Thalidomide is Apparently Good for at Least One Thing

The first time this particular freelancer showed up to work, I had fiduciary concerns. She only had three fingers on each hand. Would she only be three fifths as productive as a five-fingered freelancer? Should I negotiate a discount in her rate? This was in 1994. I had like $7 in my new business checking account and I frankly liked to eat every now and then.

But wait. The freelancer's middle finger was the longest middle finger I had ever seen in my life. Maybe it was multi-functional outside the obvious heavy traffic road rage scenario. I decided to hold off for the time being. Keep tabs on the situation.

Turns out yeah. For once I was right. She was no casualty of the computer revolution. She could swing control-shift-F12 with one hand. When her rate increased later on that year, I didn't say one word when I wrote out the check. I would have paid her more. Maybe I did.

Penultimate : Brain Power Vocab Check

I might not be able to spell Treo, but I do have a handle on some tragic English language fuck ups in the name of pretentiousness.

Here's the take away: Penultimate does NOT mean "the über-ultimate." If you say, "We cannot try to solve life's penultimate questions 24/7..." beware. You sound like an idiot.

pe·nul·ti·mate [pi-nuhl-tuh-mit]:
–adjective
1. next to the last: the penultimate scene of the play.
"the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column"

I Think I'm Turning Japanese. I Really Think So.

-------------------- On 7/7/07 11:53 AM, Stacey wrote:

This is an invitation to join my network on LinkedIn.

-------------------- Guy wrote:

Konichi-wa!
Sure, sounds like phun.

Sayanara-
Guy-san