September 2005 Archives

• Burns Toast Man
• Captain Zambia
• Bad Secret Keeper Woman
• Mr. Drink Spiller
• Dead Hornet
• Rusted Metal Man
• Daddy-long-legs Man
• The Flasher
• Not-so-Super Man
• Forgetful Girl
• Talking, Tights-wearing Rat
• Socially Tactless Boy
• The Incredible Hull
• The Burned out Lantern

I can understand why people repeat some things. As a teaching or memory tool, it serves wonderfully. It helps to review things that have been discussed, check for understanding, whatever. What I can't understand is when people feel obligated to repeat stuff that has already been mentioned by way of an abbreviation. When's the last time you went to an ATM machine? Yeah, my point exactly…

There are several opportunities that you have to visit someone and their family. Recently I submitted a soap box called Hospital Visitors. There are certain things that people do during their visit that makes me nervous and with a new baby in the house. There may be several times during the day that one or two people may be sleeping because of the new schedule called life.

Who are they trying to fool? What is it that they're trying to hide? Do they think we've never seen a balding man before? Is it that there is some sort of secret alien-communications tool stealthily covered by that hair? Yes, we can all tell that the hair is really growing on one side of your head, and you're trying to cover up the middle of that chrome dome.

Sometimes when people are giving presentations to a large group of people, they aren't able to stand right by their computer to advance it to the next slide, so they use some form of electronic signaling device to advance the slides. The receiving end is attached to the computer, and by pointing it in the general direction of the computer and clicking the button, it goes to the next slide. What baffles me is that some people seem to think that their presentation is a TV and by pointing this device at the screen and clicking the button, that it will advance.