Bart "J.B." Hopkins's Blog, page 6
August 2, 2022
Grades
Education is important. Grades aren’t as important as effort. My grades were decent, but not great. What they couldn’t possibly indicate is how I stick with it.
Cauliflower
When did riced cauliflower become a thing? It tastes all right, but the origins are sketchy … it wasn’t there one day and then it was there. The new, healthier you awaits! … just one bowl at a time. You can get there, my friend. We all can.
July 31, 2022
Free
Respecting other people is really at the core of being free. And human. It’s that respect that makes it all possible. The symbiotic glue. Compromise is a natural extension of respect. Bringing harm to someone else is not respecting them.
July 30, 2022
Cursing
According to author and linguist John McWhorter, most language is generated using an area on left side of our brain, an area associated with logic and reasoning. An example: We clean the vegetables before we eat them. But when we use curse words, a portion of the right side of the brain associated with emotions …
July 27, 2022
Car Makers
Dear Car Makers, Enough years have gone by … surely you can figure out a way to include a cellphone holder in your vehicles. We, as a species, are sick and tired of the goofy and unreliable car mounts we buy on Amazon. Suction cups, clips, 3M-style adhesive…how many have we gone through until we …
July 24, 2022
On the Serial Comma
I completely agree. Credit to Benjamin Dreyer, author of Dreyer’s English: An Utterly and Correct Guide to Clarity and Style “Whatever you want to call it: Use it. I don’t want to belabor the point; neither am I willing to negotiate it. Only godless savages eschew the series comma. No sentence has ever been harmed …
July 22, 2022
Misery
Just reached the spot in the movie version of misery when Annie brings Paul a bottle of Dom Perignon, but she pronounces it Pair-ig-non.
July 20, 2022
Hanks
If I were to create a Top 10 for best actors, I’d probably have Tom Hanks as #1.
July 19, 2022
Chatter at the Mechanic’s
Today I had the pleasure of taking my car in for a service. And, yes, as with every single visit I’ve made, they find something extra to “recommend” I purchase. The part of me that continues to believe in humanity hopes this is just the process of commerce and there are honest business dealings and …
July 17, 2022
Paper Airplanes
Did kids make paper birds before there were airplanes?
