But this strategy does make thinking up presents more fun.
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Maybe it's past time we start thinking up some answers.
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Kudos to Apple for thinking up something bold and innovative.
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How fun was it thinking up ways for Nadia to die?
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And a new generation of people are thinking up new approaches to space.
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In the meantime, we'll start thinking up of our next great mashup costume.
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I don't sit around, reading lots of boring books, thinking up of projects.
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He lay motionless on the floor for hours, thinking up new problems to solve.
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The answer here is we have some historical precedents to back this thinking up.
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Thinking up answers to this apparent contradiction has become something of a scientific parlour game.
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Robson is the one to thank for thinking up the performance that shocked audiences everywhere.
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It's truly the gift that keeps on giving, with people thinking up ever-more bizarre combinations.
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In response, some carmakers have been thinking up some wild ideas about what those sounds should be.
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"I'd be happy in a little office somewhere, thinking up policies, making things happen, refining them," Mrs.
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Mendes also is inspired by vintage items worn by her mother when she's thinking up new designs.
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And while you are thinking up some very unusual ideas, you'll also be approaching the world very seriously.
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Today's centrists need to do likewise, and focus on thinking up new ideas rather than inventing new parties.
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I tried thinking up a donut pin a while ago but couldn't come up with a good idea.
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Owner Alex Berkowitz has been thinking up new ways to spice up the bagel experience for a while now.
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I always say Silicon Valley is a lot of really smart people thinking up trivial things, at this point.
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If you've ever wanted to build an app after thinking up a brilliant idea, you're in the right place.
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To stop the coronavirus from spreading further, the Chinese government is thinking up new ways to separate its people.
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"I think we're going to have to start thinking up strategies to basically hold our ground," Gallego said. Rep.
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One of them is the writers have a really hard time creatively thinking up new stories for all these characters.
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One of them is that writers have a really hard time creatively, thinking up new stories for all these characters.
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Many of AI's creators had been boys with sci-fi dreams, thinking up scenarios from The Terminator and Blade Runner.
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For us, we spend a tremendous amount of time thinking up the worst things a politician can say or do.
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Nor has the company been thinking up new technology updates to introduce as a result of the surge, she said.
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Kara is already thinking up new ways to solve Dani's problem since she's the miracle worker we've all come to know.
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But after a few more questions and strokes of the cane, he was having trouble thinking up stuff to ask her.
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More difficult than thinking up a solo piece of body art, though, is getting a matching one with your significant other.
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In between her studies, Ulmer spends her time managing her business, traveling for speaking engagements and thinking up new product ideas.
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There is little evidence that Britain's elites are prepared to use Brexit as a spur to thinking up bright new policies.
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We Spent 10 Minutes Thinking Up Headlines for This Bucket of PoopIt's a great time to be an Amazon Prime member. Why?
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Instead, they spend their days thinking up ways to be more like easy-to-use consumer apps like Instagram and Google Maps.
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It was around 2000, Yorinks said, that the two sat down and started thinking up a story to tie the pictures together.
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The pair enlisted fellow Undergraduate Council juniors for help with the campaign video, after thinking up the concept in a dorm room.
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Search engines had already existed when Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to by thinking up and presenting the world with Google.
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Thinking up all sorts of different futures, embracing our fears and our dreams, is part of the process of building a better tomorrow.
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Otherwise, I'm not ready to take on the daunting task of thinking up a new password I'll have to recover in three months.
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Still, McDonald's New Zealand took a chance and recruited help from the World Wide Web in thinking up and naming a new burger.
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From thinking up a super-genius theme to plotting impressive (as opposed to cheesy) activities, the party pro's guide covers every single base.
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Gmail offers scripts that save you the effort of thinking up and typing routine email responses—and those scripts are often eerily appropriate.
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A couple years ago I decided to try my hand at themeless puzzles because I have such a hard time thinking up themes.
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Other automakers are thinking up their own clever solutions, too, like Toyota, which is using recycled Prius batteries to run 7-Elevens in Japan.
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So when she was thinking up the script of her parody Tampax ad, it was really important to Kahnweiler that the man took charge.
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Showing off her self-frayed jeans under her abaya, selling bracelets for pocket money and thinking up pranks, she is a universal pre-teen.
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And product designers have lavished no shortage of creativity on thinking up new shapes, sizes and materials — producing a range of statement-making accessories.
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Instead we should be thinking up all the ways they will empower new economic activity: cheaper, smarter public transportation networks; better access to medical care.
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Yet only a fraction of the political energy and capital invested in cutting immigration goes into thinking up and implementing ways of relieving its pressures.
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"Distract" gives you challenges to choose from, like counting backwards in sevens from 100, or thinking up a name for every letter of the alphabet.
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From art, to audio, to even just thinking up new gameplay mechanics, each game or project they took on would require a mountain of resources.
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Q: Do you ever find yourself these days thinking up a great one-liner for the Dowager Countess, then realizing you have nowhere to put it?
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Romney was doing what candidates normally do when thinking up Cabinet shortlists: look through elected officials and past Cabinet and sub-Cabinet appointees in earlier administrations.
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"There's no space left for thinking up some additional policies," said Shinichiro Kobayashi, a senior economist at the research arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
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Because the times have changed and the audiences can access the work in ways not available before, I spend my time thinking up new ways for presentation.
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UFC badass Valentina Shevchenko says Amanda Nunes is straight-up SCARED to fight her -- and she's already thinking up excuses to avoid meeting her in the Octagon.
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As much as that crotchety old person thinking up equation zingers for his Sunday column wants math to be the reason these teams failed, it just isn't so.
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The root beer stand will stay open until the school year begins, and Seth and his mother are currently thinking up new ways to improve their business model.
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Likewise, prioritizing thinking up smart ways to successfully hand off leadership duties to others isn't necessarily second nature for those who've built an organization from the ground up.
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Thinking up nonsense words, as absurd as it seems, is a common effect of psychedelics, says James Giordano, professor of neurology and biochemistry at Georgetown University Medical Center.
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So make sure you have the latest version of LinkedIn installed on your smartphone, and start thinking up some clever video ideas to share with your friends and colleagues.
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Click here to view original GIFIf half your work day is spent thinking up ways to troll and annoy your co-workers, today's going to be an easy one.
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He's hard at work on a book proposal and thinking up ideas to pitch as part of Facebook's new research initiative, which grants independent academics access to the company's data.
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It was simply humanity's good fortune that those big sexy brains turned out to be useful for lots of other things, from thinking up agriculture to building internal-combustion engines.
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"People who don't understand ADHD would label them as spacey even though they're thinking up the most brilliant things, the cure for cancer, while you're drinking your coffee," says Pearson.
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The more I've moved, the more confident and skilled I've become at understanding what customers want, thinking up new strategies, and taking the initiative to speak up and make changes.
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When that happens, sometime in the next couple of months, the Commission can take notice of the recommendations (which sources say is most likely) and then start thinking up possible legislation.
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If you've been thinking up new makeup looks to wear to your holiday happy hours and Friendsgiving parties, we've rounded up some eyeshadow inspiration ahead so you can start practicing now.
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While the rest of the world was freaking out over President Donald Trump's mysterious Twitter typo, Pete Souza, President Obama's official photographer, was busy thinking up his next troll of Trump.
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After thinking up the idea on a whim, I had not expected that Helene Hanff would be listed in the phone book, answer my call and invite us to her apartment.
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Clever academics and journalists have been thinking up ways of rewiring capitalism for decades, for example by giving more voting power to long-term shareholders or changing the composition of company boards.
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Economists have spent the past decade thinking up ways to boost spending and escape recession when interest rates are at zero, as they almost certainly will be during the next global slump.
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After all, the global ruling class has turned itself into an army of shit Baldricks, thinking up endless cunning plans to improve their own personal fortunes and every time unleashing utter chaos.
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He or she is always thinking up an angle on the news that has gone unnoticed — the real story behind the superficial news — able to break news and write exclusive, attention-grabbing stories.
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After thinking up the concept, it was another woman who connected Leibowitz with Kelli Anderson, a Brooklyn-based graphic designer who has worked on branding projects for many well-known New York restaurants.
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Some have proposed that NASA beam out a digital "Golden Record 2.0" that would be beamed out to the New Horizons spacecraft in 2020, so it's not that unrealistic to start thinking up ideas.
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But at the risk of sounding, uh, cheesy, what I miss most is being weird and stupid with my friends: Playing Bananagrams, drawing on T-shirts with Sharpies, and thinking up synonyms for cheese.
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And then there are cooks like me: easily able to follow a recipe in a cookbook and turn out tasty results, but not so good at thinking up new recipe ideas on my own.
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As NASA's New Horizons spacecraft continues to speed through the solar system after its historic rendezvous with Pluto and Ultima Thule, scientists on Earth are thinking up ways to do even more with the mission.
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And I think having witnessed innocence as well as the harm of my generation thinking up these tech platforms, and now wrangling with the consequences of what has been created, requires us to be thoughtful.
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The Democratic Party wasn't too far ahead, but they can't be blamed in the same way that Republicans can for thinking up and ensuring the passage of DOMA as a wedge issue in the 1996 election.
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The US military apparently never tires of thinking up capability gaps, and that means we may soon see fleets of small drones dropping out of bombers, then later being yanked out of the sky by cargo planes.
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The authors speculate that, for now, biases towards capital in the tax code, or simply an "almost singular focus" on artificial intelligence, might be tilting firms towards automation, and away from thinking up new tasks for people.
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The duo spend most of their free time thinking up the experiments they want to shoot in slow motion, and then only occasionally get together throughout the year to film a bunch of videos in a row.
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While KPMG and Deloitte are thinking up ways of giving their London employees a helping hand, some large banks have come up with another solution: moving jobs out of the city or even out of the country.
