The Lair

Why do some things seem so incongruous and strange on second thought? Or even the first glance.

There is at least one person I know who apparently does not like mayo on their pineapple. By the way, that phrase is responsible for helpless laughter and much innuendo in certain IM circles. To the food related version of that observation, I’d say: “you follower of a false eating standard, the mayo is irrelevant. It’s the pineapple that counts“. Still, someone finds that combination strange. I find it perfectly normal myself.

There is a whole website devoted to keeping people updated about your exact whereabouts. Twitter. You can even microblog on it or just answer the question… It’s all good. There are more startups devoted to online calendars and organizing parts and portions of my life than I have fingers on both hands. I also have a PDA, a choice of organizational software and I suppose even my cheapass hand-me-down phone can double up as a personal organizer of sorts if I wanted. But … I don’t use any of them. More useless accounts?

Is it wrong that my favourite enhancement from the shiny new Microsoft Office 2007 install is a set of new bundled fonts? In particular, Consolas. A specialized editor that I use does not like proportional fonts and I hated the other options I had available.

And yes, the choice of font matters.

But the prime piece of weirdness stems from an observation yesterday. A Spanish goth. Now, this may require a bit of explanation - but the general idea with goths is that they steer clear of sunlight and are generally pasty faced. How exactly does one accomplish this when one hails from Spain? Or even the tropics? I think there needs to be some extra credit for trying to vampirically keep out the tanning effects of the sun when you’re from a sunny country.