Understanding China

Thou Shalt Not Understand China.

Unless maybe you wanna think in Chinese ... then you have a chance.
With my Keen Sense of the Obvious, I can tell that they don't think in English. No matter how good their English is, and while sometimes it's pretty good on paper, a lot of them think they are speaking Actual English while the Average Joe, plumber or otherwise, cannot understand more than one word out of maybe like ten. I shudder to think what I might do to their language, if I had time to study it. I almost signed up for a class a couple of weeks ago, but about a half an hour before it started I had to go to a fire. An act of God? I dunno.

Henry and Robert

... Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe ... they have something in common — they were both corporals in the army when their innate leadership abilities were recognized, and they were plucked out of the hoi polloi and groomed for bigger and badder things.

I consider both to be criminals.

But Henry is more of a high-class criminal. He was in a classroom when he was discovered. Robert, however, was engaged in looting.

OCD and CDO

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ... and the latter is the same thing but with the letters in alphabetical order, the way they're supposed to be.

I realize that some people think CDO stands for Collateralized Debt Obligation but I don't agree with that.

This is kind of a nice template that I selected but I had to tweak the text parameters because it started out with that modren eyestrain light gray text which I totally Hate.

I can't for the life of me figure out why this fad has come about -- gray text on a slightly different gray background. It sucks big time. Just say no!!!

That story about GPS —
thanks for reminding me.

Some friends were living in the middle of Santa Fe about a block from the Capitol, on a dinky, dead-end, block-long dirt road, and had some relatives coming to visit. The relatives said "don't give us directions, we'll use the GPS!" Ha! They ended up on a long lonely road out in the boonies at a locked gate bearing the inscription "YOUR GPS IS WRONG".

So there, Mister Garmin, Mister Armchair Navigator.

New Beginning —
Awesome idea. I wish I'd thought of that.

Madoff -- Hands off!!
By which I mean the middle-eastern classic punishment, cutting off the hands of a thief, seems appropriate to me. Now what shall we do with the dorks at the SEC who turned a blind eye for something like nine years?