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The Supermarket’s Scourge Against Tall People
Sunday, December 11th, 2011This Is How Hoarders Get Their Start
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Yes, that’s a kids’ shampoo bottle.
Road Tripped
Sunday, July 10th, 2011After 850 miles on the road I can still feel the car moving. And hear all the bad radio.
Movie Truism
Monday, March 7th, 2011If your character coughs even one time in a movie, you will die before the credits roll.
More Lactose Please
Monday, January 17th, 2011Man was not made to consume this much cheese in this little time.
Finger Jerky, Perhaps?
Monday, August 23rd, 2010You know after you remove a Band-Aid that’s gotten soaking wet: That white, wrinkly, squishy look that your skin gets where it’s been covered up? They need a really good name for that.
Wash Your Hands
Thursday, August 12th, 2010It’s gonna get dirty out there.
We have a bleak window of maybe 10 years, where we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely, but also grapple with the reality that we have nothing to treat these infections with.
Ill
Friday, July 9th, 2010Taking my first sick day in months… can’t remember the last time, actually. It’s amazing how being ill can totally derail all your plans, make everything suddenly take a back seat to your recovery, and delay everything you have going on. And at the same it can be liberating: No one expects you to get anything done when you can barely get out of bed.
Perhaps This Is Why My Drain Is Slow
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Plumber: “How did the water drain before?”
Me: “…”
Planes, Trains, and Vaporettos
Monday, May 24th, 2010Just back from 8 glorious days in Italy… jet lagged like nobody’s business, but replete…
Thinking about all the forms of travel required to get from here to Florence, around Tuscany, to Venice, back to Florence, and back to San Francisco. Looks a bit like this (not including copious amounts of time spent on foot):
taxi, plane, bus, plane, taxi, taxi, car (rental), car (friend), car (rental), taxi, train, boat(s), train, taxi, plane, taxi
All that’s missing is the rickshaw!
Sometimes Sleeping Is Hard
Monday, April 26th, 2010Had insane dreams last night. People (even some dead ones) from the distant past playing major roles. Espionage and hitmen after me, holed up in a hotel room. My kids were overgrown to 5’6″ tall (but still 4-7 years old).
Things got so weird I was woken up and told that I was having a crazy dream, then went back to sleep.
But that was part of the dream, too.
The hitman/hotel story continued where it left off.
Still not sure if I’m up.
It Was Only a Matter of Time…
Monday, January 4th, 2010I’m surprised it took so long…
Like Getting Hit in the Face
Friday, December 25th, 2009“I can’t stand to see a woman bleed from the mouth. It reminds me of that country and western music, which I cannot abide.”
- one genius line of many from In the Loop
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009If this isn’t Snuggie weather I don’t know what is.
Darkness Imprisoning Me
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Im Hurt
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
It’s funny because it’s true.
Be Mad
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.
(For all wondering, the comments on this piece are related to this post.)
BPA: We’re All Screwed
Friday, October 9th, 2009Society laughs at your fears about the BPA-laden plastic water bottle.
“When people talk about polycarbonate bottles, they talk about nanogram quantities of BPA [leaching out],” Warner observes. “The average cash register receipt that’s out there and uses the BPA technology will have 60 to 100 milligrams of free BPA.” By free, he explains, it’s not bound into a polymer, like the BPA in polycarbonates. It’s just the individual molecules loose and ready for uptake.
As such, he argues, when it comes to BPA in the urban environment, “the biggest exposures, in my opinion, will be these cash register receipts.” Once on the fingers, BPA can be transferred to foods. And keep in mind, he adds, some hormones — like estrogen in certain birth-control formulations — are delivered through the skin by controlled-release patches. So, he argues, estrogen mimics like BPA might similarly enter the skin.
In Other News, Ukranian Cash is Known as the Hryvnia
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Note to self/world: If you drop money into a toilet, let it go.
The emergency workers removed tiles, drilled the toilet out of concrete floor and cut the outlet pipe, but the man’s arm remained trapped in the chute. Hydraulic shears and a plumber’s torch were finally used to cut the man free.
