On the Internet, tiny attempts to improve a Web site's design can be made with little risk, because failed experiments simply vanish into the cybervoid.
Even so, Amy's hands-on appraisal of an expensive Frenchman and her tiny attempts at becoming human — making peace with her Texan mother, her dim sister Missy, and the ghost of her daddy, who never forgave her for abandoning the cattle business — are diverting.
"I was close enough to hear them breathing and the tiny attempts at roaring from the little one were cute," said Agate in a statement accompanying the photo.
They sound like opposites and yet, as all good storytellers know, much can be revealed by the tiniest attempts at concealment, and new revelations often hide as much as they make plain.
She repeatedly watched a scene from the film "Finding Nemo" in which a shark batters its way into a tiny room, attempting to eat the main characters.
Fleming's text reverberates with onomatopoeia: a hapless frog tumbles into a deep pit while fleeing a tiger with a "ribbit-oops!," and a tiny mouse attempts to assist with a worried "pippa-eeek!" Lots of rhythmic repetition makes this a winner for 3- and 4-year-olds.
Aside from the tiny screen, attempting to listen to music or talk on the phone will make you hyper conscious of the limitations of an 800mAh battery.
Having just met with some researchers at ASU who described space exploration as the equivalent to being in a tiny rowboat attempting to cross the Pacific, maybe so.
He took to Facebook to inform the world that the flood of Internet traffic that threatened to cripple parts of the Web emanated from Stophaus, an ad-hoc, amorphous group set up in January with the aim to thwart Spamhaus, a company it claims uses its "tiny business to attempt to control the Internet through underhanded extortion tactics".
If the tiny woman's attempt to physically get to Byrne ultimately failed, she can take some satisfaction in making a momentary metaphorical connection with the lanky legend, who before leaving the stage smiled broadly while seemingly catching a glimpse of her homemade expression of love.
