Category — Microblog Mondays

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Chaffetz said this week that people will need to choose between getting a new iPhone and health care.  Let’s set aside for a moment that the cost of the two items are not comparable; that health care is a lot more expensive than a phone.  Instead, let’s talk about the fact that we’ve set up a culture where having a phone is as important as having health care.

If you do not have a phone (landline or mobile), it is hard to get a job.  Hard to get a home. Hard to enroll in school.  Many years ago, Josh’s boss wanted him to get a blackberry.  She paid for his cell service because she admitted that it was such a huge ask.  On the other hand, every job I’ve held in the last 5 year has expected me to have a mobile device and to use said mobile device for video meetings and text messages.  It isn’t a question of “do you have…?” but “what is your number?”

We’ve built a mobile expectation into our work culture in the same way that employers expect employees to have access to transportation to get to work on time and an appropriate wardrobe for the work space.

Think for a moment: could you do your job or live your life without a mobile device?

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It isn’t surprising to read that you can’t exist on one food alone (though potatoes apparently would keep you alive the longest), but did you know that you’re hardwired to eat a varied diet?  The BBC article states:

Humans have built-in mechanisms to avoid just such a situation (probably because it eventually leads to malnutrition) – specifically, a phenomenon called sensory-specific satiety: The more you eat of one thing, the less you can stomach it.

But I love eating the same thing.  Back in graduate school, I ate the same thing for every meal.  It was a roasted vegetable and tofu sandwich on a bagel.  I ate three of them every day for years.  I would still be eating at the sandwich if everyone else in this house would agree to consume it, too.  But the meal varies from night to night because I have to cook dinner for everyone else.  (Though breakfast and lunch are always the same for me.)

There is no possible way I could ever get bored of Special K.  No way that I could ever get sick of cucumbers.

What is the one food you think you could eat over and over again, sensory-specific satiety be damned?

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There is a town in England that has a box of prophecies, kept in a secret location near the Panacea Museum.  That fact is just a small portion of a larger article about a ritual held at the museum last December, but I kept scrolling back and forth, trying to digest every morsel of information about this box.

How could they not open it?

Regardless of how you feel about the contents inside, whether you think they’re true or random blatherings, how could people continue to let time pass without reading the predictions?  What if we never declare the bishops in crisis and the box gets lost?  Or the box is opened hundreds of years from now and the contents have disintegrated?

Who is hiding the box?  And is there a contingency plan if something ever happens to that person?

Aren’t you curious about the contents of the box?  Would you want to know the prophecies?

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I love the idea of a book club, but I hate the actuality of a book club because every one I have ever been in goes the same way.  I read a book that I don’t really enjoy because it’s the selection, foregoing something I really do want to read, and then arrive at the meeting and discover that over half the group hasn’t read it at all, and no one really moves to discuss it.

But I thought this book club for two is a brilliant idea.  Rather than reading the book ahead of time, they read it over the phone to one another.  They can discuss it in real time or just relax and listen to the story.

I do this with the twins — we’re currently reading Sleeping Giants together, though the ChickieNob and I are also reading Twilight without the Wolvog — but I never thought to do it with someone my age.  I guess you would have to find someone who shares the same reading taste so you don’t run into the problem above — spending time with books that annoy you at the expense of spending time with a story you want to read.

What do you think about reading a book aloud with another person as a book club for two?

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The ChickieNob insisted that you can send a blank text.  “Watch,” she said, opening up her messaging app and making a single blank space using the space bar.  She hit send.

A moment later, Josh sent back a question mark.  She sent another blank text.  Thus began a long thread of blank texts met by increasingly confused return messages, including a screenshot of the conversation in case the ChickieNob didn’t understand that all of her texts were showing up as blank bubbles.

She laughed and laughed and laughed.

Okay, it was funny on our end.  And no one got hurt, though I told her that she wasn’t allowed to do this to other people.  That’s sort of the thing about pranks: they’re usually only funny to the giver and not the receiver.

But keep that one in your back pocket for April 1st.

Best prank ever pulled or seen?

Our favourite SNL sketch (Maya Angelou pranks Cornell West!)

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