{"id":3354,"date":"2012-07-15T17:33:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:18","slug":"thoughts-at-large-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/07\/thoughts-at-large-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts at Large: 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 The last thing most people need is someone telling them what they need.<\/p>\n

\u2022 True or False:\u00a0 The higher you place an item on a shelf, the more likely it is to fall.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I am not a celebrity.\u00a0 Objects do not become more valuable because I have owned them.\u00a0 The only things of mine that will have value to my children when I’m gone are the things that evoke good memories for them.\u00a0 Example: I have saved the golf ball from my only hole-in-one.\u00a0 It is in a box in the storage room.\u00a0 When my children discover it, it will look like any other golf ball to them.\u00a0 As it should.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two wrongs don’t make a right.\u00a0 Three lefts do.<\/p>\n

\u2022 For some reason, it is considered a good sign when people are lined up waiting for a table\u00a0 in a restaurant but not a good sign when those people are seated and waiting for service.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Graduate this: Dustin Hoffman will be 75 in August; Simon and Garfunkel are already 70.<\/p>\n

\u2022 True or False: If you see a “Honk If You Love Jesus<\/a>” sign and you do not honk, it means you do not love Jesus.<\/p>\n

\"iPhone<\/a>\u2022 This is the icon that allows you to make a phone call on the Apple iPhone.\u00a0 Most iPhone users have probably never seen a telephone shaped like this except in the movies.\u00a0 (Movies like “The Graduate.”)\u00a0 It is somewhat ironic how 21st-century technology sees fit to recycle symbols from the 20th.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 I have once again picked up “The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume One” after a long hiatus.\u00a0 This volume is over two intimidating inches thick and starts off slow and dry, thanks to a 58-page “Introduction” by the editor.\u00a0 Reaching the end of that section, I was ready to put the book down and did.\u00a0 Luckily, Twain’s own words have proven to be far more engaging.\u00a0 He writes with a refreshing, direct, declarative style that reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut without the weight and weariness.\u00a0 I look forward to finishing the book sometime before Game One of the World Series in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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