Summary In today's episode, I explore a satirical sketch where a frustrated partner calls tech support to upgrade her romantic companion like a household appliance. Here's what this means for you. You see how dark comedy exposes the absurdity of treating relationships as customizable products with feature lists. You'll also learn these concepts: how satire…
As I recently posted on Instagram, I bought my family a lockpicking training set. Lockpicking is an essential skill that every child and parent should know. From accidentally locking your keys in the house to ensuring our children have the skills to escape a bad situation, lockpicking literally opens doors. Obviously, some folks are uncomfortable…
Every year at the office potluck, I try to find new and different ways to make stuffing that requires the largest, longest possible warning sign while still being delicious. Why? It’s the fun and challenge of kitchen chemistry. Fortunately, lots of people bring different kinds of stuffing, so it’s not as though mine were the…
One of my newest toys – and it’s admittedly very much a toy – is an Anker Roav C1 dashcam. What’s a Dashcam? If you’re unfamiliar with the technology, dashcams are car-mounted video cameras that record everything, all the time. They typically mount via adhesive to the windshield and plug into the power connector in…
I have a nearly irrational love of PVC piping. PVC is incredibly versatile stuff: strong, durable, flexible, resistant to breaking down. True, it does break down over time, but that timeframe is roughly 140 years, longer than our operational lifetimes. Over the years I’ve made instructions for how to build camera stabilizers, strawberry towers, and…
Happy Pi Day! For the socially minded, here’s Pi in 140 characters: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208 998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231 The hashtag eats 7 places: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208 99862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955 #piday If you want to really annoy people, you can post on Facebook up to 63,206 characters in one post: 3. 14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899 86280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502 84102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165 27120190914564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127372458700660631558817 48815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094 33057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548074462379962749567351885752724 89122793818301194912983367336244065664308602139494639522473719070217986094370277 05392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091 73637178721468440901224953430146549585371050792279689258923542019956112129021960 86403441815981362977477130996051870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631859 50244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100031378387528865875332083 81420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882353787593751957781857780532 17122680661300192787661119590921642019893809525720106548586327886593615338182796…
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Ever had a New Year’s Resolution go bad? Ever fallen off the tracks in the start of a new year and had it impact your whole year? Why wait until the ball drops in Times Square when you can drop the ball right now? I’ve been failing December – intentionally – and loving it. This…
How many blog posts haven’t you read yet? How many podcasts haven’t you listened to yet? How many messages in your inbox are just languishing there? Some of them are landmines. After all, yesterday was April Fool’s Day, but you might not get to those April 1 blog posts in your RSS reader for a…
I have to hand it to Symantec for perfectly cloning Japanese kids’ shows with this ad series for Norton Antivirus. Part 1: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XLPZSHkFjA[/youtube] Part 2: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXWGDS3hoNM[/youtube] More cheese than all of Paris. Hat tip to Erik Carlsson for these absolute gems.
