When things happen in the 'Nick' of time I always wonder which Nick the speaker is talking about?
Why is it that nowadays failures are often deemed 'systemic'? Could it be because there are too many systems?
Why did India not get awarded a Nobel prize for energy conservation when the largest population ever (650M) involuntarily had no lights (for 15 hours that too not some piddly 1 minute drama that the developed world does)?
On that note - another prize to the doofus who calculated the number of people without power - being the fastest human population counter in the world.
Can we call Facebook - Fakebook? I heard there are a lot of fake people presenting fake information on fake things. What the Fake?
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
I think the correct abbreviation is WTF.
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