When a “blast of polar air” descends from the Arctic Circle, what takes its place? Balmy, humid Carribean air? Is Santa Claus so lazy that the warm weather has to go to him and not the other way around?

Where does our warm weather go for winter vacation?

I think I may have found the solution today for the problem of global warming.

It’s cats. Yep, cats.

You see, cats are all too happy to soak up solar radiation. In fact, they seem built for the purpose. If you’ve got a sunbeam anywhere around, a cat is likely to be headed for it, if one’s not in it already. By deploying one snoozing cat per sunbeam, solar radiation reaching the earth would plummet, resulting in cooler temperatures. One could say purrfect weather, even.

The bottom line is that we need more cats if we’re ever going to save the earth. Is it any wonder that temperatures have risen in step with efforts to control the cat population?

Its been a year since Bellsouth (er, SBC. Er, AT&T) and other phone companies got out of the payphone business, ripping their phones off walls and telephone poles. Its been even longer since telephone booths were ubiquitous. I recall the funny scene in Superman when Clark Kent races to the nearest payphone only to find it had no booth!

Nowadays people carry their phones with them. Geeks like me work in cubicles where every conversation is shared amongst coworkers. If you want to make a private call, you often have to take it outside. On days like this when its 25 degrees outside, that’s not very convenient.

I think for these reasons the phone booth might make a comeback. Put a few near your cube farm and not only will you make the caller happy, you’ll make all his or her coworkers happy, too, since they won’t have to be privy to the conversation. I’ve used the booths at bars such as the Carolina Ale House and 42nd Street Oyster Bar. They make it much easier to hear the call and keep the call from disturbing others.

Do any companies currently make phone booths?

We spend half our lives trying to tame our emotions and the other half trying to free them.

When sizing up what it costs to add solar panels to your house, someone will inevitably say “it’ll take 20 years before you’ll get your money out of it.”

That may be true, but what do you have to show for twenty years of electric bills?

Why do we naturally look for divisions in people? We all have a lot more in common than we sometimes care to admit.

So, if cats urinate in litter boxes, and cat urine contains ammonia, why don’t litter boxes keep themselves clean?

Would you like to live in a world where everyone agreed completely with you? What if there were no competing thoughts or ideas? What if everyone saw everything the same way?

Is it bad form to start singing along with someone’s ringtone if they leave their phone ringing on their desk?