Death of the Stork, Birth of the Unseen Menace
The Times relayed to us this week the tale of new findings from space nonsense. NASA scientists, apparently having nothing better to do with their barrels of taxpayer money, decided to run a spectacularly expensive flying object into the debris of a comet. This sort of tomfoolery, most resembling a horde of teenagers driving too [...]
The Beauty of the Twelve-point Socket
A terrible scourge has infected our mechanical design culture. Its name is tool-less fastening. One will find the droppings of this is the craze emblazoned in advertisements promoting electronic componentry. It has even more recently spread its emasculating tentacles to the manly mechanical fields. Its idea is simple, even seductive upon shallow inspection. It is [...]
Lacking of Shoe Laces
There seems to be a new divide forming in this nation. Fashion is working its ugly ways, forcing itself upon our collective norms. Again. This insidiousness goes on almost imperceptibly until we are firmly in its grasp, left unawares as to how we arrived in this sorry state. Upon realizing the scale of this degeneracy, [...]
Up in the rafters
Marketing people simply must be exterminated. We all must be aware of that frighteningly Stalinist study that noted that people eat more quickly while listening to music firmly in the allegro spectrum. Now every little nook that one finds to partake in nourishment must be bouncing along to some infernal dance remix of Gordon Lightfoot’s [...]
