Archive for November 28th, 2006

Why a duck is better than a shower radio for Christmas

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

My daughter should have been eating her supper, but she had gotten up to wander around the dining room. She saw an open flier from Linens & Things and started flipping through it. She saw a shower radio and really wanted it.

“Why”, I asked.

“Because its water-proof”, she said.

“Well so is a duck. And a duck is better than a shower radio”, I said back. “If you drop a shower radio, it breaks. If you drop a duck, it gets angry and starts quacking at you, but at least its still OK.”

I continued, “And if you throw your shower radio, it hits something and breaks. If you throw a duck, it just flies off. And if you drop your shower radio over the side of your boat it sinks. If you drop a duck it floats”.

She wasn’t convinced yet. I tried to explain to her that a shower radio doesn’t really play the guitar, it just plays songs where someone is playing the guitar. If you set your duck down on the strings of your guitar it sounds a lot like the guitarist from Iron Butterfly. Maybe she had me on that one.

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Cell phones and the decline of face-to-face

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

After my 3rd grade daughter’s evening teacher’s conference I took the family out to dinner since it was a bit too late to whip something up and we were in a happy mood after what the teachers had to say. At a booth near us, four teenage girls were sitting to have dinner with each other. So, you know that there was a lot of talking.

Each one of them was talking on a cell phone. Four girls. Four cellphones. No one talking with anyone at the table. I suppose if one had wanted to talk with one of the others they could just call.

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