So, That's What's Wrong With Americans...

First thought:  Duh.  Who would have guessed that chemicals designed to disrupt normal cell function actual do disrupt normal cell function!

Second thought:  1 out of 68 Americans are autistic??  Either autism is over diagnosed (probable) or Americans are not the cream of the reproductive crop (also probable).

Final thought:  notice that these studies come from California...where most of the produce is grown in the US?  

Yum yum, America.

More of the Same

Can you find the chick flick?

Can you find the manly man, special-effects movie?

It's just a little depressing to know that we're just going to keep making the same stereotypical movie with the same endings.

Defying the Stereotype

I'm blonde.

I'm a girl.

I love chemistry.

Guess they don't know about Marie Curie.

Thank god for Sharpies.

Experts

It never ceases to amaze me how many experts come out of the woodwork because they've had some successful experience.  For example, it amazes me how many people, particularly in permanent employee roles, are ready to claim that they're experts in Agile, just because they've worked on one long project that is doing well.

Does that make you an expert?

I guess it's easy to claim that you're a doctor if you've never had to cure anyone.

But isn't the true measure of an expert is being able to fix multiple types of problems with finesse?  Knowing that there isn't one cure-all bandaid for all problems?  Being able to make a beautiful, functional piece of furniture out of a piece of rotted driftwood...

And it's amazing how easy is to pick out the phonies with the least amount of experience with how quickly they force piles of documents and processes from their one good project onto yours.

Where should I put this?

So, upon moving, you have a tendency to take a good long look in the frig.  Especially, if you have to leave your house overnight and go somewhere else for the day.  You start to notice the small holes and leaks in the stack of free soy sauce packets and how it's made a tight bond in one of the door shelves and glued all of the contents to it.  You start to look at the expiration dates on things and wonder how you're still alive since your BBQ sauce is 2 years expired and there was a different president in office with your mustard.

You also notice the things in your frig that you put there but you can't remember why.  You search and search for the 4 point font that says, "Refrigerate after opening", only to realize that it isn't "Refrigerate after opening", but "Refrigeration recommended for better quality".  And then you ask yourself two questions:

Why is this printing so damn?  I mean, this is health to the consumer.  You'd think if a company really wanted to protect you from food poisoning with their product, they would make warning in 36 point font, capped, and bolded

REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES

The second question is this:  what should I do with the "suggested" but not concrete instructions of refrigeration during the move?

As a bit of penny pincher, I momentarily consider dumping it with the peanut butter in a box.  And then as a molecular biologist, shudder and envision the exponential bacterial growth in the product over the time span of two days...

...and end up chucking it in the trash.

Yum, yum.  Active cultures

OMG: Tigger Started Newspeak

FYI:  Tigger started newspeak/abbreviations/text talk.

Well, let's look at the facts:

A.A. Milne introduced Tigger in 1928.

George Orwell wrote about Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty Four in 1949.

Which means that "TTFN" (Ta-Ta For Now) came around before George Orwell wrote about a new way of writing that removed all of the vowels.

TGIT (Thank God for Tigger)

;P

Stylists

I recently started going to a different hairstylist.  The reasons don't really matter, but let's say that I have been very impressed with the quality and price...and then found out today that it's listed as one of the local "best places" to work (based on whatever their criteria is).  Now, I'm sure that every company can be marked as one of the "best places" to work if you set the criteria.

But, I digress.

My complaint today is this:  why is it that stylists won't style your hair the way you wear it?  I mean, it's not like they can't.  It's that they choose to style your hair differently.

I usually notice this especially when my husband or dad get their hair (or hairs- throwing that in there for the Germans.  Let's face it:  it is correct) cut.  The hair(s) just don't look right.

I've got long hair and a part down the side.  So, why does the stylist need to part my hair on the other side?

Do you think they just get confused in the mirror vs. looking at you in the face?

Or do they really have their own agenda?

One may never know.