Listicles
Lists are ways of organizing thoughts. Some thoughts work better this way. For instance, groceries:
Eggs, milk, butter, cheese, prostitutes.
Some manly ways to get injured
skinny dipping with hammerhead sharks fighting a grizzly bear marathon lovemaking climbing mount everest Mixed Martial Arts Volunteer for someone shooting an apple
pixel:by the numbers
Age: 25. Money in Bank Account: $861.25. Amount in debt: >$7,000. Amount others owe me: >$1000. Yearly Income: $23,000-26,000. Rent: $700. Amount accumulating interest: $240. Books in personal library: 125. Books stolen from library counted in my library books: 58. Alcohol in my house: >$400. Height in centimeters: 178. Weight in kilograms: 82. BMI: 25.5. …
Some Improper Ways to Divide Medicine
Rather than the current specialty system, where people train on certain types of ailments, often localized to age range and body part, I can think of many other ways to subdivide medicine. Here are the worst: Alphabetically: “Oh, I can give you the Measles and Mumps shot, but I’m not really competent to mess with…
Seventeen Non-Negotiables
My friend Jack thinks that smoking is non-negotiable. Even if someone was the girl of his dreams in every other respect, if she smoked he wouldn’t be interested. I have quite other things that matter more to me: Has to be born a woman1 Has to presently identify as a woman Has to be trustworthy…
What is your life even for?
(cross-posted) These are the seven themes of my life. Things I strive for whenever I’m not decompressing. Trust. I’d rather die than break a promise. I haven’t broken one since I was 15. I have lied many times in that decade. Some of them hurt more than others. I try to minimize my lies. Laugh. …
Three wishes or six half wishes
Instead of three wishes that will 100% come true, what would you wish for if you had six wishes that each had a 50% chance of coming true. Eternal Perfect Health The ability to find anything Teleportation Perfect Timing1 The ability to stop or slow time Perfect memory Invisibility did not make the list. Sorry….
Rule No. 103
Rules for Relationships: Call once, leave a message. Wait. You can call again, but don’t call again unless she calls back. If she wants to be with you, she will call back. If she doesn’t, why are you trying so hard?
seth: by the numbers
Number of stars gazed, with the naked eye: 1,118, with the mind’s eye: 10^10. Number of books read, by Card: 23, Pratchett: 20, Palahniuk: 11, Gaiman: 8, Rowling: 7, Bryson: 5, Salinger: 1. Number of books written: 0. Number of Theatre Ink sweatshirts: 8, t-shirts:, 3. Number of years of Hebrew School attended: 7. Number…
Ironically, he didn't see it coming.