Yesterday I realized I wouldn’t have time to go grocery shopping until about January 2010, so I asked my roommate if he could grab the list of necessary items from the kitchen counter and do the shopping for me.
“Of course!” my roommate said, no doubt feeling very chuffed at the chance to prove [...]

I don’t care if I sound like a heartless person, I gotta say it: I like watching buskers on the subway.
My favorites are the breakdancers; those guys always get a dollar. Teens with violins are cool, too. Mariachi bands aren’t really my thing, but at least they have the gumption to drag a full [...]

BoingBoing is my go-to source for time-wasting news stories, and it always annoys me when a briefly interesting story turns out to be a marketing ploy, like this story about the world’s oldest basketball shoes. After doing a tiny bit of digging, it appears that the fake news story was circulated by a retro shoe [...]