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Daily Vowel Movements on Facebook
As many of you will know, mainly because I have been raving on about it for the last month or so, Daily Vowel Movements is now on Facebook.
As of last night, it even has its own page name at:
http://www.facebook.com/DailyVowelMovements.
So feel free to check it out, if you haven't already, and you will notice if you check it regularly that I have been trying to post about half new content over at Facebook, and the other half links back to the blog. However I'm not sure whether this is the right balance, or the best way to go about doing things.
So a couple of questions for you, particularly if you have a blog, and/or a Facebook page and/or a Twitter account - Firstly, do you post new stuff at each location? And if so, what is the breakdown of where you post the new stuff?
Anyway, just to ensure this post doesn't get too serious, here is a Facebook related image:
My response to that, is that I can't wait to sit at the cool table!
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Sneaky side and back buttons on babies clothes
Has anyone else had the experience of gently struggling to get a t-shirt, jumpsuit or other baby/toddler clothes off and over a child's head only to discover after getting it off said child's head that there were actually buttons on the back or side that could have made the exercise a whole lot easier.
(such as this picture on the right hand side, but they are so sneaky you can hardly see them)
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The Bolt by Jean-Honore Fragonard
Today's captioned artwork is "The Bolt" by Fragonard.
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Do you feel like you are never going forward in life?
Monday 27 February 2012
Hint: which way does the car drive?
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Peter Doyle @ The Quay (Doyles fish restaurant)
Here is an example of a perfectly designed logo.
1. It is simple. Anybody could draw it and/or recognise it.
2. The type is perfectly suited to what it sells. A fish restaurant with 2 fish as the logo.
3. It is catchy (no pun intended). After seeing it, you realise that you could have come up with the idea, but didn't. Even if they had a hundred different designs, you would look at this one and say "Enough. This is the one"
Great work, Peter Doyle. Perhaps I will have to come and try your food someday.
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Haiku and refridgerator
Sunday 26 February 2012
"Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator"
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A couple more quotes on memory
"Memory is a crazed woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."
Austin O'Malley
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man
should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
George Savile (Lord Halifax)
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The 5 hour energy drink / shot
Obviously at the end of the 5 hours.
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The genius of memory
"The charm, one might say the genius, of memory
is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental;
it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs
the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust."
Elizabeth Bowen
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The best of times or the worst of times
Friday 24 February 2012
In case you can't read it:
"I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens.
Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times?
It could scarcely have been both."
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Why is there a bottle opener in my board shorts?
Over the summer I bought a new pair of board shorts. I got them home, was about to try them on when I felt a heavy tag like thing in the side velcro pocket.
Oh No, I thought, they have left the store clip on which will spill ink all over my brand new swimmers before I have even had a chance to wear them.
Oh No, I couldn't have been further from the truth. The pair of board shorts that I had bought did not have an extra tag or anything like that, but actually had a small plastic metal type bottle opener in the side velcro pocket. What? That's right a bottle opener in the pocket. What is the marketing, or assumptions going on here. If you wear board shorts you drink beer. Or even worse, if you wear board shorts, for some reason you need kitchen utensils in your pants.
What about the type casting going on here? If a pair of board shorts includes a bottle opener, does a wetsuit now come with a swiss army knife? or even worse do budgie smugglers now have attached a cork screw?
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Toilet training and improving boys aim
Thursday 23 February 2012
Quite a good way to train young boys, but did they really have to put in the three point challenge?
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The dangers of impersonating Chopper Read
If there is one person you don't want to get on the wrong side, it's Chopper Read.
However, there is in fact one person who is doing a pretty good job of getting on the wrong side of Chopper Read by playing a very dangerous game of impersonating Chopper on Twitter. He has 12,000 follows under the account name "The real Chopper Read", when evidently he is not. This is because the real Chopper Read is now after him and wants him to show his face in public, which is the one thing this guy almost certainly won't do.
Anyway, I haven't looked at any of the tweets, but let's see how long this twit keeps it up.
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Bathroom fail
Do you see the problem?
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How a pencil sharpener works
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Well, here's how they really work - I never knew.
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Nomophobia - The Wednesday Word
Today's word is nomophobia, a noun meaning the fear of losing or being without your mobile phone
I discovered the word from an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, and apparently the fear is on the rise - a whopping 66 per cent of people surveyed in the UK say they fear losing or being without their phone.
Now I will be the first to admit that I have a certain fondness for my phone, but I don't really fear being without it. Perhaps I would be pretty annoyed losing it, or be stuck not having it by my side 23 hours and 45 minutes a day, but not fear.
Here is my quote for it:
“Are we clear?
Yes Doctor.
Ok. Quickly. Let's try again.
It just wasn't working, and Sally was slowly coming to the sad realisation that her mobile phone battery was dead. The nomophobia was setting in.”
Click here for previous Wednesday word posts
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Strange looking potatoes
I would hate to see the Grade 2 potatoes.
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How big should a pill be?
Tuesday 21 February 2012
Here is an ad that was found in a medical journal. I am assuming that the numbers indicate the amount (mg) of the drug needed for each particular patient. So far so good.
However in case you missed it, here is the caption at the bottom of the ad.
Thank goodness for that. Imagine hearing the Doctor say, take two of these with food. Also, imagine getting a box of 24 from the pharmacy - you would need a forklift to get them home.
Thanks again to Erin for submitting a link and thanks to Dr Grumpy in the house for the original post.
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Funny newspaper correction and apology
Yes that probably deserves an apology.
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The Battle of San Romano by Uccello
Today's captioned artwork is by Uccello and is called "The Battle of San Romano".
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When you should get involved in a dispute
"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept,
because you will lose one friend;
on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request,
accept because you will gain one friend."
Saint Augustine
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Would you drink out of this cup?
It's early on a Monday morning, you need a coffee (or tea) - would you drink out of this cup?
For sale via This is why I'm broke
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Do you want to live on forever?
Here is Woody Allen's quote on the topic:
“I don’t want to live on in memories, I want to live on in my apartment.”
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Genetics
Saturday 18 February 2012
A real cross between his mother and father
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Left handed musicians?
I went to a concert the other night and while listening to the music I started to wonder whether there were any left handers in the orcherstra. Not sure why I thought about this, but I have seen a few people here and there playing a guitar left handed (such as Paul McCartney, although I think he can do both) but I have never seen a left handed violinist, and does it make it more or less difficult for a left handed pianist?
Does anyone know?
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Quotes on reading
"You can't judge a book by its lover."
Stevie Wonder
"The mere brute pleasure of reading--
the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
G. K. Chesterton
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Skeptical baby meme - baby with eyebrow raised
Another meme for you is the "skeptical baby" meme. It is actually a great little photo of a baby where it actually looks like he has deliberately raised one eyebrow.
A plain form of the meme is here:
However, it has been put all over the internet with a range of funny captions. Here are a few:
Hope you like it.
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