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CSotD: Shallow ideas
I had some deep ideas at this time however realized I’ve shared sufficient deep ideas currently and I’m not within the temper.
So right here is our deepest considered the day, from Red and Rover (AMS), and it matches my temper that it comes from a canine.
Nothing towards canines, thoughts you. I respect their capacity to stay within the second, although they’ve various skills to stay within the rain.
My final a number of canines, Rhodesian ridgebacks, had no undercoat and refused to exit within the rain, however they compensated for it by having iron bladders and the flexibility to attend 24 hours if crucial.
I now have a tiny canine with a tiny bladder, however she doesn’t appear to thoughts rain, although she doesn’t keep on the market any longer than it takes.
My deep considered the day is that we must always all be like canines, largely with the flexibility to just accept the day and alter accordingly.
If that’s not shallow sufficient for you, how about this rant?
Right this moment’s Edison Lee (KFS) triggers a reminiscence of when pc video games first appeared, by which I imply computerized variations of board video games, not the Orb of Zot.
Monopoly got here out — on a small floppy, which you needed to insert every time you performed — and it merely had the board, the cube and the tokens, plus property playing cards. You clicked on the cube to roll, it moved your token, you acquire one thing or paid lease or no matter.
In the event you performed multi-player, no one needed to be the banker and it was unattainable to cheat, and, should you couldn’t spherical up a crew, you may play alone towards digital opponents.
After which they improved it with animations, in order that, for example, when the man on the horse moved, the horse reared and neighed and galloped and it took about 30 seconds for him to get to his subsequent sq..
It was like taking part in Monopoly with a bunch of actually annoying dorks.
Made me wish to return to Zot and assault a vendor.
The revenge being that the individuals who thought all these “enhancements” had been enhancements at the moment are hip-deep in NFTs or, as seen in Brewster Rockit (Tribune), digital homes.
Somebody on Twitter requested if anyone thought Bitcoin was going to break down and destroy the economic system. They instantly obtained loads of solutions explaining why it’s all very secure and is unquestionably the forex of the long run.
Like going to a Jehovah’s Witness conference and asking if Jesus is basically coming again.
One other inconsequentially shallow commentary issues the pattern famous on this Rhymes With Orange (KFS), which relies on the assumption that the best present you can provide your little one is a reputation they must laboriously spelled aloud every day for the remainder of their lives.
That’s clearly not an issue in that portion of the African-American group the place the purpose is to provide you with a completely distinctive title. D’Brickashaw Ferguson must spell his first title each time, if he hadn’t been a serious star for 10 years within the NFL.
Now he solely has to spell it for non-sports followers.
However this 2007 Baby Blues (KFS) demonstrates the opposite aspect of that coin.
In 1990, I did a narrative on baby-naming, and whereas some ethnicities have fascinating methods of selecting names, the preferred names — primarily based on native beginning data — appeared to come back from cleaning soap operas, which I suppose is what occurs when it’s important to go away work in your fourth month quite than sticking it out till the contractions are 20 minutes aside.
Kayla Brady (“Days of Our Lives”) actually isn’t the one cleaning soap opera character whose title exhibits up on the Prime Ten lists for the North Nation. Though solely two boys names — Kyle (“Generations”) and Justin (“Days of Our Lives”) — have cleaning soap opera counterparts, the ladies’ record reads like a roster of daytime characters: Brittany, Ashley and Nichole are all on “Days of Our Lives,” and Nichole can be the title of a personality on “One other World.” Sarah is a personality on “One Life to Stay.” Amanda is on “One other World.” Chelsea seems on “The Guiding Gentle” and Emily has two characters together with her title: One on “All My Kids” and one other on “Because the World Turns.” Even Heather is a cleaning soap opera character, a child on “Loving.”
Earlier generations had named their youngsters for Linda Darnell, Debbie Reynolds or Gary Cooper, so it’s actually nothing new, however Particular Spelling was: The preferred title in our area was Brittany, Britney, Brittney, Brittnie, whereas Quantity 5 was Ashley, Ashleigh, Ashlie, Ashlee and Quantity 8 was Chelsea, Chelsey, Chelcie, Chelsy, Chelsie.
Even “Ryan’s Hope,” which by no means obtained superb scores, apparently impressed a small flood of Siobhans, a beautiful title should you actually are Irish, however which is already unattainable to spell and, should you see it spelled, most individuals would do not know the best way to pronounce it.
(Aspect notice: Within the Gaeltacht, “Caitlin” is pronounced “Hosh-leen,” not “Kate-lin.”)
As soon as I used to be within the editor’s chair, I had a livid mom name as a result of, in a narrative about Explorer Scout awards, we had misspelled the mile-long, faux-Gaelic variant of Catherine with which she had saddled her daughter. Turned out we’d spelled it simply because the Explorers had despatched it.
The poor child was hardly the one sufferer of born-again Irish decided to make their youngsters’s names genuine and their lives depressing.
And who used to come back as much as the bandstand when my Irish pub band was taking part in, to tell us that we weren’t doing the track the best way Turlough O’Carolan — excuse me, “Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin” — had written it in 1708.
Riverdance killed pub music.
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