A coworker passed me in the hall, saying “Hey, how ya’ doin’?”<\/p>\n
I experienced a sudden decrease in ethusiasm midway through the sentence for some reason1<\/sup>, because I responded, “I’m doing gr-ood.”<\/p>\n So, grood. Better than good, not quite great.<\/p>\n 1<\/sup> Actually, I know the reason. I am about to head the lab to debug a problem with a prototype, and while I started with my usual “great”, I realized partway through that that was not completely honest, and if things were truly great<\/i>, the prototype would be working already.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A coworker passed me in the hall, saying “Hey, how ya’ doin’?” I experienced a sudden decrease in ethusiasm midway through the sentence for some reason1, because I responded, “I’m doing gr-ood.” So, grood. Better than good, not quite great. … Continue reading