Tipping was never supposed to be this way. It started as a small thank-you for exceptional service — a few extra bucks for the waiter who remembered your drink order or the bartender who stayed late. Now it’s a guilt-driven[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Let us address the great, bubbling taboo of hydrotherapy: the hot tub is a vessel of relaxation, not a fondue pot. It is a temple of warm, chlorinated serenity, and your buffalo wing is not an offering it will accept.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A curious shift is occurring in our collective ethics, best described as the normalization of theft. We haven’t embraced crime; we’ve simply adopted the aesthetic of kleptomania, rebranded it as forgetfulness, and declared it a universal condition. The first frontier[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The human mind is now a masterpiece of high-level outsourcing. We have willingly, even eagerly, offloaded the most basic data of our own lives to tiny, pocket-shaped silicon brains. We are not forgetful; we are efficiently managed. Consider the phone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the outside, an IT department appears to be a group of people who keep the internet from collapsing. But listen to their job titles, and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled into a Renaissance Fair crossed with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is both fascinating and horrifying to watch the modern mating dance, which seems to hinge on a kind of creative, aspirational autobiography. Based on my discussions with those still dating, the entire process is built on a foundation of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Quick Primer for the Non-Technical: Staging Area: A final testing environment that mimics the live product. Deprecated: A term for software, features, or entire modules that are considered obsolete and are scheduled for removal. Patch/Update: A piece of code[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have you ever noticed that the moment a company needs to sell you something, the fundamental laws of mathematics take a coffee break? I went to a regular business school, but there must be a secret school where marketing majors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Navigating a modern superhero movie has become less of a leisure activity and more of a part-time job that requires its own certification. You don’t just buy a ticket and some popcorn anymore; you strap in for a doctoral thesis[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
