Wired Cola

This 1955 promotional film has a lot to answer for:

They look so happy! See also part two.

Today, with cyclocross season over, my club had our Toy Ride, so Jak and I rode out to the ride in Kits, starting at dawn.

Inspired by a co-worker who used to work in a call centre, and swears they really would use some of these when they got really bored.

A as in Aye
B as in Bee
C as in Cue
D as in Django
E as in Eye
F as in Fnese
G as in Gnat
H as in Hour
I as in Ita
J as in Jefe
K as in Knee
L as in Lee
M as in Mnemonic
N as in Nee
O as in Oll
P as in Phonetic
Q as in Qat
R as in Rhotic
S as in See
T as in Tse-tse
U as in Use
V as in Vie
W as in Why
X as in Xerxes
Y as in Yew
Z as in Zeus

Further Reading.

I can't remember where I found these two links. But this article says that lucky people are optimists, but also that their attitude has real effects on their outcomes. In other words, lucky people make their own luck, and you can make your own luck too.

And here's Louis CK pointing out that there's a lot of luck to go around:

At my place of work, we buy a fair number of Toshiba laptops. As mainstream Windows laptops go, they're fine. They don't catch fire very often, they have all the mod cons, they don't offend. We bought a fairly nice one for a user who had specific needs, a Toshiba Satellite X200. It's fairly big and has a nice WSXGA display.

Okay, some context: the white dog with the gruff voice is the father of the family. it's an ad for a mobile phone plan. It all makes more sense that way, doesn't it?