Here’s a page from my autobiography. It was actually written by Jon Epstein and is an account from his life:
I was walking down the aisle to my seat today, and when I got close to my row, I saw a pretty girl sitting in one of the seats that would be next to mine. [...]
Archive for July, 2008
A page from my autobiography
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 30, 2008 | No Comments »
20 people at dinner
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was recently invited to a 20-person dinner, the first thing I did was madly type out the following play. I call it, “20 people at dinner.”
As a side note - the actual dinner I went to ended up being nothing like this.
“20 people at dinner”
Guy 1: Aaah, that was good. Let’s figure out [...]
Zimbardo puts an end to San Francisco
Posted in Our World Today on July 24, 2008 | No Comments »
37 years after psychologist Philip Zimbardo ended the Stanford Prison experiment early, citing problems with ethics, Zimbardo does the same with the San Francisco experiment, citing similar ethical concerns.
For his San Francisco experiment, Zimbardo purchased 100 acres of deserted farmland by Oakland, California in 1972, and populated it with approximately one million participants. Participants [...]
Viewer Mail - The Trojan War edition
Posted in Viewer Mail on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For today’s viewer mail, we’ve decided to pull a classic letter from our archives from a man named Menelaus. He writes:
Dear Al,
My wife recently ran away with another man, and I’ve kind of started a war over it. I’ve been besieging Troy for about 10 years so far. Is 10 years too long for [...]
Al Observes Things - A Fortune Folly
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I got a fortune cookie from a local Panda Express yesterday, and here’s what it said:
YOU WILL BE COMING INTO A FORTUNE
PANDA EXPRESS * PANDA INN
Here are my complaints:
Caps lock? Is that really necessary on a fortune?
I don’t like self-referential fortunes (unless they’re really clever).
Branding your fortune? …Really? …Really?
I had always hoped that [...]
Words of Wisdom - Be Yourself
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 20, 2008 | No Comments »
These words of wisdom were (and the ensuing analysis) were from Andrew Chung. The advice:
Be yourself
The only problem with this is that lots of people tend to be door mats.
Devil Pig: Vaudeville Sam and the Umbrella
Posted in Cartoons on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This cartoon was originally published in the Columbia Daily Spectator on 10/3/05. Don’t get it? Don’t worry. Neither did anybody else.
Caffeine Free Diet Coke tastes just like Regular Diet Coke!
Posted in Al Observes Things on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t you wish that you had a caffeine free diet beverage that tastes like its analogue diet beverage but without that washed down, caffeine free taste? Well I learned today that Coke’s dirty little caffeine free diet secret tastes amazingly like diet Coke, and it doesn’t have any caffeine! How do they do it?
Consider [...]
An Original eBusiness - Communal Tax Preparation
Posted in Understanding Finance on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Tax season may be over “per se,” but is tax season ever really over? Once one tax season stops, the next one begins. That’s what inspired the idea for my latest eBusiness: Communal Tax Preparation. It combines Web 2.0, Open Source, and the financial savvy of the average Internet user to make tax preparation [...]
Woes of Internet Dating
Posted in A brief history on July 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Dating has come a long way since the time of the cave man. Back in the paleolithic era, strong dating skills was a sign of leadership and essential for surviving, finding a mate, and eventually reproducing.
But resolution for this type of dating was quite low. Though cave men only needed to date animal tracks [...]
