…our eighth grade yearbook was titled quintessence, but we hadn’t yet enjoyed fourty years of videogame development to forget how to spell…

…will spaghetti do in a pinch?..

…in sam and max hit the road, at least you could bungee jump out their noses…

IT’S A SERIES OF TUBES!

…i always ask providers up-front what is my cost without using any insurance versus my out-of-pocket cost after insurance, and most of the time it’s substantially cheaper not to use insurance at all even though it won’t count toward my deductible…

…those private-industry middlemen are a huge burden on the healthcare system, and they persist only because their costs are hidden from patients…

…that’s an A400, maybe luftwaffe?..

…texas is trailing at 41% low-carbon but wind and solar are gangbuster growth industries here…

22% wind
12% solar
7% nuclear
48% natural gas
11% coal

…i work in the sustainability industry and the dogmatic backlash i’ve seen against electrification is absurd…

…we used to visit louisiana from mississippi when we wanted to indulge in a classy weekend…

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…i’m old enough to have gone through gradeschool when the prevailing paradigm was for teachers to push all students to write right-handed; last i experienced that was corporate policy for all mice to be set up right-handed in the early nineties, so most of my peers growing up cultivated a grab-bag of super-immortal habits and terrible handwriting, to boot…

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…east asians don’t sweat, source: my wife…

…how many cords is four tonnes?..

(a cord is about 3.5 cubic metres of densely stacked wood, similar to the bottom picture, all parallel-racked and and neatly stowed)

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(looks left to mouse, looks down at sideways notebook, looks back to display)

…so here’s the thing: ergonomically, we hold and manipulate writing implements around 135° from the writing surface, which most-smoothly draws across the page at that oblique angle, pulling your hand outward, back of pen and and hand first, fingers and writing tip last, character strokes moving center-out and top-down so we can see what we’re writing and avoid smudging everything with our hand…left-handed or right-handed, that doesn’t change, and although some lefties struggle to contort their hand around top, stabbing into the paper at an acute 45°, it’s an awkward, uncomfortable, smudgy mess fighting against both ergonomics and mechanical advantage of the pen-and-paper…

…righties write accordingly, pulling the pen out-and-down, but if we rotate the page 180° (90° clockwise from a left-handed perspective) lefties do exactly the same, pulling the pen out-and-down, it’s just that text flows along the down-axis and the rows flow on the out-axis…

…another way of looking at it is to take that japanese text above and rotate it 90° counter-clockwise: now it flows left-to-right, top-to-bottom…sure, in either case one might counter that the letters are sideways but that’s just a matter of convention in how one interprets the rotated glyphs; book spines are still perfectly legible…

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