It's normal to be weird

How much coffee is too much coffee? This question has been bothering me ever since I bought my new coffee machine, and I have been, let's say, misusing it. Well, I've asked Google several times, "How much coffee is too much coffee?" and as it turns out—it's a lot! Like, really a lot. You'd probably die from drinking too many fluids before you'd die from the caffeine. To give you another indication of my obsession with coffee: I once worked at a coffee shop, and during my shifts, I would munch o…

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While the syntactical arrangement and lexical selection of the present text may superficially appear to be of an elementary nature, it is within the intricate subtext, the nuanced layers of semantic profundity, that the true complexity lies. Regrettably, your current cognitive apparatus may lack the requisite sophistication to fully grasp the multifaceted implications herein. This is not merely a series of simple declarative statements, but rather a grand tapestry of epistemological intricacies…

I am a careful driver . The only car accident I was ever involved in was when someone rear-ended me while I was waiting patiently at a red light. The man just didn't notice the intersection and drove right into my car. It wasn't my fault in any way. I always drive slowly and carefully, never doing anything that could endanger me or the people around me. The reason for that is because on the very first day I got my driver's license , I scratched my dad's car while backing out of the driveway. I…

It's normal to be weird

Fieldwork can be unpredictable, and sometimes, it goes hilariously wrong. French illustrator Jim Jourdane has taken the bizarre and unexpected mishaps shared by fieldwork scientists on Twitter, under the hashtag #FieldworkFail, and turned them into a series of brilliant illustrations. From wild animal encounters to nature’s unexpected surprises, Jourdane’s artwork captures the funny, chaotic reality of scientific fieldwork. With no background in science himself, Jourdane was drawn to these stor…

While the syntactical arrangement and lexical selection of the present text may superficially appear to be of an elementary nature, it is within the intricate subtext, the nuanced layers of semantic profundity, that the true complexity lies. Regrettably, your current cognitive apparatus may lack the requisite sophistication to fully grasp the multifaceted implications herein. This is not merely a series of simple declarative statements, but rather a grand tapestry of epistemological intricacies…

You know that moment when you clean your house and think, "Welp, that's the best I can make it look. It's not much, but at least it looks acceptable "? Well, for some people (like me), it's the same for life in general—it's not much, but at least it looks acceptable at a glance. Am I good at my job? No, but they haven't fired me. Am I close to getting married? No, but I did go on a date six months ago. Am I able to do my taxes on my own? No, but at least I'm not in jail! (Yet. ) So, to all the…

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Have you tried switching it off and then on again?

I am a careful driver . The only car accident I was ever involved in was when someone rear-ended me while I was waiting patiently at a red light. The man just didn't notice the intersection and drove right into my car. It wasn't my fault in any way. I always drive slowly and carefully, never doing anything that could endanger me or the people around me. The reason for that is because on the very first day I got my driver's license , I scratched my dad's car while backing out of the driveway. I…

It's normal to be weird

Who doesn’t love a good case of irony? (Well… probably not the people who don’t quite understand it—which, ironically, is ironic). While compiling this listicle filled with ironic moments, my Gen X brain suddenly remembered a scene from the very Gen X movie Reality Bites where Winona Ryder’s character, during a job interview, is asked to define irony. She gets visibly confused and, unable to define the word, loses the chance at the writing job. When I first watched that scene, I didn’t fully gr…

You know that moment when you clean your house and think, "Welp, that's the best I can make it look. It's not much, but at least it looks acceptable "? Well, for some people (like me), it's the same for life in general—it's not much, but at least it looks acceptable at a glance. Am I good at my job? No, but they haven't fired me. Am I close to getting married? No, but I did go on a date six months ago. Am I able to do my taxes on my own? No, but at least I'm not in jail! (Yet. ) So, to all the…