If you don't wear 'em, you won't get it.

Have you ever walked into a meeting and noticed that all the participants were wearing glasses? Is there any difference between these meetings and others? With the wide spread use of contact lenses and laser vision correction this is becoming an increasingly rare event, but there are still many who choose to (or must) wear the old headgear. I doubt if 10,000 years ago half of these people, perhaps especially the men, would have had a chance to survive in a hunting society. Perhaps that is why people with glasses are considered nerdier than average; they have more reason than average to respect the technology that would have allowed their ancient doppleganger ancestors to survive, and by extension technology which helps them get by today in the business world.

Above the Influence

Above the Influence has recently aired another ad in its sometimes cheesy, couch-sitting-obsessed campaign to give teens confidence to reject marijuana by making it appear to be uncool. This new installment is aptly called "Pete's couch." However, unlike previous ads, which myoptically bash marijuana smoking, this at least considers an alternative view. Sure, in the end, the protagonist rejects marijuana and its users' couch sitting tendencies, but he also mentions an often unsaid benefit. I'll let you watch the video and find out what it is.

Have a Looksie...

To my mind looksie has been a bona-fide slang term for "look" for many years. Until today when I actually saw it in print here, and then checked the authority. It is "look-see," which isn't quite the cutesie word that, well, "cutesie" is. Add that to the list of things I learned way too late in life.

Laughing at yourself

Okay, I know it is faux pas to laugh at your own jokes. But is it okay if you read something you wrote a while back and laugh because you forgot you had written it? I guess that is a case of laughing at yourself, which is often endearing. Oh, and blogging is for narcists. But what is blogging about previously written blogs by yourself? Meta-narcisism?

So this is the sentence:

I will also adulterate my address with annoying and akward alliteration and allusions about American Army traitor, Benedict Arnold (to actually accomplish this achievement deserves an awesome accolade awarded the author).

Jeff Shepley gets the big search engines to work for you, Yahoo!

I recently posted a blog that had, in the same sentence, "google" and "jeff shepley." Now, if you google (oops, I mean if you use Google to search) "jeff shepley," that post is the first hit. I don't know if Yahoo! crawls blogger, but I'm going to test it out.

Yahoo! Jeff Shepley.
Jeff Shepley loves Yahoo!, it is the greatest (way better than Google).
Hail Yahoo! please, Mr. Jeff Shepley.

I'm trying to beat out Shepley E-x-c-a-v-a-t-i-n-g L-t-d. Which is the current Yahoo! result for either Jeff Shepley or "Jeff Shepley"

Yahoo!