There was an odd, to me, advertisement plastered on one whole side of a MARTA bus that seemed to be borderline tasteless.  It was an ad for bail bondsmen and there were 3 black employees shown on the ad – 2 male and 1 female.  What made the ad seem to straddle the line of good taste and crass commercialism was their tagline – “Free At Last”.  Obviously I don’t speak for the black community, but were I black, I would think that paraphrasing Martin Luther King’s famous speech and applying it to getting out of jail isn’t what the civil rights leaders of the 1960s had in mind.  To me, it would be as tacky as a black barbecue joint having a billboard that would say something like “I Have a Dream….to eat at Smokey’s Rib Shack!!!!”

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Do we really mean it when we say the phrase “Tell (whomever) I said hi”?  How often do you actually relay the message to your significant other / family member / friend when someone else gives you that command?  Is it, instead of a Rhetorical Question, a Rhetorical Request?  A simple salutation that you actually remember said person’s family members’ names?  Or are you interested in letting that third party that you indeed said hello?  And has anyone ever replied to you “No, I won’t tell so-and-so you said hi.  They’re mad at you right now and want nothing to do with you.”?

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With all the technology that has shrunken in physical size for just about any apparatus, it is just now reaching the AC Adapter world.  While electronic items like cell phones, TVs, speakers and any other “guy toy” has gotten smaller and better, the AC adapter has remained the clunky, unwieldy size of a brick.  Not being an Electrical Engineering major, I have no idea why technology took so long to catch up for this apparatus in terms of size.  We’ve gone from cell phones the size of a Harry Potter paperback to the size of 10 business cards stacked on top of each other but we can’t get our phone charger to be smaller than the phone itself?