It’s nothing. It’s an abstract idea with no relation to anything, ever, and no inherent meaning of its own. In a meeting someone would say “OK then I need X and Z by Tuesday.” Maybe X and Z were the Paterson Report and the Svetlana File, or maybe they were a cup of coffee and [...]

So I turned 18 and my father took me aside and said And now you will go to college, and you will earn a degree. And the degree will grant you a certain station in the workforce, and an according wage. The wage you earn will have no bearing on your worth as a human [...]

is bloggers learning about their bodies. You guys this is what happens when a person touches me in person. This is how I act when particular beverages go into me through my mouth. Certain things I did last night caused me to feel ways X and Y this morning. (I will provide more updates later.) [...]

He wasn’t bad. We liked him. Mostly we only knew him from online, but still. We liked what he wrote. Not all of it. Sometimes you could tell he dashed something off, or wasn’t really thinking about what he was writing. A few of his ideas were like, uh, OK? But some of what he [...]

It turned out that every blog post, ever, in the entire history of the internet, was just a variation on “Mommy didn’t hug me enough.” We looked at the report and were like Huh. Wait, really? But then we started thinking about it, going through old posts, commenting back and forth about it on Metafilter, [...]