Tag Archives: Thoughts

One Line Story

They say you only read the first few lines of a post. So let me tell you a story in one line.
 
“He hit send. His head then hit a tree….”
 
This Christmas, if you’re driving, pay attention to the road, and don’t Drink & Drive.

Father’s Days

One of the cartoonists in The Telegraph put together a story of his becoming a father and it’s both enlightening and heartwrenching at the same time. And, being a cartoonist, he illustrated the story himself – to great effect.

Source: Father’s Days

 

This is what reading is like if you have dyslexia – CNN.com

Ever wondered what it’s like having dyslexia? This site will help you see. And this gif shows you at a glance what it’s like.

The person’s blog has been setup for letters to “jump around” like what sufferer’s see. If you find it hard to read, imagine what the sufferer’s have to cope with on a daily basis. Sure, you can probably adapt to it after a period – like reading mirror letters or reading another language. Heck, you could probably read Al Bhed fluently, given enough time. But unlike dyslexia, all the other languages are static – they don’t change constantly.

I used to wonder why dyslexic people had an extra 30 minutes in exams when I was at school. Seeing this helps me understand why. Just being told “the letters jump around” didn’t really help me grasp the size of the task sufferer’s had to put up with.

I had dyslexic school mates and they were often shunned because they were considered “slow” readers. Unfortunately, this mindset carried on throughout our school life, and although they were slower at reading they were amazing at absorbing the information they read, doing really well at their exams (with the extra 30 minutes of course). That itself silenced their bullies.

Source: This is what reading is like if you have dyslexia – CNN.com

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Spooky

When you take the same train each day, you recognise the same people. What’s spooky is when you know what seat they’re going to take before they even get on.

One such person happens to get on at the same station as me, and get off to change lines at the same stop, and use the same lines, and get off at the same station as me.

This morning I found him in the same coffee shop as me.

Next thing I’ll probably find he works in the same building as me :/

Irony? Or suspicious?

As you might know already, Swiftkey is going to be bought by Microsoft. And suspiciously, this morning I found an update to Swiftkey. But it keeps failing to install. The other 6 updates installed fine. Just Swiftkey refuses to update. Suspicious? Or just coincidence?

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Commuter Frustration #3 – Spitting

This seems to be a norm these days, but it is still unhygenic and disgusting. I’d love to push the spitter’s face into their own spit and order them to lick up every drop of it…. But I’d probably be violating their “human rights”….

Commuter Frustration #2 – Bikes

People who bring full sized bikes onto trains. Tolerable on rail services, as some train stations are quite far out of towns, but on underground trains where every inch of space is a premium, and valuable, a bike is worth at least three spaces…. Posted from WordPress for Android