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Shave vs. Shampoo: A hairy situation |
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Written by quolo
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 |
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The path to true wisdom lies in mastering the simple things. I think Sun Tzu said that. They did a lot of Opium, which is my drug of choice - not only are the flowers pretty, but they actually had to invent special blocks to hold your head up for opium addicts, and that's way more chill than snorting sweet&low through a $20 and running around like a triple crown headless chicken. But I'm not talking about opium...perhaps I should be...but about hair. My hair, or the lack of it. It's fucking relentless, you know. It keeps growing, and fast. Whoever in this world is so impressed by the divine creation of man and all of that need only take a quick look at how the hair parasites take full control of their hosts for lifetime after lifetime, where they may conclude there is plenty of room for improvement. Even Asians fight hair growth. It's a pandemic. You can't just leave it alone, because then you'll get lice, and lice lead to itching, and itching is tiring. it comes down to shampooing and cleaning your mop or a continual effort to remove it nearl as fast as it tries to reassert itself. I spent a lot of misspent hours of my youth constantly wetting and cleaning and drying and organizing thousands of irreppressable hairs until I finally decided I'd had enough, and out came the Oster. Hair is like an Amazon ant colony - nothing is safe and nothing will stop them. Nothing. I'm a shaver now. It's an enormous undertaking, an ordeal actually, involving a grenade of shaving cream, and constant rotation of invariably complex and overpriced razor combinations, wetting, dragging, bleeding, what have you. But a couple times a week, and I'm am free man for a handful of days. Next, I'm thinking about that laser procedure where they pretty much depillitate your whole body permanently. I hear a few treatments of that, and it's a hair free life for you. But it's so darn expensive, and what with the cost of pizza these days, I'm not sure I've got that much in my change jar. I will accept paypal donations, though, so feel free to give me a couple thou. |
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Money...what is it good for? |
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Written by quolo
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 |
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My friend Baer once told me that making money was a good enough reason to do some stuff. Baer was out of a job for like 3 years and spent a year wandering around Europe not getting laid, so when he talks, I tend to listen. But, on this occasion, I think that's a dangerous path to go down. Okay, so you are going to earn some money. Money has it's uses - for instance, for a little more money, I can have the Dominican lady who I pay to do my laundry actually pick it up and deliver it. Clean laundry is important - if you don't change your underwear every three days or so, you might need to go to the doctor, and until doctors deliver themselves, I'll take a pass. So perhaps earning some money can create an aggregate situation of less effort...perhaps. I think that's a spiral of effort, though, as most of the more prescient uses of money are related not to convenience but to doing things. I once spent an entire month playing computer games...well, not really playing so much, but I'd start one and let the blizzard of bright, high color images hypnotize me into a 14 hour long trance, reducing my heart rate to 7 bpm till it convulsed me into a state somewhere between torpor and sleep. The net result, though, according to Wachovia, was a enviable budgetary month; something that may irk Mr. Greenspan but suits me just fine. So I eschew the concept of work for pay. I prefer to need less. |
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Now Here Are Some Products I Can Get Behind (Or Lounge On At Any Rate) |
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Written by vermicious
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Sunday, 30 April 2006 |
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http://blog.wired.com/lazygadgets/ |
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