A collection of ideas that don’t really fit anywhere else.
Every couple of years, there’s a major election, and as always, there are people, driven by unknown inner forces, who harass me to vote. Ads are scattered across TV, Facebook, radio, at work. People are wearing stickers and bragging. “I voted!” As if they just donated a kidney to a stranger. I don’t understand. […]
I’ve been thinking about words a lot lately. It all started when my wife brought home some donut holes. I immediately took issue with “donut holes.” Not the little balls of fried happiness themselves, but rather, the name. These little treats are not, in fact, holes. They are balls. They should be called donut
There are a lot of phrases, idioms, and metaphors in the English language which confuse me. For example, “going cold turkey,” or “under the weather.” I know how we use them, but I have no idea how they came to be. And I’m too lazy to Google it. Another odd example is the
There is an old question that is asked during job interviews- “What is your worst characteristic?” Or flaw, or trait, or whatever. I’m not sure what the purpose is from an interviewer standpoint, but I do know that as the interviewee, your goal is to make up something that sounds like a flaw but
Everyone you ever talk to says that they have a high pain tolerance. I don’t really have a reason to ask my patients, but the offer the information anyway. “Doc, this shoulder pain is terrible. And I have a HIGH PAIN TOLERANCE.” As if this suffering were severe enough to kill a less
I think about what I want done with my earthly remains after I depart this mortal coil, maybe more than I should. It’s not a scary or morbid line of thought for me, more along the lines of amusing, or interesting. I’m still young and healthy enough that it seems like a rhetorical question.
