Comments for eleven bee

Comment on Getting My Blog (Back) On. by N

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:23:03 +0000

Happy to have you back!

Comment on Piles. by carol

carol — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:07:43 +0000

Amen, sister! BTW, about the neighbors… Remember that you were only seeing in as far as you could from the front door. Their kitchens were probably almost as bad as yours. Plus, they likely have one totally junked room where they piled everything they moved from in front of the door.

Comment on On Pity by elevenbee

elevenbee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:39:10 +0000

really interesting observation about the distancing effect of sympathy, susan. and liza, i’m 90% sure she was serious. normally i’m pretty good at being able to gauge a whether a person is just being jokey – she wasn’t so much.

Comment on On Pity by Liza

Liza — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:22:26 +0000

Do you think the woman was kidding? Because I’ve said something similar and have been completely and utterly kidding. Because you know me, I have no pity.

Comment on On Pity by susan

susan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:37:04 +0000

Sympathy is overrated anyway. Empathy is great, where one person really connects with the actual feelings of another. But sympathy, I think, emphasizes the distance, or difference, between the people, and the superiority of the sympathetic one.

Comment on They DO Light Up My Life by matt

matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:05:11 +0000

Totally cute Evie!

And you know what? I used to TOTALLY LOVE that song when I was 6 – 7 yrs old!!! Had my own “You Light Up My Life” 45″ that I would play OVER and OVER again!

Rock on Debbie Boone!

Comment on They DO Light Up My Life by Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:17:34 +0000

Aw, that’s beautiful. Now, can you coach Andrea in singing?

Comment on Leveraging Metrics for Sustainable Messaging by susan

susan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:19:15 +0000

Thank you eleven bee AND carol for making a stand where it really counts. This (“gifting”, “messaging”, “imaging”) drives me freakin’ nuts. These abominations are like land mines that blow up a legitimate attempt to communicate. (How’s that for “imaging”?)

Comment on Perhaps Socrates Was On To Something by niclac

niclac — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:39:45 +0000

This is rubbish! how could I have known Java the moment I was born, it didn’t exist. This guy lived in a time where the world didn’t change much!

Comment on Leveraging Metrics for Sustainable Messaging by carol

carol — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:53:15 +0000

Most annoying phrase going? “Gifting.” Huh? Whatever happened to the word “give?” As in, “My mom gave me a great Christmas gift?” Now, every ad would have you think you’re supposed to say, “My mom gifted me with a great Christmas gift.” Makes people sound like idiots!

I understand talking about “gifted students,” or being “gifted” in an esoteric area (sports, music, art). But to use it for physical things that we hand one another – PLEASE!!!!

Let’s re-introduce the words “give,” “giving,” and “gave” to common English usage.