If housing developed the way digital storage has, you could buy a house for less money than it cost 10 years ago, which comfortably accommodated 4x as many people, in 1/10th as much space.
One of the hardest and smartest things I ever learned was to accept I could be wrong. I'm still not batting 1.000 on it, but I'm better at it than I used to be.
The older I get, the more I realize that admitting you were wrong is incredibly hard for many people, and they will go to vast lengths and commit all kinds of mental contortions and tolerate all kinds of atrociousness rather than admit that they were mistaken. Doubling, tripling down, even.
A few of the most annoying people online have become angry at this joke column I wrote. I apologize to anyone who has experienced such a strong emotional response to it.
There's no such thing as an "industrial neighborhood" or an "industrial community". No, industrial land uses get called "areas". "Our new warehouse is in a quaint little industrial neighborhood in Vernon" is something I'd like to hear someone say someday, non-ironically.
Apparently (based on British detective novels I've read) they call police black & whites "panda cars" across the pond. I will start doing it too and see if it catches on on the US. It's such a fun image thinking of those cars rolling around eating bamboo
HERE WE FREAKING GO AGAIN
I’m stuck in the Richmond VA Airport, where I have flown for the @NWBA’s National Championships
WITHOUT EITHER OF THE WHEELCHAIRS I BOARDED WITH IN LOS ANGELES
@AmericanAir how did you lose ALL my mobility for the weekend?????
#FlyingWhileDisabled
Stacy's mom
Has got a nuclear bomb
I don't know where
She got uranium
Stacy can't you see
This is supervillainy
Somehow she got the bomb
That's why
We're at war with Stacy's mom
There's something very modern about this picture... Everyone is looking in different directions, like there's 5 people with their phones out all trying to take the picture at the same time and they don't know who to look at
If I said, "It has three C's, but the middle one is silent" you'd be forgiven foe thinking I was putting you on, but I'd actually be talking about Connecticut.
Today is Anosmia Awareness Day. While many people have learned about acquired anosmia because of COVID, some folks have congenital anosmia, and were born without a sense of smell. I have a family member with congenital anosmia. It's not as big a deal as being blind or deaf, but it exists.
