Actually, it isn't Frisco.

It's "The City", or else say the whole thing. Calling it "San Fran" is pretty revealing, too. It's equivalent to saying, "I'm not from the area". Which is okay, not everyone should be from the area. I just thought someone might want to know...... I know I would.

Carson City residents live in the state of NevAda, not NevaHHda. Another dead give away. I'm sure you can think of some similar examples.

Not sure how we got on this topic, but it came up in conversation at a good friend's birthday party last night. ...... Oh, I know what started it: we, somehow, got to talking about the "actually" epidemic, and other filler words like "umms" and "ahhs", "like" and "y'know".

Their family had the "actually" epidemic so badly that they agreed to bust each other every time it was said...... But, then if it was said. It became "actually day", and then the whole family could say it as much as they wanted! Fun.

We really start to notice what we say when the kids started modeling after us.

Just remember: Friends don't let friends call it Frisco!

Must See.- Visualize.

One of the elements of Thinking Like a Genius (snagged this from Study Guides and Strategies) 2. When Einstein thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate his subject in as many different ways as possible, including using diagrams. He visualized solutions, and believed that words and numbers as such did not play a significant role in his thinking process. ...read the rest

The Technical Lie

For years our kids could not figure out why we would LIE to them when they would ask us what time it was.

They would ask the time, we would look at a digital clock that might read 8:13, and we would claim that it was 8:15..... If it was 8:11, we might claim it as 10 after 8. They never said a word about it, for many years.

They just quietly pondered this obvious deception and wondered what our motive might be.

Somewhere along the way we realized that we grew up telling time on analog (dial) clocks and our kids learned to simply read the digits on the display of a digital clock. No need for approximation, just read!

We all had a good howl over this when we figured out what was going on. Our poor confused kids must have thought we were trying to pull a fast one!

What made me think of this is that I was referring to a call going "right to the machine" instead of: "right to voicemail". Well, we haven't had a "machine" answering our calls for quite a while. We don't even "Dial" a number, but the lingo has lingered.

I don't make a Xerox of anything, but there might be some that still do.

Some may say they video "taped" something, but maybe it went to disk or hard drive with no tape involved!

I wonder how long we will Google, or Blog, or use our Blackberries.

I heard an older speaker (not that old, either) refer to the laptop and projector as the "typewriter"... (Yikes!).

I'm amazed how many people don't apply new technologies. I guess it takes us quite a while to dislodge the old methods, including some of the language.

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