Category Archives: Stupidity

Mar 20 4 comments
Stupidity, Winston Churchill

The Perfect Perfectionist Series #1

You know what would be perfect? If I did a series on Perfectionism.

Perfectionism #1

First, a disclaimer.  I am not a perfectionist nor do I play one on TV.  

A regular reader and commenter on my blog, Agnes, said I should do a series on perfectionism. it was perfect timing for her to say so because I had just finished giving a presentation at the 2nd annual Social Media Tulsa Conference on ‘The Six Stop Signs on Creativity Road’ and one of the stop signs is about perfectionism.  As I gave the presentation I wished I had more time to spend on that topic. Now I do.

Let’s start Perfectionism week out with 2 questions to set the stage and get our definitions out there.

What is your definition of perfect?

What, within humankind’s thought and creation, can be, or is, perfect?  

I will give my answers in the comments after a while.

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Drawing by Marty Coleman, who thinks Oreos are perfect.

Quote by Winston Churchill, who liked a good cigar.

Oct 03 0 comments
Stupidity

Stupidity Week in Review

I am doing some revamping and updating of my blog over the next few weeks so I am using the opportunity to revisit some series I have done in recent years.  I sometimes wish people could see the series all at one time (and it’s one of the goals of the revamping) so for this week I am doing a ‘Week in Review’ each day of selected series.

Click on the image to go to the original post and it’s commentary. 

Infinity – Stupidity #1

 

Ignorance – Stupidity #2

 

Conclusions – Stupidity #3

 

Organizations – Stupidity #4

 

Manners – Stupidity #5
Drawings by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Feb 17 0 comments
Albert Einstein, genius, judgment, Stupidity

Genius and Judgment – A Fish Tale

I am not a fan of the Tiger Mom (from the recent book ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’) and her ways.  I know American moms and dads are wondering if they are too lenient, and maybe they are at times. But coercing your child into becoming an exact duplicate of you, with no understanding or care about why they are and what ‘genius’ they have is akin to kidnapping.

You kidnap your kid to fulfill your purposes, your needs.  After a while, the kid goes along with it and becomes the hostage influenced by his or her captors to have sympathy and regard for the kidnapper. The Stockholm syndrome for families.  The child believes the parent (kidnapper) did the right thing because now he or she is good at violin or very interested in science.

I am not dissing helping to direct your child, you can’t help but do that, and you are abrogating your duty if you do not do it to some degree.  BUT, if you aren’t paying attention or you don’t care who the child is and is becoming, or you are so insecure you need a little mini-me around to validate yourself, then YOU are the problem, not the child.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, Austrian born Physicist

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A thankful shout out to my Napkin Kin in Perth and Adelaide, Australia; Charlie, Margg, Amber, Ebony and others.  They are faithful readers and I REALLY appreciate them!
Jan 07 0 comments
Stupidity, Voltaire

Stupidity #5: Manners

 

You can get all 5 stupidity napkins on  Coffee Cups and you should!
When you think about it, well-mannered stupid people do tend to make it to the top and rule the world. But I plan a coup soon of well-mannered smart people and will need your help! Are you with me?
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
 
Quote by Voltaire. If you don’t know who he is, you aren’t paying attention!

Jan 06 0 comments
Jon Bentley, Stupidity

>Stupidity #4

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Buy this as a Coffee Cup for your friend trapped in a stupid company!
If it’s not via an obvious organization, look to see if the individual doing that incredibly stupid act hasn’t been pulled this way and that by a committee of well-meaning fools.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Jon Bentley, 1953 – not dead yet, Computer science researcher

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