I usually purchase a breakfast sandwich on the way into work/school for 2.11 plus tax and use that as my breakfast fortified with whatever I can find in work.  But lately Wawa’s been running a promotion where any breakfast sandwich and any sized coffee is 1.99, cheaper than the sandwich alone so I’ve taken to getting coffee.

Recently though, the coffee has given me terrible diarrhea and the following’s resulted:
Coworker: Every morning at about 8:00 Am you seem to go.
Me: Yeah.
Coworker: Do you have a high fiber breakfast or something?
Me: No, I’ve been getting free Wawa coffee, in fact better than free but Wawa coffee gives me terrible diarrhea.
Coworker: So why don’t you stop drinking it?
Me: Then I’d feel I wasted it.
Coworker: So why don’t you stop getting it then?
Me: But, it’s free.

I usually purchase a breakfast sandwich on the way into work/school for 2.11 plus tax and use that as my breakfast fortified with whatever I can find in work.  But lately Wawa’s been running a promotion where any breakfast sandwich and any sized coffee is 1.99, cheaper than the sandwich alone so I’ve taken to getting coffee.

Recently though, the coffee has given me terrible diarrhea and the following’s resulted:
Coworker: Every morning at about 8:00 Am you seem to go.
Me: Yeah.
Coworker: Do you have a high fiber breakfast or something?
Me: No, I’ve been getting free Wawa coffee, in fact better than free but Wawa coffee gives me terrible diarrhea.
Coworker: So why don’t you stop drinking it?
Me: Then I’d feel I wasted it.
Coworker: So why don’t you stop getting it then?
Me: But, it’s free.

I was walking into Lowes to get some stuff to make a new batch of atlatl darts when I spotted two severe-looking men in an old station wagon wearing all black as well as matching balaclavas parked out front frantically looking back and forth between the door and the surrounding parking lot.  The idea of two people holding up a Lowes crossed my mind but a Lowes has to be a damn hard thing to hold up due to its heavy reliance on credit and POs as well as its open layout, numerous places to hide and offerings for the ingenius victim to create some rather interesting countermeasures.  I thought of how to combine circular saw blades, a door frame and shock cords to deadly efficiency but my dreams of home improvement counter insurgency died when an old women dressed in pink carrying the ugliest collection of wallpaper imaginable walked out and made her way into the back seat of the car.  If that person had been my mother and I’d been seen with her, I’d camouflage myself and look around frantically too.

I was walking into Lowes to get some stuff to make a new batch of atlatl darts when I spotted two severe-looking men in an old station wagon wearing all black as well as matching balaclavas parked out front frantically looking back and forth between the door and the surrounding parking lot.  The idea of two people holding up a Lowes crossed my mind but a Lowes has to be a damn hard thing to hold up due to its heavy reliance on credit and POs as well as its open layout, numerous places to hide and offerings for the ingenius victim to create some rather interesting countermeasures.  I thought of how to combine circular saw blades, a door frame and shock cords to deadly efficiency but my dreams of home improvement counter insurgency died when an old women dressed in pink carrying the ugliest collection of wallpaper imaginable walked out and made her way into the back seat of the car.  If that person had been my mother and I’d been seen with her, I’d camouflage myself and look around frantically too.

(Demographics and Statistics Nerds Only)

As a protoactuary, I often talk with people on the train or where ever about things ranging form economics to demographics to environmental issues.  Matt Sundheim and I most notably have disagreed over the shape of the world in 2050.  I’ve always been called optimistic (I consider it realistic) concerning epic drops in violence, poverty, starvation and disease.  I try to cite data where possible and the Economist has done a survey of world health as experienced by humans summing up progress since the 1990s.

If humanity can come up with a way to curb environmental damage and reduce fall-out or possible manage failing states, the world is going to truly kick ass in 2050.  110-year life expectancy here we come.

(Demographics and Statistics Nerds Only)

As a protoactuary, I often talk with people on the train or where ever about things ranging form economics to demographics to environmental issues.  Matt Sundheim and I most notably have disagreed over the shape of the world in 2050.  I’ve always been called optimistic (I consider it realistic) concerning epic drops in violence, poverty, starvation and disease.  I try to cite data where possible and the Economist has done a survey of world health as experienced by humans summing up progress since the 1990s.

If humanity can come up with a way to curb environmental damage and reduce fall-out or possible manage failing states, the world is going to truly kick ass in 2050.  110-year life expectancy here we come.