June 2008
3 posts
Medium Drinks
This is an awkward trend that always fascinated me. Lets bring the term “medium” into discussion for a moment. We’ll look at it in terms of what it may be describing.
Temperature: Not too hot, not too cold. Steak: Not too rare, not too cooked. Size: Not too large, not too small. These definitions suggest that something which is medium would fall somewhere between two...
Ice Cream Elevator
Here’s something amusing that happened the other day. Everyone at the office decided to go down and buy some ice cream from one of the lazy trucks that had parked nearby. I haven’t gotten ice cream from a truck in years. It was amazing. Soft-serve with sprinkles and everything.
About nine of us went down that day. On our return trip in the elevator, we stopped prematurely to pick...
Subway
Let’s just assume for a moment that you’re a reasonably groomed, fairly clean individual who doesn’t have anything strange — like a third eye or something off-putting like that. You take the subway to and from work each day. Okay, cool.
Subway seating is a very exhausting thing. You want to avoid sitting directly next to someone but it’s perfectly excusable to do...