Archive for April, 2008
Reality, Imagination and Stephen Hawking
Posted by Tony Hatter in Angry Rants, Uncategorized on April 22nd, 2008
Well, I’m disappointed at the lack of anything about Theoretical Physics or wheelchairs, but this did prove to be a mildly amusing, very angry rant about people misusing words. I think I must have been in a bad mood…
During the current remodel of a school building, there is a temporary wall which seperates the area in which non-construction workers should be from the area which is being remodeled. The number of linguistically impaired people calling it a “fake” wall finally got to me today. The next person who I hear saying “fake wall” will be the recipient of a very sincere invitation to try walking through it. The same goes for the people who circulate the “fake” photos of sharks swimming just beneath the surface of the water next to an unsuspecting surfer or a low-flying helicopter. The photos aren’t at all what bother me; each of those photos almost made me laugh the first ten thousand times I saw them. What bothers me is that each of these photos comes attached to an email with a string of about thirty previous recipients and senders each of which has found it necessary to not only send the picture on another lap around cyberspace, but to also add their own rendition of the sentence “This is probably fake, but funny nonetheless.” The pictures are not fake!!! They are all very much real, it is just the situation they are depicting that is fake. When you watch a movie, the characters are being played by real people, which are recorded on real film and are real interpretations of fake people.
I know someone who very frequently reminds me that there is such a thing as male PMS. Usually I laugh and let it go without asking him how many times a day he pulls that line out. Maybe he has a point.
The internet ate my blog…
Posted by Tony Hatter in Uncategorized on April 22nd, 2008
Okay, so it turns out to have been my own fault. In a well-intentioned attempt to create a backup of my old posts, I managed to change something that shouldn’t have been changed, or moved something that should have stayed put , or stuck my finger someplace it had no business being. Whatever I did, I figured out how to undo it (how many months later?) and my digital essence has made its triumphant return to the Wicked World of Wonderment (an infinitely better lengthening of the abbreviation if you ask me) none the different than when it left, but none the worse for wear (although my keyboard now tends to not like the letter ‘r’ for some reason, so ignore any mysterious omissions of that little bugger). What baffles me is how easy wordpress is to use, and how completely inept I am at using it…
Up next: Wordpress tells me I have a draft saved of a post titled “Reality Imagination and Stephen Hawking” It sounds like fun, I might try making sense of it and post it for all five of the people likely to look.
Bonus Content: Phrase heard on the radio today, “fother mucker”