Domesticity

“We’ll just have to see how it goes,” she replied airily… which was not an entirely honest thing to say. Intelligent women know exactly how it will go, which is why so many of them can be found vomiting on the eves of their wedding.

~ Bob Shacochis, Domesticity

Choose wisely

You’re all seen Google Ads on the side of various web pages. This is what I saw today:

CUSTOM GENE SYNTHESIS
5 free DNA sequencing reactions with every synthetic gene order

If you see something strange as you’re walking around, perhaps this is the reason. It could be that someone did not choose wisely.

Reversible knitting

I was in a bookstore today, and saw a book with the title “Reversible Knitting.” I don’t knit, but I thought, “Brilliant! You make something, you get tired of it, and then you un-knit it and turn it into something else!”

Sadly, that wasn’t what it was about at all.

… and which parallel universe is THIS?

If there is an infinite number of alternate universes, in one of them there is a universe which does not have an infinite number of alternate universes.

This paradox will keep me awake tonight thinking about it. Well, OK, probably not me, personally, but some alternate version of me will be fretting about it somewhere.