Random Analogies
It The Seattle Of Seattle Or Something......
a: Portland oregon ~
b: the Seattle of the pacific northwest
What: "Portland is like the Seattle of the pacific northwest."
Useful?
Writer: Not Stated
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: May 16 2012 7:03 PM
# 2246 Critique Analogy
Pittsburgh As Covered Furniture
a: Pittsburgh ~
b: good furniture covered in plastic
What: "Pittsburgh is like that expensive furniture at your grandmother's house that she keeps covered with that sticky plastic. It looks really nice these days, but you always end up leaving feeling uncomfortable and wonder who it's being saved for."
Useful?
Writer: Jim W
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jun 7 2012 5:47 PM
# 2309 Critique Analogy
At The End Of The World
a: Watching citizen kane ~
b: massage with a sander
What:
"I will demand that my film professors finally admit that watching Citizen Kane is like getting a full body massage with an orbital sander."
Useful?
Writer: Eyal Alony
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jan 16 2014 1:00 PM
# 4714 Critique Analogy
a: Enterprise software ~
b: Sophisticated Singing Group
What:
"Enterprise software is several orders of magnitude more complex than departmental software. It has to manage the needs of may diverse users and functions in a way that everyone gets what they need. It has to coordinate the interaction of lots of objectives and transactions and data sources and worry about things like timing and sequence and flow."
Useful?
Writer: Dennis Stevenson
LCC:
Where:
Date: Feb 23 2015 5:41 PM
# 7367 Critique Analogy

