The title of this post is taken from actual packaging for a steam iron.
Turns out that not only are there lots of silly warnings on tags, packages and signs around the world, but now there’s an actual organization whose mission it is to campaign against such “gobbledygook.”
They call themselves the Plain English Campaign [...]
Entries from January 2009
Do Not Iron Clothes on Body
January 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Fun Stuff · Humor · Learning · Uncategorized · Writing
Word Clouds Are Cool
January 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This is a word cloud I created of my last post, Tell the Truth, Expect Nothing. Scroll down for an explanation about how it works.
What is going on here? What are you looking at?
Basically you’re seeing a visual representation of my last post. The biggest words in the cloud are the words [...]
Tags: Creativity · Fun Stuff · Writing
Tell the Truth, Expect Nothing
January 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
I’m reading Randy Pausch’s, The Last Lecture and enjoying it. If you don’t know the story, Pausch–a computer science professor, husband, and father of three very young kids–had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was dying. His “Last Lecture” wasn’t about dying, however, but about how to live. Then he wrote [...]