Encased in marketing chestnuts so hard as to need a hammer drill to escape. But which hammer drill? The top brand? Recommended by four out of five? A similar generic? A cheaper, well-known brand? Or will the need to get out require a much bigger lever? A much bigger hammer? Will the task require Mjolnir …
Author Archives: Kurt Gailey
Rolls
When you were a child, you found the middle of the toilet paper roll fascinating. Maybe you sent a marble through it, or a Hot Wheels car. You might have even taped two tubes together and imagined they were binoculars. It was a simple thing, but it was limitless in your imagination. Not long after, …
Save It For Later
We all could learn something from the woman who takes out a stick of gum and tears it in half. Everyone knows a woman like this. She only chews half and saves the other half for later. She’s amazing. She’s the opposite of the kind of person who eats an entire package of cookies and …
Ten Minutes To Write, Two To Read
Wise writers know when to cut out the fat. The great thing about shorter posts is that you don’t have to devote a lot of time to read them. The longer ones might go unnoticed because, well, too long. Bigger isn’t better in every case. Likewise, TLDR is not a prescription for anything. It’s not …
Lost
A short list of things I’ve never lost: An adult tooth Furniture A train A plane A meatball The beat My bellybutton A squirrel’s nut cache A staring contest Resolve An invisible cloak Things I have lost: Baby teeth Vacuum attachments Elevator shoes A transmission A whole Volvo One pineal evocator Three left socks An …
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