A Pain in the App

A pain in the app

Dear Parent or Guardian, We are reaching out today, on this perfectly viable communication method known as email, to let you know you have to download and install yet another app so that we can communicate with you. This app replaces the one we insisted you download last year, TooCoolForSchool. Please note, we’ve heard the […]

it should be patentely obvious

It should be patently obvious

They say Necessity is the mother of invention. (We don’t know who the father is yet, because Necessity is keeping quiet until she can launch a paternity suit.) “They” are definitely right. All I wanted to do, you see, is vacuum the rug. It desperately needed a good cleaning, because we broke Chandra’s Decorating Tip […]

Five Interesting Things

5 Interesting Things #17

Time once again for five interesting, potentially actionable, shareable things. Plus a bonus 6th thing. Let’s dig in! Clam… solar panels? Apparently, giant sparkly clams, which I didn’t know were a thing, have algal farms that could unlock super efficient bioreactors for the green energy transition. Full explanation at the link. What causes totalitarianism? Samantha […]

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Is your refrigerator running?

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, people used to spend a lot of time doing phone pranks. Someone, usually a kid with too much time on his hands, would call random numbers and ask “is your refrigerator running?” If you replied yes, the comeback was “well, you’d better go and catch […]

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