I’m watching Asia’s Deadly Dozen, about sharks and snakes and such, on National Geographic HD. Good stuff. I just heard a claim that stopped me cold: “We kill an average of 36 million sharks every year.” That’s exactly what the narrator said. I rewound it to verify it. (DVRs are neat.) All righty, then. There … Read more
Don’t you love those unambiguous signals that you’re getting older? I don’t mean pasta-fueled ass spread, or no longer considering “staying drunk” a primary goal on vacation, or wishing these idiot kids would pull their damned pants up. I mean isolated and well-defined moments of mental slippage. I got jolted with one a little while … Read more
We’re going to make a schedule that is ridiculously, meticulously, obsessively detailed, considering neither human nature nor the entropy of the universe even perfunctorily when determining its plausibility. We will then treat any deviation whatsoever from the schedule—irrespective of its actual, measurable impact—as a complete fucking catastrophe. Said deviation will require the total destruction of … Read more