I’m getting into the habit of writing something down every day just to force myself into doing so. Writing is a fickle thing. You can’t just wait for the muse to come, as I’ve been so wont to do in the past. You have to grab the muse by its horns and steer it like a bull in the direction of your choice. This is what writing for more than sport is about. There are no ifs, ands, or buts. At some point you must simply sit down and write.
Author: Sushi
Anagrams
I used to complain that my name never made any interesting anagrams. Everyone else I know would note that their name anagrammed to something exciting, or at least something that resembled a word, when shuffling the letters around. Not me.
Then some friends in a chat room introduced me to this anagram generator tonight. It actually forces a hilarious anagram out of the letters given. I learned, for example, that my first and last name are now HI-JACKED RUINS. My domain name is I TWISTS HUMERUS. The famous opening line “It was a dark and stormy night” is STINKARD AS TOADYING WARMTH.
Actually, that line is accurate. I’ll have to keep that one in mind.
National Popcorn Popping Month
The beginning of a new month turns many new leaves, including many Awareness months. Among the more interesting ones is National Popcorn Popping Month. Not National Popcorn Month, which would make more sense, but National Popcorn Popping Month. You can pop corn in the microwave, over a fire, and in a popcorn maker. Any other ways I missed that you can use to celebrate?
Should you walk or take the bus?
I do not have a car, and I live in a city that doesn’t have a wonderful public transportation system. Every morning I walk to the bus stop at end of my road, where the bus picks me up and transports me to the train station, turning a twenty-minute walk into a five-minute ride. Because my train stop is at the end of a line, the train sits for a given period of time before leaving for its next destination. This waiting is the longest part of my commute.
This morning one of my roommates offered me a ride to the station, as she was early to a meeting. I took her up on the offer, in part because the temperature dropped at least ten degrees in the past two days and in part because I was wearing heels. Despite leaving the house five minutes earlier than usual, I still arrived my end destination at the same time as usual, all because of the train’s dilly-dallying.
This brings up a question: when is it better to just walk? This chart provides one answer that based on my experience is reasonably accurate, assuming that the average person walks a fifteen- to twenty-minute mile. Other factors aren’t included and can’t be included in an objective chart, such as the kind of shoes you’re wearing or the surface you’re walking on. According to the chart I may be better off leaving the house a few minutes earlier in the morning and walking (at least I’d get some exercise); however, my current walk to the train station is hilly and without sidewalks in some parts, not a path for the ill-shoed or for someone wearing heels. That’s some foot pain I can do without.
Too bad the chart doesn’t take train dilly-dallying into account.
Old essays and Beatles
There is a report on the Guardian that one of Paul McCartney’s old essays was found. In itself, this is just something a hardcore McCartney fan would bid on at eBay. When historians examine the handwriting, compare the B’s in his essay to the B’s in the band’s drum skin, and release the news to the media, the whole world notices and begins examining handwriting a little more carefully.