Here’s a clever space-saving idea: a staircase with drawers embedded in the steps:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Of course, the drawers can pose a safety hazard: you’d better be the type of person who closes drawers — if not, you’d be setting yourself up for a nasty spill one night when you go downstairs, half-awake at o-dark-thirty.
In case you missed them, here are the latest articles from the tech blog I do with my buddy George, Global Nerdy:
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The photo above, titled The Difference of Love is getting a lot of discussion on Reddit.
My own feelings on the matter are best summed up by this musical number from the television series American Dad:
All the best business plans got started as scribbling on napkins…
Click the photo to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
According to the folks at Houghton Mifflin, every high school grad should be familiar with the words in the list below. I’m not surprised that I was unfamiliar with the word abstemious given its meaning, and moiety is now part of my vocabulary.
If you’re a Simpsons fan, the word chicanery should be familiar to you (“Oh, Mr. Homer…What has reduced you to such cheap chicanery?”). If you remember your Phil Hartman-era SNL, you might recall his use of the word jejune (“Compulsion” by Calvin Kleen). Monty Python fans will have run into a form of expurgate (the bookstore skit), lugubrious appears in both Lou Reed lyrics (The Original Wrapper) and an old Zippy the Pinhead comic strip and I recall the word sanguine being used in an 80’s-era X-Men comic.
Over at the tech blog I write, Global Nerdy, I’ve got these stories: