From this, Valparaiso's players draw no small measure of amusement.
He sometimes lets his anxiety and fatigue show, but mostly he seems to regard his situation with stoicism and a measure of amusement.
They enjoy each other's company, and, if their unlikely friendship includes a large measure of amusement and incredulity, they are well matched when it comes to the steel behind the strategic courtesies that each deploys.
"Don had to go through fifty of my songs to figure out which ones were the best," Ed recalls with a measure of amusement.
A 2010 study in Science measured the success of pay-as-you-wish pricing schemes by selling souvenir photographs at an amusement park, with some at a fixed price and others for whatever buyers wanted to pay, some with buyers thinking the money went only to the amusement park, and others told half the money went to charity.
For example, Affectiva might train a webcam on users while they watch ads, tracking their smirks, smiles, frowns and furrows to measure their levels of surprise, amusement or confusion throughout a commercial and compare them to other viewers across different demographics.
The group leader shook his head no, and I was thrust back to my youth and all of the amusement park rides closed to me because I couldn't measure up to that cardboard cutout at the entryway.
Growing up in Spring Lake, N.J., an upper-middle-class enclave, the son of an insurance company executive, he recalls, with some amusement, how the nuns in parochial school used the ruler for more than just measuring.
They wanted to be able to see themselves -- to measure their growth, to make funny faces, to bang their open palms against their own reflections in amusement.
Those numbers, first reported by The Villager and later by The New York Post, have elicited equal measures of anger and amusement in the world of parochial education.
Otherwise the millions spent on marketing are wasted.So it was with some amusement that we spotted Visible Measures' top 10 most watched video travel ads of 2012.
