I just thought Mike was getting high in the corner, and Heather put her camera down to run over and demand that he not be such a Bogart.

[W]hat appears to at first glance to be a thinking problem can be a problem with sight or hearing. […] There's nothing wrong with your noodle; it's your sensory equipment that needs a bit of help. Learn to compensate.

Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account.

The best way to avoid the problem of photographing is to skim-coat the entire surface after the third coat of joint comound has dried.