Sponge in sink Jun 24, 2009
Somebody at work likes to leave their sponge in the kitchen sink, and it truly disgusts me.  Maybe it's because a sink typically isn't a very clean place to begin with.  Plus, the sponge keeps getting wet when people use the faucet, so it's a breeding ground for mold.  And then there's the fact that the sink is used for washing dirty things, which spreads the dirt throughout the sink.  It kind of defeats the purpose of washing dishes if you're using a dirty, moldy sponge. #health
Improper measurements (1) Jun 24, 2009
I get confused when the wrong method of measurement is used to quantify something, as in, "The human body is X liters."  Generally you expect measurements concerning the human body to be in weight or height, not volume.  The volume of a solid is hard to visualize, as is the weight of a liquid.  Such is the case with this news report about an overturned beer truck:  "Police say a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer overturned in Vermont and closed a highway for several hours."  How much is 40,000 lbs of beer?  I have no way of comparing that to something I know.  I understand a pint.  I understand fluid ounces.  But pounds?  I'm assuming either the police or the reporter simply read the number on the side of the truck that referred to how much weight it was carrying.  It could've been 40,000 lbs of metal or 40,000 lbs of water.  Either way, the truck couldn't carry more than 40,000 lbs of anything.  And yes, I realize that, knowing the density of beer is something close to water (~1 g/cm3), I can calculate that the volume of 40,000 lbs of beer is somewhere around 4800 gallons.  But I wouldn't have to do that calculation if, like every other liquid on earth, this beer was measured in volume. 

It's the same with ketchup.  A bottle of ketchup lists its weight in ounces, which again is odd because I would consider ketchup a liquid, not a solid.  And yes, that's ounces of weight, not fluid ounces, which further points out the ridiculousness of English units. #science
Punny names (7) Jun 24, 2009
Somewhat similar to my marriage name rules (Kelly Kelly, Julia Gulia), here are a few puntastic names: 
  1. My sister's last name is Barrow, and when trying to decide on a name for her first child, the most common suggestion from family members was Will Barrow.  Har har.
  2. Wendy works with a girl whose name is Julia Choi, and Julia married a guy whose last name was also Choi.  Her co-workers now call her Julia Choi-Choi.  But that's not all.  She recently had a child, and another co-worker's suggestion for a name was ... wait for it ... Buck Choi.
  3. I work with an Asian girl whose first name is Yin.  If she married this other Asian guy at work, her name would be Yin Yang.
#sociology
Glowing rectangles Jun 24, 2009
The Onion reports: 
90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any number of business-related tasks, while entertainment rectangles--larger and louder and often placed inside the home--allow Americans to enter a relaxing trance-like state after a long day of rectangle-gazing.

According to researchers, these rectangles help to notify citizens about which brand of domestic detergent to buy, what direction to drive their vehicles in, and how many more seconds a food item must remain inside its revolving radiation chamber before it can be hurriedly consumed.
I'm staring at a glowing rectangle this very second. #technology