World's Worst Waiter

Sounds like a great night out. From Pricenomics:

He had busy hands, too.

Of course not! Oh, it was just his madcap charm, as another patron notes. Why, he kissed everyone.

He sounds like a horrible person. It sounds as if people tolerated it to show how they understood the rules of the place - unlike outsiders or first-timers, who'd be appalled and surprised. Oh, not you! Why, Edsel's been yelling at me for years. We go way back.

See also, Carnegie Deli. They're notoriously cranky. This is supposed to be part of the charm and experience. Eh.

URBANISM In the future, everyone will live in 100-square-foot apartments.

There's a selling point.

WHARGARBLE Let's check on our favorite gibberish robot, putting out pages to game the search engines. I have no idea how this is supposed to work to the author's advantage; the pages all redirect to a standard Blogger template, with no links or ads. Anyway, today's subject is Jordan Minnesota Newspaper.

Whoa! Tell me more.

Wise words. Take heed.

YOU THERE Buzzfeed, coasting again:

I would submit that it is unlikely that the person in question destroyed anyone's childhood, let alone utterly destroyed it, but even if such a thing were possible, the idea that one's childhood could be utterly destroyed 33 times suggests that childhood is capable of almost limitless regeneration.

So that's what we were doing when discussing how stupid she looked with her tongue hanging out. That was a complex narrative. A complex ongoing narrative, for that matter. Debate was sparked, too. Says another prof:

Thanks for the tip, then.

SPRING CLEANING Don't think of it as "decluttering." It's not enough to start throwing stuff away. You need to have a complex narrative. From Salon: