Gordaen's Blog

I saw this on the CNN homepage early last week and took a screenshot. Life has been too busy for me to keep up with everything, but I finally got around to posting it. The article on the right says “Would separating gay students from straight ones help reduce harassment and violence?” On the left [...]

I bought a cheap briefcase to use during my teaching internship and in it came directions for setting the locks. I couldn’t believe how many errors were in these directions. Here’s a sample: Now turn the dials to your own secret number and mark the number down in some place where you can refer to [...]

What is going on at the left side of this advertisement? When I first saw it, I thought the lady was being run over and had hit the glass with her fists, cracking it. Then I looked closer and saw that her arms were thrown up in dismay; apparently that’s her windshield and it’s been [...]

Every time I think I should get rid of my Ridiculing Stupidity category (it’s not nice to make fun of people/things), I see something else that demands attention. The most recent thing to catch my eye is this sort of “slogan” that Aquafresh is using:

“Good afternoon, I have a good software” was the subject of a spam email I received recently. It’s one of the few that have made it through gmail’s filter. Fortunately, I was able to get some laughs out of it. Here are my favorite lines: