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"No no– Heaven is that way!" |
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Suggestions on a better way to design highrise communities for the very old. |
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10 Symptoms of Employee Burnout |
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Ten ways to know if you're becoming a victim of "burnout" on your job. |
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Advice First, Then Money |
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A commonsense approach to homelessness- or, how to live cheaply in a 21st Century city. |
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Automobile Horns and the Need for Clearer Communication |
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A way to sweeten- or at least articulate- that most irritating of urban noises. |
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Beggar's Brass Bowl |
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A proposal to register beggars and encourage them to be "street concierges" in exchange for alms and other generosity. |
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Boredom: A Safe, Legal Way to Achieve Altered States of Consciousness |
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My revenge for all the tedious meetings I've had to endure in my academic and professional life. |
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Dr. Newmeyer's Method of "Quick Psychotherapy" |
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"Why can't everyone be as even-tempered as me? How can I help people to snap out of a bad temper?" |
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Eulogical Workplace |
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Signs that indicate a work or family environment is more than merely healthy. |
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The Four Levels of F.W.O.O.O.M.P. |
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If we delay in lighting a gas stove, the result is a "fwooomp", whose violence depends entirely upon the length of the delay... |
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Fragment of a Letter to Philip Fleesum, Esq. |
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The combination of an arrogant lawyer, a letter-of-the-law bureaucrat, and a missing "n" in "annum". |
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How Much Noise Do We Live With? |
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Findings in various parts of San Francisco. |
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How Often Do You Want to Drive That Far? |
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If it takes you X minutes to get to your country getaway, just how often will you be willing to get away? |
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The Hundred Billion Dollar Understanding |
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AOL Time Warner and the Pentagon surely can burn through huge sums of money. Here's how to visualize just how huge. |
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In a Hurry? Walk! |
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Sometimes public transport is literally slower than a walk... |
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Lighting a Candle How One Citizen Copes with Litter |
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A call to commit a few minutes' work each week picking up litter, and thereby launch a "virtuous circle". |
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On Dozing Off at Conferences |
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Answers the question, "How quickly am I going to doze off after lunch?" |
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On Neighborhood Cohesion |
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Ten ways to augment connectedness and community in your neighborhood. |
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Periodic Table of the Greatest Culinary Elements |
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A parochial view of the basic food elements which form the basis of gustatory pleasure. |
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Road Grace |
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A brief commentary on the millions of drivers practicing kindness and courtesy on the roads of California. |
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Salesman's Business Card |
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What to do with his card while you idly listen to his pitch. |
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Sensing the Wine Cellar Disaster |
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If you're the cellar-master of a big Northern California winery, how do you assess the impact of a big earthquake? Let your five senses do the job... |
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Seven Paths of Upward Social Mobility |
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Inspired by a drive from South Chicago to Kenilworth, at the end of which I pondered, "if I had grown up there, how could I have come to belong here?" |
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Stand Over Your Man |
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How the wife of a powerful man should respond when she discovers he's cheating on her. |
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Stern-Men and Bow-Men |
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On East Coast rivers and lakes, boatmen propel their craft whilst facing backwards; on the West Coast, they face forwards. Here's why. |
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Ten Uses for a Walking Stick |
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A century ago, walking sticks were an integral part of the outfit of gentlemen. Here's why they should make a comeback for men who live in the countryside. |
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Tuscany's Seven Rules of the Good Life |
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A brief summary of how civilization is manifested in one corner of Europe. |
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Van Savings |
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Social-service programs are fond of buying vans to transport their clients; they should be aware of the concept of "negative savings". |
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Virtuous Circle |
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In some ways life is getting better and better, and that process is feeding upon itself. |
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What This Country Needs is a Good Five Dollar Cabernet |
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Farmer John's guide to getting your money's worth in the too-pricy world of wine by the glass. |
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Zeno at the Intersection |
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"After you, Alfonse" –– "No, no, after you, Gaston" –– carried to infinity. |
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