Category: Ruminations

Behold the Starbucks Coffee Cup. Certainly one of the most used and most widely recognized objects in North America. Certainly you would think if anything about this cup could be optimized and improved upon, it would have already be done. For example, notice the convenient half-height grip which prevents you from burning your hand. It’s […]

I’m having a hard time deciding if this is ingenuous, ridiculous, or just amusing. Apparently some people are planning to strap air monitoring backpacks onto pigeons in San Jose California, and then turn them loose in the skies to help monitor the air pollution. Okay, I’ve decided. This is ridiculous. It doesn’t pass the “sanity” […]