John Borwick’s blog

I can tell that it’s winter because everyone at work is getting shocked now whenever they touch anything metal. I mean, can’t we either a) buy a humidifier or something so we can’t build up so much static electricity or b) create some device I can strap on my arm to regulate my static charge vs. ground?

Probably not. So, the new perk of my office is watching each person get shocked when they go to the bathroom. I don’t delight in other people’s pain; I appreciate the incremental humor of each new person having to get shocked every day for the entire season. Including myself.

Google figured out some tautologies about links that made their business, like “people link to interesting things.”

Well, I think that (almost) all links are nouns. No one says “go run this.” Admittedly, most are noun clauses, like the dreaded “click here” link. But still. Let’s create a giant noun catalog or something!