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S. Levin's avatar

"If one does not need further detail, why clutter the brain with it?" -- Ah yes, definitely.

It's everywhere that you need a permit for major plumbing.

Yes, the gecko is very cute

Doesn't Phila. clean the snow enough that kids can get back to school? How much did you get? The street (yours?) doesn't look so bad now.

April's avatar

Eight inches they say, six, depending on where you are. They try to clean the streets but the city is so full of tiny streets that it's really hard. We are back tomorrow. I'm going to my favorite with stickers!!! STICKER LADY IS BACK!!!

S. Levin's avatar

We got 12-13 here in NR, NY, but yes, our streets are wider.

Keith Korman's avatar

You never know, the Gecko might try to sell you car insurance.

Neural Foundry's avatar

Brilliant piece on second-order thinking. The plumbing story perfectly captures how we often treat symtoms instead of root causes, something I've noticed in my own work troubleshooting systems. The real insight tho is that sometimes solving what appears to be the problem accidentally fixes the actual one, kind of like debugging code where fixing one thing mysteriously resolves three others.