: Advertising and Propaganda
“Advertising and propaganda are twins. Both seek to influence the way a person thinks and feels. Both are geared more toward feeling than thinking because most people make decisions based upon emotions and attribute it to thinking. The goal of advertising is to influence people to buy a product whether they need it or not. The goal of propaganda is to change the way people think and feel about a specific philosophy or worldview. Both want people to think in a specific way, and feel specific emotions, and act upon those thoughts and emotions. All of these elements are defined by those creating the advertising or propaganda.”

I am too easily moved to like things on Facebook, a total of 1049 things, right now.

Survey: Atheists are most knowledgeable about religion - U.S. news - Life - msnbc.com
“A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions.”

Christopher Hurt could not find a way to segue that to dioramas.

Twitter / MC Thumbtack: "I’m not an admitted ...
“‘I’m not an admitted attorney but I passed the bar.’ And I drew a turtle off a matchbook. You don't see me passing myself off as an artist.”

Well, what do you know, like your girlfriend.