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With important debates about immigration, health care, and war and peace, would you have wanted the members of the House Judiciary and Intelligences committees chained to their computers for an entire week just thinking up "gotcha" questions?
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The relationship feels one-sided Long-distance relationships take a lot of work, and it's very apparent when only one person is initiating texts, sending care packages, and thinking up new ways to have long-distance sex.
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But it's a significant step up in both convenience and security from thinking up 100 passwords and usernames, or even having to fire up a two-factor authentication app every time you want to log in somewhere new.
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We don't know if 23andMe will produce this particular product, but we do know the company is thinking up other streams of revenue in the future and, according to the company, working on something more comprehensive than genotyping.
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In 1982, after a close friend had died in a trapeze accident, he had spent a mad few months hardly sleeping or eating, thinking up more than 250 devices to help disabled or paralysed people perform daily tasks.
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As the chief technology officer for Returnly, a financial technology company for retailers and brands, I spend most of my day thinking up new ways to help online retailers provide consumers with the simplest and most fair return experience.
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From "glamorous camping" in Ladakh to opulent palace hotels in Rajasthan and from fancy train rides across the peninsula to village art appreciation walks, Indian holidays are being carefully crafted by professionals constantly thinking up ideas about how to wow wealthy travelers.
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The full moon in Aries arrives on September 24, bringing a climax to a long-brewing conversation and illuminating the sector of your chart that rules your mind—you're making some interesting connections and realizations at this time, and thinking up brilliant ideas!
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If the conmen in the Valley can convince you that they are a new and exceptional kind of evil, you will spend time thinking up new and exceptional ways to fight back, intimidated and a little bit in awe of their bravado.
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Coakley started thinking up a better system and asking trusted experts how he could make something that would seamlessly integrate the apps and maximize profit, but everyone told him there's no way to do it without getting permission to scrape Uber's and Lyft's APIs.
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But it would be a real shame to see Apex Legends stumble because it's too busy testing the limits on what maximum it can charge per item, when it could be thinking up creative ways to make fans want to spend time and money and support it.
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Simply put, far too many of the people who have designed the wondrous parts of the internet — thinking up cool new products to make our lives easier, distributing them across the globe and making fortunes doing so — have never felt unsafe a day in their lives.
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The students are thinking up creative ways to give them a "more active voice and feel like this is not just something that has happened to them, but that they can be involved in what comes next," said Barbara Frailey, assistant head of school for the Seattle Girls' School.
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At the end of the day, it might seem depressing that some White House government employees spend their time thinking up things for the president to say incorrectly, but then again, they're not the office responsible for vetting Trump appointees that goes around "Icing" one another all day long.
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KS: Just try to avoid the Tom Cruise bad acting, which is real hard, but there's a ton of little stuff if you look throughout, done by the imagineers at Disney, I think, who were thinking up these things which are now ... That was probably 15 years ago plus.
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Bureaucracies may be good at telling firms to do things; they are not necessarily good at getting them to do things in the best way, because they allow too little room for manoeuvre, or of thinking up what the most interesting things for them to do might be.
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But offering them in the first place introduces Echo users to the idea of shopping with their voice, and if we can learn anything from Amazon's hardware history, it's that the company is always thinking up new ways for us to buy things — ideally with minimal effort (and thought).
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Like other Facebook app components, such as automatically generated captions for video ads, the M reply buttons are created using artificial intelligence — Facebook isn't actually running a contact center full of people who are following your Messenger conversations and thinking up possible answers for you on the fly.
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If you're planning on shopping at outlets where you haven't purchased anything before, it's a good idea to get these accounts set up ahead of time—this means you aren't rushing when it comes to thinking up new passwords and entering potentially sensitive information into your web browser.
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"I spend a lot of my professional life thinking up and searching for scary things, but it wasn't until I was drifting off and was interrupted by a partner swearing she saw someone outside the window that I understood how unnerving it can be to be," Ruth writes in the director's notes.
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I could be forgiven for thinking, up until last night anyway, that we'd learned this lesson a few years ago in Syria (when President Obama promised not to send in troops) and ever since has spent an increasing amount of his time performing pretzel-esque adjective contortions at the White House briefing room podium (they're not 'combat' troops!
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I'm also a military-history buff, so I'm loving Giles Milton's well-researched 2016 book, published in the United States as CHURCHILL'S MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, about the secret British government department tasked with creating new weapons, waging guerrilla warfare and thinking up inventive ways to whack Nazis during World War II. Milton's dry, witty narrative style helps balance descriptions of some ghastly maneuvers, making a pretty lively read.
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Every day, we'd wake up to learn that some new shocking alleged thing had allegedly happened, and before we had time to think about it, the political-media complex, always in Outrage Condition Red, would explode in righteous fury, with Side A and Side B hurling increasingly nasty accusations at each other and devoting immense energy to thinking up ways to totally DESTROY the other side on Twitter, a medium that has the magical power to transform everything it touches, no matter how stupid it is, into something even stupider.
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