Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label names. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Waiting, and how I always had to do it.

Have a little patience...

Now, whatever your opinion about Take That, I must admit I like the sentiment.
Patience is something I value very highly in people.
If I was rich businessman and owned a company where talented young people came to me looking for a job, I would be enigmatic and eccentric, and if people were impatient they wouldn't get the job.

There are a few things I place in the category with patience that I value.

Being on time is one. I hate it when people are late.
I really try hard to be there with plenty of time, and if I am going to be late I tell people.

Selflessness. That's a good one.

But back to patience.

As another example of pure conjecture, I think that people with last names starting with a letter late in the alphabet are more naturally patient.

My last name is Wells. Many other people have last names with late letters:
In this respect, I am not alone.

That means everytime a register was called at school, or indeed anything where you have to wait in alphabetical order, the late-letter people are alay waiting until the end.
And it happens every time, so they become naturally more patient.

Yep.

Thursday, 7 October 2010

David Wells, for we are many.

David Wells isn't me. He's a "digital marketing strategist, blogger, podcaster and psuedodesigner". He's also got a lot more followers than me on Twitter.

Motivated, I'm sure, by the fact that we share the same first and last name, he kindly "tweeted" my blog. And whilst my meagre 16 followers does not compare to his muscular 2,000 odd, I feel I should return the favour. Here is a link to his website where he is a highly skilled digital marketing strategist.

There are a few David Wells' hanging around who've done much more impressive things than me. Wikipedia confirms that this David Wells is the most famous. He was a highly succesful pitcher who played for a variety of teams. In 1998 David Wells become only the 15th pitcher in MLB history to throw a perfect game.
He is impressive, and he flies the flag for good David Wells' all over the world.

Just like this one. He was an economist, but I don't know much about him. He was a close friend of 20th United States President James Garfield, though, who opposed slavery. Good man.

But this David Wells. He's let us down. He bismirches the good name of David Wells. He is a peddler of astrology bullshit. I have no respect for him.