A well executed inside joke can be a beautiful thing, but I often find that most people don’t really get the true purpose of the device. Inside jokes are meant to breed a sense of community, not celebrate the exclusion of those not “in the know”. That is why I simply don’t understand why people constantly use the term incorrectly or attempt to misappropriate the inside jokes of others. Click here to read more »
You know, I thought it was common knowledge, but I was completely wrong. Apparently a good portion of the driving public needs me to drop a little bit of knowledge on them. So here it is: Do you know what traffic lights, road signs, painted lanes, center dividers, shoulder barriers, and other common driving indicators have in common? They were all put there by the people who built the roads, freeways, and parking structures to help indicate to drivers where they were actually supposed to be driving their vehicles. I know it sounds obvious, but as the experience in my local Trader Joe’s parking lot has shown me, it’s not really common knowledge.
Earlier this week while sifting through my RSS feeds, I stumbled onto a pretty ingenious concept design for improving the average traffic light. The “Eko light is a simple yet, highly practical concept for traffic lights that not only helps preserve the environment by reducing pollution but promotes safer driving as well.” While I seriously doubt the validity of the designers ecological intensions, I do believe the concept’s benefits to driver sanity could be enormous.
Last night I attended the wedding of some old high school friends (grats! Ben & Kim). Interestingly enough, it was the second wedding I’ve attended this month that joined together a couple that had been a couple for over eight years (grats! also to James & Nancy). When I woke up this morning I began reflecting over the wedding, the duration of the couple’s relationship, and my own past relationships. After a while, I stumbled on to an obvious, yet really interesting, fact that I hadn’t really thought of before. If you’ve ever had a relationship in your life AND you’re currently single, you effectively have a 100% failure rate for relationships.
Go ahead and take a quick look at your alarm clock. If you’re not home right now, close your eyes and visualize it for a moment. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Now that you’ve got it, try to remember the alarm clock you owned before that one. Now the one before that. If you think about it, the alarm clock hasn’t really changed much over the past several years. With all the technological progress we see every day, why have there been no significant advancements in alarm clocks?