I debated with myself over the title of this blog entry. On the one hand, I don't want to make light of a very stressful time, and on the other hand, I absol...

Last week, I joined a Zoom webinar, sharing a laptop with my wife. We had logged in an hour after the session had started, and I wanted to eat a sandwich, s...

Last week, I joined an online community for a Zoom meeting/webinar, and I was sharing a laptop log-in with my wife. We used the "change name" feature to ind...

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate." Cool Hand Luke Everyone's an actor. Popular Youtubers teach how look better on video. This makes sense,...

"What we've got here is a failure to communicate." Cool Hand Luke Once upon a time, companies like Disney were outliers, calling their theme park staff "act...

"Live is Life." -- Opus (Austrian band), 1985 How I miss the "Live House." On stage or in the audience, nothing compares to packed rooms, Marshall amps, an...

"Live is Life." -- Opus (Austrian band), 1985 How I miss the "Live House" experience! Whether it's up on stage or in the audience, nothing compares to the ...

Bill is a financial analyst for an investment bank. He's busier than ever, working from home in Brooklyn, New York. When his firm published a list of "esse...

My friend Bill is a financial analyst for an investment bank. He says he's busier than ever thee days, working from home, "sheltered in place" in Brooklyn, ...

One favorite line in the "Wayne's World" Saturday Night Live sketches and their movies is, "Unnecessary Zoom!" Today, that phrase takes on a new meaning if ...

One favorite line in the original "Wayne's World" Saturday Night Live sketches and their movies is, "Unnecessary Zoom!" Today, that phrase takes on a new me...

"I want you to want me." Rick Nielson, performed by Cheap Trick According to medium.com, a 15th century Venitian monk named Angelo Barovier "took seaweed, m...

"I want you to want me." Rick Nielson, performed by Cheap Trick According to medium.com, a 15th century Venitian monk named Angelo Barovier "took seaweed, m...

"I knew she would meet her connection." –Jagger and Richards, "Can't Always Get What You Want" performed by the Rolling Stones If ever there was a song for o...

"I knew she would meet meet her connection." –Jagger and Richards, "Can't Always Get What You Want" performed by the Rolling Stones I woke up this morning th...

Vocabulary.com defines distraction as "something that takes your attention away from what you're supposed to be doing. ... Distraction comes from the Latin d...

Vocabulary.com defines distraction as "something that takes your attention away from what you're supposed to be doing. ... Distraction comes from the Latin d...

Remote: 1) far away, removed, as a remote island; 2) a TV control device that sometimes hides itself. With so many working from home, how can we avoid Tom P...

Once again, a beautiful double-meaning word, "remote" can mean, among other definitions, "far away, removed," as in the photo above of a remote island (for s...

I love words with two (or more!) meanings. They're the kind of words clever comics use to come up with jokes; they're the words subversives use to criticize ...