new-fangled crapola

I didn't  like those punctuation emojis either, but they had a certain cleverness, that I admired, and since they were made of the same stuff as the type they had less of that sore thumb look about them, and they didn't have that Disney look about them either.  And that animation thing is way more annoying, so far they don't make noise but I guess it is just a matter of time.

Old Dog puts it just right when he calls them the lazy man's way of expressing himself.  It would well behoove the phlegmatic jerk to learn how to write so that he could be understood.  .

How about those embedded videos that just start running whether you click on them or not.  In order to stop them you have to wait until they are fully loaded and begin to play before you can hit the pause button, and then if it is some breaking news, you don't get right to the breaking news, you get the wacky local reporters talking about it.

How about  this?  There has been a controversy raging over single or double spacing at the end of a sentence.  And I mean raging, there has not been so much bile spewed since the Oxford comma controversy.  It's generally accepted that double spacing is a good idea with typewriters because of their font spacing, which required a longer break to make the end of the sentence stick out, but now that we all word process, so that the letters have a more even cadence, this is no longer required.  And of course there have been studies, and I think the last ones showed that reading is easier with the double space, but very slightly so.  Is it enough to justify those extra pages of the compleat works of Bill Shakespeare?  I say yes.

I couldn't have said before I measured them but I see that Beagles is a single spacer and Old Dog a double.  Double just seems more gentlemanly, an extra knock of the pipe against the tray as the professor makes his point and prepares to move onto another.

Cursive I think they can knock it into a cocked hat, seems like classroom time could be better spent on other things.  How much longer does it take to print? 

I don't know about  that clock thing.  It doesn't sound reasonable, it is just not that complicated.  The evidence seems to be from surveys in small towns that are not documented.  I looked up Snopes and they have nothing to say on the subject. 

It seems to be one of those things that we fogeys get into when the subject turns to, as it so often does, to kids these days, and you know we can go on and on about that while the big hand races the circuit while the little hand goes its slow steady way.

I'm not sure what Old Dog means by regulator clocks, but, as Beagles will remember, the clocks at Gage Park High moved one minute at a time, nothing, nothing, nothing, then click, then nothing, nothing, nothing again.  It's either 45 minutes after one PM or 46, it is never 45 1/2, or 45 1/4 or 45 1/4444444444444444.  No Zeno's paradox at Gage Park high Buddy.