So you’re in a bar, you’ve been flirting with this cute blond for approximately 46 seconds, and by flirting I mean you’ve summed up all your courage to say “hi”, and by summed your courage I mean consumed 8 Jager Bombs.  Suddenly you get the tap on your shoulder, you turn around and there he [...]

My favorite scene from the 1993 film True Romance is when Sicilian gangster Vincent Coccotti, played by none other than Christopher Walken, pays a little visit to Clifford Worley, played by the late great Dennis Hopper, looking for the whereabouts of Clarence Worley, played by Christian Slater.  The interrogation begins with Walken delivering one of [...]

The joke goes, “How do you keep an Italian from speaking? You tie up his hands.” While Italians are indeed very expressive with their hands when they speak, most human beings can’t go through a single conversation with peppering it with plenty of hand gestures. People talking on the phone, will use [...]

Pornography has always led the pack when it comes to riding the wave of communication technology innovation. In fact it can be said that porn is responsible for creating the wave in the first place. This is particularly true when it comes to the internet. If need is the mother of invention, [...]

Remember the classic scene, where the grandfather takes his grandchild on his lap and talks about the days when they didn’t have things like airbags and ATM machines?  Well I’m only 33 years old and I’m already starting to have these types of conversations with teenagers.  “When I was your age, no one had cell [...]

It’s always fun to learn a new language, but learning a new language as an adult can be as challenging as trying to acquire a US work visa as a foreigner. Many linguists suggest that if you’re trying to learn a new language, languages within your ethno-linguistic group will be easiest to acquire. There are [...]

The expression goes, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.”  And while this is very true, an even truer statement would be “It’s not what you say or how you say it, but what your body is doing.”  The words we speak convey only 7% of our intended message.  How we say [...]

While the Apple iPhone 3GS already has an impressive three-year lead and over 85 million units sold, Google’s Android cannonball launched out of the gates and after a mere 20 months, outsold the iPhone in the U.S. for the first time during the 1st quarter of 2010.  Should the fine folks over at Apple be [...]

These days, most business communication is done by email. As such, workers are spending a large chunk of their day reading and writing emails. Though it is a universal and popular medium to use, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always being used right, and careless mistakes can lead to very serious consequences. Just like companies [...]