mental_floss musings
Here’s a round-up of my recent contributions to mental_floss.
• A Job For Which I Think I’m Qualified: Naming Your Kids. Or At Least Your Pets.
• How To Be More Productive, Feel Calmer, And Learn To Paint Happy Little Trees
• The All-Time Best-Selling Books
• Check My Mail: You’ll never guess what was inside this big envelope.
• How Much They Would Make If They Weren’t Make Believe: Ever wonder how much your favorite TV characters earn in fake life? No?
• Stuck In My Head: The Theme From Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
• Name That School: Who or what would you name a school after, if you were asked to do that sort of thing?
• Calculating Your Dog’s Age/Intensive Market Research: What I learned about a dog’s age, and what Purina learned about me.
• Before We Let The Games Begin: Learn a few things about Sochi, Russia, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
• Airlines That Never Reached Their Cruising Altitude
• The Blazers and The Juice: And finally, I’m reading The Breaks of the Game, David Halberstam’s book about the 1979-80 Portland Trail Blazers. The preface is all about O.J., which was fun.