Sometimes you’re surprised when you don’t get diarrhea
Category: Life Skills
Buying Boobles and Finding Bob: Adventures in Bureaucracy
There is a lady sitting alone in a room with no windows, looking at an old telephone, waiting for someone to call. She grants booble permits, and you are trying to buy a booble. But the secretary lost her number, and nobody talks to her at lunch, so nobody knows what she does. She gives…
Bad Bread
Sometimes, food goes bad. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t food.
Finding Bob
Perhaps you’ve found yourself living in a building that doesn’t offer recycling service. You could navigate the labyrinth of bureaucracy all day long and not find any reliable answers. Are buildings required to offer it? Does it cost money? How do you get a blue box? Why did every person I spoke to give me a…
Tie your Shoes (together)
When they’re not on your feet, they should be tied together. Not only are they less likely to get lost or separated, but the functional gains can be considerable.
What to do with a jar of pickled asparagus spears (if you can ever get it open)
A jar of Foster’s Pickled Asparagus Spears can be really hard to open, but once you do…
Optimal Processing: When to Slice your Bread and Peel your Bananas
What aging bread can learn from brown bananas
Problems with Milk and Toilet Paper
If you have Problems, you could look for Solutions. Or you could look for more problems. And gather them all up and lock them together in a room and see what happens.
