I get upset when OTHER drivers talk on their cell phones.

At MinistryCOM, I was different from most of the other speakers and workshop leaders in one key way:

I tucked in my shirt.

There is a certain cool factor in not tucking in your shirt. I don’t have it, and don’t know how to get it. I sit here typing with my shirt properly tucked in. Hopeless.

On the other hand, consider Tip Number 5 from Guy Kawasaki’s “11 Public-Speaking Pointers“:

Overdress. My father was a politician in Hawaii. When I started speaking, he gave me this advice: Never dress beneath the level of the audience. That is, if they’re wearing suits, you should wear a suit. To underdress is to communicate, “I’m smarter/richer/more powerful than you. I can’t take you seriously, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” This is hardly the way to get an audience to like you.

On the other hand (says Tevye the Milkman), Tip Number 4 is “Understand the Audience.” And the audience at MinistryCOM consists largely of laid-back, unpretentious, tech-savvy, often irreverent laypersons. The untucked shirt befits them.

My Canadian friend, Brian, sent me this. That sounds like I only have one Canadian friend. I probably have at least a handful of Canadian friends.

Here are some word-related useless facts. Being a wordsmith, I found them interesting, though I don’t require that you find them similarly interesting.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• “Lollipop” is the longest word typed with only the right hand.
• “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• Only two English words contain all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”