No, my dream was not as profound as that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was much more prosaic.
I dreamt that an online prayer site was concerned that another online prayer site had move visits than it did. I wondered what difference the number of prayers would make in obtaining the desired outcomes.
Then I thought about Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address. I didn’t watch it but I wondered if he would end it with “God Bless America”. But what difference would God’s Blessing make in correcting all the mistakes of government that have been and will be made by politicians, no matter the party?
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Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Word play
I am taking a University for Seniors at UMD called “Words Just Want to Have Fun”.
The instructor passed out cards with a word or a phrase. We were supposed to make a poem using that word. Mine was “buffalo” and I thought of a haiku and a pair of rhymes.
Buffalo, the town,
Gets lots and lots of deep snow.
It’s the lake effect.
Where the buffalo roam
Is the subject of a poem.
But there are no buffalo on the range
And the bison are penned to cook on your range.
We were also supposed to work in pairs on a cryptogram. It is from the Oct-Dec. SPELL/Binder. No pair finished it in class. I kept making copying errors, putting the letter of the clue in the grid rather than the letter in the clue. I also had to look three clues, one online (author of “The Razor’s Edge”, one in the dictionary that began with “syn”, and one in “Hamlet” about what the ghost had to say about Gertrude.
This last was misleading because the clue included “Hamlet’s ghost”, not the ghost in “Hamlet”.
The instructor passed out cards with a word or a phrase. We were supposed to make a poem using that word. Mine was “buffalo” and I thought of a haiku and a pair of rhymes.
Buffalo, the town,
Gets lots and lots of deep snow.
It’s the lake effect.
Where the buffalo roam
Is the subject of a poem.
But there are no buffalo on the range
And the bison are penned to cook on your range.
We were also supposed to work in pairs on a cryptogram. It is from the Oct-Dec. SPELL/Binder. No pair finished it in class. I kept making copying errors, putting the letter of the clue in the grid rather than the letter in the clue. I also had to look three clues, one online (author of “The Razor’s Edge”, one in the dictionary that began with “syn”, and one in “Hamlet” about what the ghost had to say about Gertrude.
This last was misleading because the clue included “Hamlet’s ghost”, not the ghost in “Hamlet”.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Unlimited with restrictions: corporate doublespeak
Ad on Facebook:
Want to be Unlimited
sprint.com
Switch to Sprint for unlimited data, text and more. Restrictions apply.
Duh! If there are restrictions then the service cannot be unlimited!
I have Virgin Mobile on my iPhone, which uses Sprint towers. True, I don't worry about how many phone calls I make, how many people send me unsolicited texts, and how often I am online. In fact, accessing the web with the iPhone through a tower beats using sporadic wi-fi hotspots.
On the other hand, Sprint has dead spots where one wouldn't expect them, like on I-35 at mile 175 between Duluth and the Twin Cities. That is a restriction and a limitation.
Want to be Unlimited
sprint.com
Switch to Sprint for unlimited data, text and more. Restrictions apply.
Duh! If there are restrictions then the service cannot be unlimited!
I have Virgin Mobile on my iPhone, which uses Sprint towers. True, I don't worry about how many phone calls I make, how many people send me unsolicited texts, and how often I am online. In fact, accessing the web with the iPhone through a tower beats using sporadic wi-fi hotspots.
On the other hand, Sprint has dead spots where one wouldn't expect them, like on I-35 at mile 175 between Duluth and the Twin Cities. That is a restriction and a limitation.
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