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Let’s say you want to make a toaster. And you want to do it staring from scratch. If you need metal, you start with ore. If you want plastic, start with oil. And so on. If you actually try it, you end up with this fascinating video: As you can see, it’s not nearly as [...]
I went to lunch yesterday, and in the process I drove by a high school. I stopped at the traffic light while three high school students walked past on the crosswalk. And they were all lighting cigarettes. They looked to be 10th or 11th graders. “What a waste” is the thing that went through my [...]
Leigh cuts my hair. She cuts all of the kids’s hair too. She has been doing this for more than 10 years. It started because one day we were at a K-mart and they had a bunch of remaindered books on a table for a quarter each. One of the books was “How to cut [...]
TechCrunch ran an op-ed piece a couple weeks ago (thanks for the link, LOML) prognosticating that the relentless push of social media will soon be accountable for erasure of the line between business reputation and real life reputation. The bottom line, says the article’s author, Michael Arrington, is that reputation is dead. In the near future, there will be nothing but reality.
And is that such a bad thing? How horrible is reality? The guy who is ever chipper when you see him in the break room weekday mornings has been drunk at a wedding before. You know this because you’ve seen photos of him in suspenders, cigar dangling inexpertly between clenched teeth and all.
Here’s a really good reason why you should think for yourself: if you don’t, civilization as we know it will crumble and the streets will run red with the blood of the innocent. So that second part was fabricated, yes. The first part, about civilization crumbling, appears to be for real.
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