April 2010
22 posts
In Wal-Mart's Image →
Walton was furious. The mechanization of agriculture had finally reached the backwaters of the Ozark Plateau, where he was opening one store after another. The men and women who had formerly worked on small farms suddenly found themselves redundant, and he could scoop them up for a song, as little as 50 cents an hour. Now the goddamn federal government was telling him he had to pay his...
Medieval Chat Roulette →
Yes, it’s as awesome as you think it is.
Behold my fitness! →
I am now a person who goes to the gym. I am a gym-goer. Me.
At first I was forcing myself to go a couple of times a week, and now I’m up to four or five weekly visits. I am sad if I have to miss it. How could this have happened? I used to stand outside the gym, peering in the floor-to-ceiling windows, watching all those people running to nowhere while I ate my donut. I wiped powdered...
A friend of mine goes to Brown and she has a...
(via charliebartlett)
A Deep Dive Into Toyota Sudden Acceleration... →
The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota “sudden acceleration” fatalities, and, though the Times did not mention it, the ages of the drivers involved were striking.
In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89—and...
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clientsfromhell:
“It seems as though every time we ask you to do any work, we have to pay for it.”
WatchThe adorable Jessica Hische being interviewed at Semi-Permanent.
America’s Obesity Epidemic: Bringing Sideshow... →
This is Chauncy Morlan, and around 100 years ago his obesity was so shocking that people would pay money to see him as he toured the country as a circus “fat man”. I find the unremarkableness of his size to be a telling sign of how we’ve pushed the limits of obesity in the past 100 years. Imagine, if you will, what society would look like if 100 years from now if what passed as...
clientsfromhell:
Airline Client: “You quoted us for 8 days of 2D graphics. I think that’s way too much.”
Me: “It includes revisions.”
Airline Client: “Well, if you do everything perfectly and we don’t want to change anything, can you charge us less?”
Colleague: “If your airline flew us to London and got us there 10 minutes ahead of schedule, would everyone on the plane get a refund?”
Why are you so terribly disappointing? →
What the hell is wrong with you? Are you really going to wear that? Why aren’t you right now cooking me a nice meal and wearing those hot boy shorts you know I love and saying those words you know I want to hear at exactly the moment I like to hear them, to make me feel better about everything, even though I probably won’t?
What happened to my bonus? What happened to my job? What...
'I'm going to tell my son the worst swearword in... →
My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there’s a worse swearword than fuck. “No,” I say.
There’s a silence. “You’re lying,” he says.
“There’s none worse than fuck,” I say.
Joel narrows his eyes. “I know you’re lying,” he says. He leaves the room.
This 1-Year-Old Happy Meal Has Aged Surprisingly... →
