You have a way with words, Scheherazade.

You have a way with words, Scheherazade.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

What she's doin now...



thinking I might have trouble narrowing down my skills and abilities, having already checked the architecture box, which is 4th on the list, out of 2,072.  BUT in my defense: I always bogarted the blocks station in preschool, I have a discerning eye - to a fault - I hate camping (this includes anything not in city limits, of a major city (Austin you do not count)), AND, well, Howard Roark.

Not to mention, if the strength finder book was right my number one strength pretty much guarantees my besting even a fictional genius.  (how low will you go to sell a "book" Mr. Tom Rath, foraging the dictionary for platitudes, pilfering old newspapers from bums for their horoscopes, and no doubt you labored over the copy machine at some community college with a 101 social psych textbook to fill in the rest. You make me sick.  And by the way, my strengths don't top-out at five.)

And bringing it back...

So, if this little program proves anything like that bs strength finder book,  I'll spare myself the 20 minutes and 1850 more finger taps (see, I'm modest)...I think 20 pages of Tom Rath kissing my Competitive, Individualized, Knowledge-oriented, Commanding, Strategic ass will hold me over for a bit.

Friday, July 27, 2012

The comma, colon, em dash sentence is yesterday's triple threat

14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed



                                                                    A little teaser for ya:



                                          

Also called the Percontation Point and the Irony Mark, this one's used to indicate that there's another layer of meaning in a sentence. Usually a sarcastic or ironic one. So it is essentially a tool for smart people to use to make stupid people feel even stupider. Which makes it the best punctuation mark of all.