A few more random questions (plus some answers)

  • Why do wasps exist? They don’t gather pollen or make honey, they just sting and do gross things like lay eggs in spiders so their young can eat their way out.
  • Why is it so easy for me to slip into passive voice when writing? You’d think by now I’d have learned but I’m only a bit better than I used to be.
  • Would it be more or less depressing to know we are the only intelligent species in the universe? On the plus side, no risk of alien invasion. On the negative side, humans are generally terrible people.
  • What will the internet look like in a hundred years? When you think back to cars a hundred years ago and compare them to today, all the fundamentals are still there, we’ve just improved on the core design. Will the internet still consist of people obsessively checking Facebook but doing so with implants instead of smartphones?
  • Shower or bath? (This one is easy: bath. Warm and relaxing and for extra fun you can add bubbles or Epsom salts or something crazy like that. Showers are just go in, clean, get out.)
  • Why is the four-day work week not a thing yet? Seriously, we don’t need five days. It sucks. I can be productive with more free time–let me show you!
  • Could you write a decent novel that consists solely of lists? Something to consider for NaNoWriMo 2016 (ho ho).
  • Why not crop squares?

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