I like to play with idioms and sayings, and sometimes come up with new ones. The saying ‘my hovercraft is full of eels’ is very useful to know in avariety of languages, and here are some idioms based on this phrase that I was inspired to come up with this week, plus a few other...
But I digress…this post is about a very special 5 year old. I could, indeed do an entire post on Sayings by Odette, I have, in fact, suggested a book, the words/phrases are quite memorable, instead I thought I would tell her story through photos…you know the saying “a picture i...
Since I received this award once before, I am only going to highlight those who nominated me. Detrimentally Disgruntled draws delightfully for her droll stories, Chicken Nuggets and Elmo provides parenting pointers in prose, and Riatarded writes and rants well about reality and things she reads...
I cut the branch from white cardstock and colored the branch itself with green alcohol marker. I ran the die through the machine again with squares of pink, blue and yellow shimmer cardstock behind the butterflies, and then adhered them to the main die cut. I ran the die through the machi...
The LLM monitored the online chats for specific phrases, and when one of them occurred, it based its responses on the information in the in-context learning system. As an additional safeguard, it didn’t respond to queries directly. Instead human agents were free to apply their common sense ...
She cajoles and wakes him up but never demands that he obey her whispered suggestions. He tolerates her nosiness because she is simply very funny and full of wise sayings. Is the love that develops between them, between a human and an operating system, simply “a socially acceptable form ...
In one on one persuasion it is very important to do most of the listening and only short and sweet head nods and brief responses showing respect for the others opinions. Using phrases such as “I know where you are coming from” and “That makes a lot of sense” shows a respect for ...
Dear Word Detective: As an Australian, there are many phrases and sayings that I commonly use. However, after living in the US for the last few years, I'm realizing I don't understand the origin of half the things that come out of my mouth! One of those is "You've got Buckley's...