If you’re new to texting and the wonderful world of online communication you may have come across cryptic clumpings of letters (no, not a foreign language, exactly). Things like LOL or IMHO. It’s the new shorthand for this brave new century and absolutely essential when trying to text from a microscopic cellphone keypad. Laugh Out Loud and In My Humble Opinion are just a few of the best known. As NY Times columnist David Pogue blogged a few months back those abbreviations are already ancient. “The world”, he writes, “desperately needs a new set of acronyms more relevant to todays online chatting participants”. So he has set about forming a new (and entertaining) list. Some of my favorites IIOYT = Is It On You Tube or TWD = Typing While Driving (What the?). Read the whole blog list here.

Tickets still up for grabs this week to the SF Choral Society concert of music of Vaughan Williams, Lauridsen and more on November 17th. Norbert and a guest are going because he knew the Jack Nicholson flick “Chinatown” was going to be called “Water and Power”. Congrats to our three winners this week on the Commuter Quiz at 6:30am.

Our “Way Back Machine” was set just a few notches into the past on this mornings Blind Date. We took you to the year Steve Fossett broke a world record flying non-stop around the globe on one tank of gas in the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer…2005.

Have a safe All Hallows Eve.

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