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What the title says.

Think of all the time we could’ve saved if we had known this before!

Your excuse for an education is even more incomplete if you have not read this article.

“You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg”.

A short story by Joses Ho.

“He who has never learned the art of drudgery is never likely to acquire the faculty of great and memorable work, since the greater a man is, the greater is his power of drudgery”.

Read the post once on its own accord once; there’s some truth in it. Then read the post once more – but on that reading, assume it has been written as satire.

“But I’ve learned my lesson. I shall never believe anything celebrities say again.

The next time I see Gurmit Singh hosting a show on TV and says, ‘We have a great show for you tonight,’ I will retort, ‘No, you don’t.'”

The entire column is a riot but this joke is extra funny because this S M Ong fella is the same Smong of Live on Five fame (a variety show that Gurmit Singh used to host in the ’90s).

“…small shifts in thinking that can have large effects… [e.g.] Dutch drivers are taught that when you are about to get out of the car, you reach for the door handle with your right hand — bringing your arm across your body to the door. This forces a driver to swivel shoulders and head, so that before opening the door you can see if there is a bike coming from behind… . The coexistence of different modes of travel is hard-wired into the culture”.

Well, it makes sense. In a way.

“My parents spent hundreds [of] thousands of dollars sending me to an overseas university, and I end up writing a blog and running a gym”.

On the other hand, one could say that this was THE lesson – albeit, an expensive one – he needed to learn in order to find out what he wanted to do with his life.

You may think it overly pedantic, but some people really need to be taught how to use/send e-mail messages that are coherent and tailored for easy reading. (via)

“I just believe that by looking at a guy’s footwear you can tell a lot about his personality without even speaking to him”.

Everything is text, yo’. And because I’ve come to realise many people don’t get the references I make: “Everything is a text; this is a text”, according to Derrida.

Oh, for those halcyon days of Usenet and IRC.

Well, it sure beats pretending to be possessed.

“Like thank you notes, the giving of gifts to your hosts is becoming a lost art. When we do remember to bring a nice little something, it’s invariably a bouquet of flowers or a bottle of wine from the corner liquor store. Really, can’t we do better than that?”

I’m guilty of the ‘bottle of wine’ trick, so found this guide rather useful.