For a while now, I’ve thought that the Honda Element was the world’s ugliest car. But I was wrong.
Recently, I saw the Toyota Scion XB and it makes the Element look so much better.
So here’s my Random Thought: Why did someone think that designing a car to look like a shoebox on wheels was a good idea?
I’ve been keeping a running bibliography of books I read since 1993. I keep it in a little spiral note book and jot down the date I start and finish reading each book. This habit has proved helpful when I find myself re-reading a book that I didn’t remember reading … but everything feels like…
Nothing riles me more than being accused of something I have not done. For example, when I was in college I was playing a game of Scruples with my roommate and her friends. The basis of the games is a set of cards, each with a morally ambiguous situation. As each person takes their turn,…
I listen to a lot of radio, and therefore, a lot of radio commercials. My current favorite is for Cingular. A young man seeks the secret of happiness from a “master on the mountain.” It turns out that the secret to happiness is switching to the Cingular Nation plan and never standing on the left…
In the most recent issue of Penn State’s Research magazine, which I receive because I’m a member of the National Association of Science Writers, there was a little article that caught my eye. It was titled “High school biology teachers reluctant to endorse evolution in class.” I find this concept somewhat shocking. According to the…
On Fridays I go to see the acupuncturist. He’s been helping me, in conjunction with the chiropractor, heal from sciatica. This past Friday, he was removing the needles when my shoulder started tickling. So I rubbed it with my hand and felt something dripping. “Something’s dripping?” I said. “Oh. It’s just blood. Let me wipe…
There is a song that includes the following lyrics: In the midst of the sailing ships We sink our lips Into the ones we love Who have to say good-bye My question is, how does one “sink” one’s lips into someone? Unless, perhaps, you are a geriatric vampire who forgot to wear your dentures.