Getting through the pending mindfuckery As kids, my friends and I used to complain about having to learn — and worse, memorize — things because we could just “look them up.” It seemed like such a waste of time. It was all right there. I should contextualize this (and date myself in the process) by […]
Welcome to my semi-regular Five post: five interesting, potentially actionable, shareable things. Tiger tiger, burning bright… Apparently there are 7000 tigers living in private facilities in the US, which is more than the 5000 still left in the wild. If you’d like to do something about this, you can always adopt a tiger. Connect the […]
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 […]
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 […]