Wait, what? Oh, right. Your pants lie to you. For years we males have been baffled by women's sizing systems. I mean, how someone can be a size negative one and still occupy three dimensional space makes as much sense as a left handed hammer. "Not us" we told ourselves. "Our pant sizes are just waist circumference in inches, by inseam in inches." As it turns out, that's...
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I recently showed the following to a friend of mine. Her reaction: "Jamba juice is real?" Apparently Jamba Juice has been made fun of so many times, some people assume it's just a joke. Like some other drink chains (be it coffee, smoothies, or whatever) the drinks are pretty pricey. They also got in some hot water over an allegedly ripped-off ad campaign that John Hodgman (@hodgman) of The...
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My friend Diana (@adamsconsulting) recently told me about the work of Lee Price. Lee's paintings, several of them self-portraits, are almost photorealistic depictions of the relationship some women have with food. As Diana said, "It’s hard to tell in these paintings if the women are eating because they are happy, sad, depressed, lonely or just hungry… nobody knows. I can relate to this a...
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