Tag: details

  • Watch Your Language

    Watch Your Language

    There’s something amusing about kids pointing out a technicality like this while using this insult against a sibling with whom they share the same mother, and in front of said mother. Because there are some arguably larger linguistic/usage concerns I could bring up here.

  • Don’t Look Now

    Don’t Look Now

    There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.

  • How Sure Are You?

    How Sure Are You?

    It’s even better when the conflict is impossible: “So you detected the issue 3 hours before it started?”

  • Ronald McDahlnald

    Ronald McDahlnald

    One of my kids was also having trouble with this author’s name for her own book report (in a different class). We helped her remember it as “Rolled Doll” and when she practiced her presentation and had trouble I would mime like I was tossing something low to the ground (the imaginary doll) to help…

  • Two Kinds of Developers

    Two Kinds of Developers

    Feeling a little too seen in that presentation.

  • What’s Mine Is Yours

    What’s Mine Is Yours

    Ah, the satisfaction of being able to completely reverse someone’s argument and make it your own! UNO Reverse!