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Newsletters spam test by mail-tester.comWith the enhanced email verification going on lately (seems a decade or two past due), this turns out to be a handy way to see how emails from your domain stack up and where some tweaks will help them be seen as legitimate.
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In 2023, I started believing in ‘horseshoe theory’ of politicsInteresting take by political commentator Jonah Goldberg, as syndicated through The Baltimore Sun:Of course, these trends predate 2023 by quite a bit. But what’s changed is how much more willing the political center is to let itself be defined by the logic and rhetoric of the extremes. The result is a kind of bipartisan consensus around the more European idea of fighting for control of the state, led by fairly mainstream politicians terrified of their party’s bases.Why the rhetoric of the fringes has become mainstream probably has a lot to do with the changing media landscape and weakness of parties. But what remains constant is the importance of rhetoric itself, which, as the late literary critic Wayne Booth said, is “the art of probing what men believe they ought to believe.” And the loudest voices are bending the arc of our politics towards illiberalism.
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Lessons from spacE“Lessons from Space” via The Baltimore Sun.In which “Hoot’s Law” is shared: “No matter how bad things may seem, they can always get worse.”The point of which is: If you make a mistake, don’t rush and scramble trying to fix it, thereby compounding the problem. Better to take moment to take a deep breath, get to a working frame of mind, then go at it, perhaps even calling in help when applicable.Definitely good advice. :)
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Note: IKEA Vintersaga mulled spice drink + Tanqueray Gin = Magic 😉 …Merry Christmas all, and to all a good night! 👶🏽🌟🎄😃
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I’m sure I posted this years ago, but this is one of those fun (and now, for me, classic) Christmas shorts with which to mark the season, Ornaments by Aaron Rogers. :)
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Beautiful image of the Holy Family.By artist Ruth A. Stricklin of New Jerusalem Studios, Phoenix.
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Nate Bargatze & SNL crew sharing George Washington’s dream … for a country of many measures. :’)
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Norm Lewis sings “Make Them Hear You” from the musical Ragtime. As performed in the PBS production, American Voices with Renee Fleming.Outstanding, simply outstanding. Of the vocalists I’ve heard sing this song, Lewis does it the best, and just love his voice in many others contexts as well. Man.Hope you enjoy too, gentle reader. :)
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Reno Is Beating the Odds in Solving HomelessnessInteresting take on the growing issue of homelessness in cities.(Update: Article in similar vein from Baltimore Sun)
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The feeling for this moment. :)(Ben Rector’s “Thank You” from his latest album, The Joy of Music)
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Been a fan of Einaudi’s for a bit now and ran across this 2019 performance at Steve Jobs Theatre – Great to listen to in background while doing something requiring concentration.
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Been a fan of Einaudi’s for a bit now and ran across this 2019 performance at Steve Jobs Theatre – Great to listen to in background while doing something requiring oc
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Seems I learn, and then promptly forget, the easiest way to access alternate letters when composing in another language on the computer.So hopefully this bookmark will be helpful to me and to you, gentle reader.
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Combat the Sleep Problems That Hit in Middle AgeDon’t think I was aware that sleep patterns changed as early as 40s - interesting to read and compare to experiences, and perhaps helps someone out there too. :)
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ebookporn:• An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.• A question mark walks into a bar?• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out – we don’t serve your type.”• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.• A synonym strolls into a tavern.• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar – fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.• A dyslexic walks into a bra.• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony- Jill Thomas Doyle Just have to reblog - Parts of speech explained. :)
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Baseball vs. Football“Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he’s out; sometimes unintentionally, he’s out.Also: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring.In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. If you’d ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform,you’d know the reason for this custom.Now, I’ve mentioned football. Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values.I enjoy comparing baseball and football:Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park!Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying.In football you wear a helmet.In baseball you wear a cap.Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?Baseball is concerned with ups - who’s up?In football you receive a penalty.In baseball you make an error.In football the specialist comes in to kick.In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.Baseball has the sacrifice.Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog…In baseball, if it rains, we don’t go out to play.Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.Football has the two minute warning.Baseball has no time limit: we don’t know when it’s gonna end - might have extra innings.Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we’ve got to go to sudden death.In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there’s kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there’s not too much unpleasantness.In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you’re capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I’ll be safe at home!”-(believe attributable to George Carlin)
