#1817 Incognito ModeThey're really the worst tech support team. And their solutions are always the same. "This OS X update broke something." "LET'S INFILTRATE APPLE BY MORPHING APPLES!"
#1818 Rayleigh ScatteringIf you ask "why are leaves green?" the usual answer is "because they're full of chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is green," even though "why does chlorophyll scatter green light?" is a great question too.
#1819 Sweet 16Every year I make out my bracket at the season, and every year it's busted before the first game when I find out which teams are playing.
#1820 Security AdviceNever give your password or bank account number to anyone who doesn't have a blue check mark next to their name.
#1821 IncineratorMy trash can broke recently and I had to get rid of it. When I picked it up, I suffered a brief but harrowing existential crisis.
#1822 Existential Bug ReportsISSUE: If we wait long enough, the Earth will eventually be consumed by the Sun. WORKAROUND: None.
#1823 Hottest EditorsElon Musk finally blocked me from the internal Tesla repository because I wouldn't stop sending pull requests for my code supporting steering via vim keybindings.
#1824 Identification ChartBe careful—it's breeding season, and some of these can be *extremely* defensive of their nests.
#1825 7 ElevenReally, the only honest 24-hour stores are the ones in places like Arizona and Hawaii, and many of them are still wrong in certain years.
#1826 BirdwatchingNo, tell the park rangers to calm down, it's fine--I put a screen on the front. I just want to get the birds a little closer.
#1827 Survivorship BiasThey say you can't argue with results, but what kind of defeatist attitude is that? If you stick with it, you can argue with ANYTHING.
#1828 ISS Solar TransitI guess it's also the right setting for pictures of the Moon at night.
#1829 Geochronology'The mountains near here formed when the ... Newfoundland ... microplate collided with, uhh ... Labrador.' 'Ok, now you're definitely just naming dogs.' 'Wait, no, that's actually almost correct.'
#1830 ISS Solar Transit 2Most people don't realize it, but they actually launch a new space station every few weeks because this keeps happening.
#1831 Here to Help"We TOLD you it was hard." "Yeah, but now that I'VE tried, we KNOW it's hard."
#1832 Photo Library ManagementA good lifehack is to use messy and unstable systems to organize your photos. That way, every five years or so it becomes obsolete and/or collapses, and you have to open it up and pick only your favorite pictures to salvage.
#1833 Code Quality 3It's like a half-solved cryptogram where the solution is a piece of FORTH code written by someone who doesn't know FORTH.
#1834 Lunch OrderGO FOR LUNCH, REPEAT, GO FOR LUNCH.
#1835 Random ObsessionsI take the view that "open-faced sandwiches" are not sandwiches, but all other physical objects are.
#1836 OkeanosWHEN I WAS ON A BOAT I DROPPED MY PHONE CAN U LOOK FOR IT
#1837 Rental CarTechnically, both cars are haunted, but the murder ghosts can't stand listening to the broken GPS for more than a few minutes.
#1838 Machine LearningThe pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent.
#1839 Doctor VisitAccording to these blood tests, you're like 30% cereal.
#1840 Genetic Testing ResultsThat's very exciting! The bad news is that it's a risk factor for a lot of things.
#1841 Who?Gonna feel even dumber when I realize that all this time he's been talking into a bluetooth thingy and we're not actually friends.
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