{"id":573888723,"date":"2015-10-30T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888723"},"modified":"2016-07-01T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T03:55:36","slug":"signs-but-without-the-ace-of-bass-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/signs-but-without-the-ace-of-bass-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs, but without the Ace of Bass jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started the week with a sign, if I recall. Let&#8217;s end it that way, too. I had to go down to the back of the post office area where things are offloaded from trucks. It is a very utilitarian area. It works, it is efficient. I&#8217;m sure it isn&#8217;t on the campus tours. Doesn&#8217;t have to be. The folks there do good work and they do it fast and they know their business. Always very helpful.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an elevator there. And above that elevator is this sign: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct44.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just good life advice. <\/p>\n<p>I mentioned last week how much I enjoy reading the bulletin boards on campus. Here&#8217;s another class advertisement that was worth noticing today:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct46.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can cats have ethics if there is no God?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I was not previously aware those concepts were not mutually exclusive. But, hey, maybe for cats. I&#8217;ll ask Allie sometime. She&#8217;s got some Siamese in her and is given to long pontification. But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Join the cats of philosophy answer this head-scratching question in &#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s class advertisement, you might recall, was for the same class. Those cats are going to cover a lot of ground between Justin Bieber and Johnny Cash and Ceiling Cat and the grammatical error. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another, from a different bulletin board not far from the first:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct47.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you want to be a scientist?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not if that&#8217;s what your lab is creating, no sir. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then join the biolgy department on Tuesday &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where the &#8220;Biolgy Department&#8221; falls on the organizational chart. Good curriculum, though. Among the more popular classes are Catnip Cultivation 410 and Whisker Weaving 203. (That&#8217;s an elective, I&#8217;m sure.) <\/p>\n<p>So use cats in your advertising, I suppose. <\/p>\n<p>This is what happened when I got home today. Walk in, put my stuff down and, immediately:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct45.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have it on good authority that she&#8217;s not interested in going anywhere. So I suppose this means I should stay here. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something else I put on the Internet today. You&#8217;ve already seen it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, if you&#8217;re following me there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kennydsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Come on over and follow me<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/9evR-LRFjW\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">My first Boomerang branding experiment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-10-30T23:32:25+00:00\">Oct 30, 2015 at 4:32pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another Boomerang. It has even less point, which means it has practically none, really. We&#8217;re trying to figure out the utility for this app in class. Reviews are mixed. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/9fCmiFxFlp\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Boomer-road.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-10-31T02:21:15+00:00\">Oct 30, 2015 at 7:21pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started the week with a sign, if I recall. 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