Fair warning: this might turn into a rant on Food Culture, The Death Of. At the grocery store last night, I picked up a few bars of Lindt dark chocolate (80%). As the checker rang them up, she looked at them quizzically and said, “what are you going to do with those?” I told her [...]
Talking to John the other day about someone who’s having a hard time finding a decent house to buy, I mentioned that all of the houses they’d looked at so far were real melons. “Melons?” “Yeah, melons. You know– the houses so far have been real duds.” “You mean lemons, then?” “Oh. Yeah.” What can [...]
In the lobby, a tutor is helping a coed learn Trigonometry. I hear snippets of their (one-sided) conversation, but not more than that. “See, if it’s on the inside… then if it’s on the outside…”. His charge is staring off into space. After ten minutes, he has her work a problem by herself. Across the [...]