Rant from Planck's Constant Archives

Posted on May 27, 2011 11:01 PM

I believe that unless you specify in writing how to dispose of your organs after your death, it should be presumed that you intended for the hospital to distribute your organs, just as it is presumed you intended for the state to distribute your estate.

Read the Rest: Donating Organs Should be Presumed upon Your Death

Posted on May 11, 2011 11:41 PM

While this is an age old question of over or under and you may wonder, is there actually a right or wrong way? Yes, there is.

Read the Rest: The Right Way Toilet Paper Should Roll

Posted on May 10, 2011 10:36 PM

I tell my cashiers to give the coins first, counting them out in front of the customer, then to count out the bills, again in front of the customer counting out loud as they do so.

Read the Rest: The Right and Only Way to Hand Change to a Customer

Posted on March 4, 2010 09:40 PM

NJ may soon require police officers to check a box describing the type of distraction that led to an accident or summons. On the list: hair grooming, eating, changing the radio, reading, attending to a pet or using a fax machine.

Read the Rest: Driving While Distracted

Posted on February 4, 2010 03:34 PM

When the only item of clothing on your upper body is a levitating pink mesh cap at 52 degree tilt, you're a huge sack of existential douchebaggery

When the human species lived in caves there were very few rules of etiquette. You could let loose a flaming fart, sneeze directly into your cavemate's face, pick cooties out of your hair, or even extricate a large booger from your nose and pop it into your mouth; no one would complain.

Read the Rest: 13 Violations of Public Etiquette

Posted on August 20, 2008 09:11 PM

Here are 13 things that annoy me when I surf the Internet

Read the Rest: 13 Annoying Things On the Web

Posted on April 23, 2008 08:32 PM

Melissa Nelson, 25, a Racine, Wisconsin woman was fined $400 for sending a text message in a movie theater. She claims she received a text message concerning her 5-year-old daughter and that she quietly sent one text message back. Police say there's a lot more to the story. As I mentioned in my post Things...

Read the Rest: Text Messager During Movie gets $400 Fine

Posted on September 14, 2007 11:51 AM

When I was a child (in the 1950s) it was a treat to find pennies on the sidewalk, but it seems kids today don't bother stooping over to pick them up anymore.

Read the Rest: Time to get rid of the Penny

Posted on July 21, 2007 04:45 PM

I thought Nixon's idea of fighting a war on drugs which started the year before was futile and counter-productive and, after almost a trillion dollars spent, I still do.

Read the Rest: Drugs and the Never-ending War

Posted on March 2, 2007 02:47 AM

You're trying to read the in-flight magazine when the guy sitting next to you on the plane starts talking to you, won't shut up or stop yammering.

Read the Rest: How to shut somebody the F Up

Posted on November 2, 2006 12:55 AM

Actually there are more than 1300 hundred things that annoy me, so I will have to dole them out 13 at a time.
Here are 13 stupid things that annoy me:

Read the Rest: 13 Stupid, Annoying Things

Posted on April 26, 2006 08:22 PM

Things that tick me off (in no order of importance):
1) People who talk in movies really piss me off. Let's all admit it - it's usually someone with three syllables in her name like Shaniqwa. If you stare in her direction as a polite hint that she is an uncivilized animal she takes great offense.