Some studies just shouldn’t be done. We know in the abstract that humans are basically constantly swimming in fecal bacteria. Can’t we leave it in the abstract? No, apparently. “Science” had to go looking for more details. First came reports that iPhone screens are bacteria farms (perhaps because the guys at College Humor keep playing …
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Tilting at Kindergarten
It’s 5 am and I’m up early to try to do some work before the kids get up because after we all leave the house, I will have to invest another morning in the quixotic search for a kindergarten (if I’m Quixote, who is my Sancho Panza? My iPhone? I am alone). My itinerary this …
The Opposite of Honor
If Hosni Mubarak, as was discussed here not long ago, saw himself as the father of his nation, during his demise he came across more like the dotty old bastard who tried to raise the belt one last time but got his ass kicked by his teenager. Muammar Ghaddafi, on the other hand, is obviously …
Photoshop and Weddings: A Russian Tragedy
Via the (very tasteful and talented) Seattle-based photographer Kirk Mastin comes the apocalyptic gallery of pixel-pain that is Sasha Snow’s ‘magazine’. The Russians, it would seem, suffer greatly from macrophilia. They are also, apparently, either insane or blind. Remember how, in delving into the whole baby yoga crisis, I used some of my time living …
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