Free-For-All Friday – The Search for Internet Assistance
” .. a fickle internet-using public dropped them as fast as .. well .. MySpace!”
” .. a fickle internet-using public dropped them as fast as .. well .. MySpace!”
Back in 1955, when television was just hitting its straps, Science Fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote a short story called “Dreaming is a private thing.” The essence of the story was that people didn’t want a shared entertainment experience. He argued that people don’t want to have to get their entertainment according to someone else’s…
Background: I’m currently a member of four Toastmasters clubs, having rejoined Toastmasters in Brisbane, Australia, about two years ago. I was also a member of multiple other clubs in my previous Toastmasters membership, in the 1980s. But all those clubs, and three of my existing clubs, are ‘traditional’ clubs – in the sense that they…
OK, folks – quick quiz time: complete this saying: “Pride goeth before….” If you said “a fall”, you’d be wrong. And yet almost everyone would say that. The actual quote is “Pride goes before DESTRUCTION, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18) – but we almost always shorten the verse. It’s a…