
It’s not my first stealthy acquisition of recovered knowledge. Medical school and residencies were also
fraught with similar schemes of one-upmanship. Only then, our peripheral brains were carried in over sized
pockets with indexes of medical tidbits, charts, equations and definitions. Assignment clipboards had the “Wash U” manual
attached as a cookbook for saving both your patient’s lives and your dumb ass. Thank you mini-Harrison’s textbook, too.
Its enough to have Attention Deficit Disorder. I listen to music on the radio sometimes and think “Am I
singing those lyrics right? Okay,
a quick look at www.azlyrics.com at a long stoplight and “Mad drool all the way” becomes the correct “Mad bull has lost his way,” from Gimme
Shelter. And apparently that is a reference to the cruel behavior of a Texas
Sheriff during the civil rights movement. Thank you Wikipedia and 3G.
I am not the only one.
How many times do you now have to beep your horn at someone who didn’t
notice that the lights had changed?
I read the news today, oh boy….Thank you, New York Times
on-line.
The sudden
storm we recently experienced in the Baltimore-Washington area with gale force
winds, a deluge of rain but without a hurricane warning became a “derecho,” a
word I had never heard of before and still mispronounce. Thank you, Merriam Webster on-line.
Derecho is pronounced: day- ray-cho. Thank you www.forvo.com/word/gazetteer/
Different accents are also available. The British always sound better and more intelligent than Americans, except for that "schedule" thing.
Derecho is pronounced: day- ray-cho. Thank you www.forvo.com/word/gazetteer/
Different accents are also available. The British always sound better and more intelligent than Americans, except for that "schedule" thing.
And for those who are just curious:
Quidditch is the game played in Harry Potter but also now in over 300 universities and high schools. Thanks, www.internationalquidditch.org.
Zoroastrianism was formerly a major religion in the world and now only practiced by approximately 190,000 followers. Thank you, www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/zoroastrian/ataglance/.
And there are over 350 languages and dialects spoken in Papua -New Guinea. Again, what would we all do without Wikipedia.
Googlito ergo sum.
Perverse Latin for “I google therefore I am.”
I am not the only one. Imagine that, John Lennon (and azlyrics.com).
And yes I googled “Google” to get the image above.
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