Teach me to care and not to care.
“The student who says lunch was the best part of the day isn’t necessarily griping. How many happy fathers would say the best part of their week was the time they spent in the office? None, and this doesn’t mean they’re ungrateful for their jobs, or that they find their work unsatisfying. Likewise, going to class is work and students shouldn’t be held to standards that even sane, pious Christian adults would disdain.”
-from my latest for CiRCE
Arrogance: the defining personality trait of all those who are more successful than you.
Envy: the defining personality trait of all those who are less successful than you.
Kroger: Would you like to scan and bag your own groceries?
Customer: Bag my own groceries? Are you going to pay me to do your work?
Kroger: No. As a matter of fact, we’re going to start charging you for the bags that you’re filling yourself.
Customer: Is the bag fee going toward higher quality bags?
Kroger: No. The new bags break ten times quicker than the old ones.
Customer: Win win win. Sounds good to me.
It’s far easier to deal with people who always think they’re right than with people who always think their intentions are pure.
People who always think they’re right have a high incentive to actually be right, because they know everyone can tell when they’ve been proven wrong. On the other hand, you cannot prove to someone that their intentions were impure.
Just arrived in the mail today.
“I had a lot of LEGO as a child, as did my friends, and we all knew there were two kinds of blocks: “regulars” and “specials.”
Regulars were the kind of blocks you used to build a wall, a floor, a hull, a wing, a fuselage, or a roof. Most were solid, symmetrical, and they tended to look like cinderblocks, bricks, beams, studs, cast metal, or sheetrock. In any unsorted box of LEGO, most are regulars. That is because you need a lot of them to build a plane, a castle, or a ship.
Specials were few in number, though, and tended to be small. They weren’t practical, but they were highly desirable. I remember hundreds of different kinds of specials: small transparent cones and rods (which tended to represent light or laser beams), dials, levers, switches, flags, feathers, rockets, treasure chests, shields, swords, and so forth. While you couldn’t build a fort with specials, you couldn’t build a cool fort without them.”
-from my latest for CiRCE
The latest episode of Proverbial is devoted to the saying, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” which I think one of the most misunderstood aphorisms that pretty much everybody’s heard. Download the latest show here.
We need to get that “The rent is too damn high” fellow back and send him after Starbucks.
After a two month hiatus, Proverbial is back. Episode 123: Letting The Water Hold Me Down is available now.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.