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Month: June 2012

Ode to Advil

Everyone credits “the wheel” as the most important technical advancement of all time. Thanks to a rolling rock, heavy things can move easily. That’s just fantastic. Apparently there was a big demand for rolling large items back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, cohabitating with cavemen and saber-tooth tigers. (I’m not sure if Unicorns were extinct yet at this point, so I won’t include them – I don’t want to muddle this post with inaccuracies.) It’s the 21st century now, and if I need to…

By Our Powers Combined

This is a perfect example of why I started this website. My mind is all over the place and I need a way to focus my energy constructively. I liken this to the rings of Captain Planet, where the five puny “planeteers” were worthless (especially Heart, let’s not act like he wasn’t a throw-in at some board meeting to promote nonviolent heroes – “hey, let’s get all of the elements of power like fire and wind, but it’ll be nothing…

The Road More Traveled

I just took the cheese out of my lunchbag and put it on my desk, then tried to put my lunchbag in the fridge and leave the cheese out. This happened about an hour after I went the wrong way on the highway this morning. It’s really not a great start to this week, even though nothing bad has happened yet. I just need to be careful today. It’s one of those days. I have to make sure I don’t…