Sentences with phrase «someone poking»

One of a number of reasons I stayed out of my business offices and worked at home as much as possible was because when I went to the office, I was «drawn» to listen in on, interfere with or critique every phone call, look at every fax, poke my nose all the way into everything — to the extent that I ruined everybody else's productivity as well as my own.

Also consider a humorous critique, ads that lightheartedly poke fun at the competition.

After all, Facebook already lets you «poke» people, whatever that means, and lets you broadcast your relationship status.

But at a time when the U.S. and Europe is fighting costly political battles in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, poking a country like Greece — which sits at the crossroads of these regions — could be far more expensive in the long run.

An analysis released Monday pokes holes in that argument.

Once you've been poking around the remote job sites, you'll start to see some familiar company names and familiar thought leaders.

Canadian policymakers can poke and tweak financial levers all they want, but slow economic growth is here to stay according to the C.D. Howe Institute.

Following the hoof steps of Purple Cow, Poke the Box packs a great message into a fairly short book.

If you've done some poking around online, you probably will have noticed a few franchise opportunities promising investments as low as $ 10,000.

Poke the Box is really my favorite kind of book.

Sorrell also used his position on the panel to have a poke at Facebook's efforts in this area.

In August 2016, Zuckerberg announced the rollout of Instagram Stories on the app, a feature strikingly similar to that of Snapchat's, which the media and even designers at Snapchat noticed and poked fun at.

Netflix description: «Michelle Wolf pokes fun at everything and everyone on her weekly show.

He said his phone was «blowing up» with messages but he didn't want to be rude and answer the messages while sitting in the audience, so he ignored them until a woman from Disney poked him on the shoulder.

So while Silicon Valley's hype bubble is overdue for a good poking, a few flameouts won't spoil the whole party.

One night after reuniting Jon Stewart with his former Colbert Report alter - ego, Colbert opened Tuesday's show by poking fun at Melania Trump for cribbing pieces of her convention speech from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech.

The offense runs through him, and though the Cavs, like all teams, have plays that they run, a lot of the time, it's James dictating the action and poking holes in the defense.

He poked fun at what we called his «hilariously useless» guide to playing the xylophone as an example of what not to do, and said content farms should focus on quality, not quantity of content, and that Google will eventually reward those that do with better search rankings, and therefore that it will be better for business over the long run.

The survey revealed that 73 percent of respondents are concerned that drones could damage property by crashing into a house, and 55 percent are worried that drones could cause injury to people, like poking out an eye.

The tips of the vacuum tubes in the ENIAC accumulators, which were arranged in 10 - by - 10 grids, poked through holes in the machine's front panel.

Facebook has tried multiple times to copy or duplicate Snapchat's success, including launching standalone apps such as Poke and Slingshot.

In September 2017, Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at Trump giving his wife a firm handshake at a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Air Force.

The communal table is made from weathered ship timbers, and even has a notch where the mast used to poke through.

«Do not suppress them and become like a balloon that's poking itself in and will eventually burst,» says Weiss, the author of the new book «How We Work.»

Poke, Facebook's failed first attempt at developing a Snapchat competitor, was essentially a direct rip - off of the service.

Teresa Scassa, the Canada research chair in information law and policy at the University of Ottawa, poked around the links and said she thought «wow, the ordinary consumer lost interest minutes ago.»

You save precious fuel and energy, because poking just causes even more harm... to you.

In researching this letter, I poked through news articles from the time and found a treasure trove of horribly embarrassing - in - hindsight quotes.

Facebook's failed copycat Poke actually helped people take Snapchat more seriously, former TechCrunch writer Billy Gallagher argues.

When Erik passes by those Apple disciples lined up outside, including one fanboy who has a haircut modeled after the infamous «notch» of the iPhone X, Samsung pokes fun at what many have referred to as the cult of Apple — those consumers who must have the absolute newest Apple products, right away, no matter the cost.

By having the dominant, respected social network take impermanent photo sharing seriously, Poke helped change the narrative, and Snapchat benefited enormously.

Poke around the web and see what you can find.

«That is the term that lawyers use to describe a situation in which an owner has poked so many holes in his or her legal safeguards — by failing to follow the rules that govern corporations — that a judge decides it's fair to poke some even bigger holes.»

Zuckerberg met with Spiegel and expressed interest in buying Snapchat; but when Spiegel declined, Zuckerberg launched a clone of Snapchat, called Poke.

Oscars host Chris Rock poked fun at the divide between prestige movies and mainstream tastes during the show.

POKE HOLES IN IT The Brooklyn model from Geox is custom - designed for heat relief.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

«It's something that, in a way, you can kind of poke fun at yourself by dressing up as the colonel,» McEntire said.

But looking through resume books, consulting alumni networks and generally poking around to know which students make the most attractive targets for recruitment is only the very beginning of APT's efforts:

Andy Goeler, CEO of craft at AB InBev, contends that big beer brands like Budweiser are often mocked by the craft industry, so he sees no harm in «Big Brother» poking back.

It's OK when you poke a little gentle fun at yourself, but the last thing you want to hear are bald or money or «Do you want fries with that?»

Longtime Tonight Show host Johnny Carson — along with his chief heirs in late night, Jay Leno and David Letterman — poked plenty of fun at political figures, but mainly for their personal foibles, both real and comically exaggerated: Gerald Ford's clumsiness, Ronald Reagan's age, Bill Clinton's appetites.

And while the rather thin outsole doesn't offer much protection if you step on a sharp rock or a protruding branch, the shoes will keep your feet safe from pokes and scratches as you jog through brambles, and they breathe well enough to keep your foot cool even in hot, humid weather.

The video, which will be seen on TV, online, pre-roll and OOH, pokes fun at several dieting trends, from green smoothies to»80s aerobics.

If you have the middle, you space ends at the edge of the armrest, no poking your seat mates in the sides with your elbows.

«When they poked through these totally buckled iron rods into the aggregate behind them, it was just bits of brick and sand.»

Never assume people who make fun of themselves give you permission to poke the same fun at them.

Attempting to remove or poke a bug with a cotton swab can push the insect farther into the ear or cause damage to the middle ear and eardrum, according to Stanford Children's Health.

Word on the street is that RioCan is poking around the city's east end, as well as Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton.

The film even pokes fun a bit at an iconic moment from the first film.