Say What?

I and my public understand each other very well:  it does not hear what I say, and I don’t say what it wants to hear.
—     Karl Kraus
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On This Day In:
2014	Start Today
2013	Fly!!
2012	Greater Love
2011	Before

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Just Between Me

If you’re not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
—    Jules Feiffer
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On This Day In:
2013	Beyond The Strings
2012	Saving The Union
2011	Still And Too Often

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Watching Faux News

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.  It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
—    Edward R. Murrow
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On This Day In:
2012	Speaking Of Products
2011	Ready To Be Immortal?

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More Than Just Words

The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things.  Information is giving out;  communication is getting through.
—    Sydney J. Harris
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On This Day In:
2012	Egotist, n.
2011	Good And Bad

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Oh Yes He Can!

I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels.  They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person’s body language.
That is, on many levels astounding to me.  I mean, that’s like having a freaking superpower.  When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversation, we’re having a conversation.  Singular.  We’re paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it.  All these other conversations that have apparently been going on for the last several thousand years?  I didn’t even know that they EXISTED until I read that stupid article, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.
I felt somewhat skeptical about the article’s grounding.  There were probably a lot of women who didn’t communicate on multiple wavelengths at once.  There were probably men who could handle that many just fine.  I just wasn’t one of them.
So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless?  I know it’s tempting to think to yourself, “The man can’t possibly be that stupid!”
But yes.  Yes, he can.
—     Harry Dresden
The narrative character in the novel:  “Cold Days“
Written by:  Jim Butcher
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On This Day In:
2012	Enquiries
2011	The Prize: Understanding
2010	Can You Tell My Scanner Works?
	Rebecca – The Early Years
	James – The Early Years
	Brothers By Another Mother

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