I don't get why employers still ask applicants what their weaknesses are, since applicants always lie when asked this question.
Employers claim it gives them insight into how an employee's mind works, but asking about a their weaknesses just makes you sound like a cheesy supervillain out to defeat the heroic applicant who lacks the "plenty of money" super power.
If you need a job then keep telling interviewers your weaknesses are you can't bring yourself to take vacations and you're a perfectionist, but as this Mr. Lovenstein comic shows only say you have no weaknesses if you're bulletproof.
Having just welcomed my first child I am now in the process of figuring out how to live my TV and music lovin' life with a newborn baby around, a baby that is a mere five days old yet somehow knows our voices well.
My exhausted wife needs sleep and so does our little baby boy, and yet if he hears our voices he wakes up and starts crying, wanting his parents to hold him once again.
While looking for a method of communicating non-verbally we came across this super badass chart created by How To Be A Dad that taught us military hand signals we can use while our little man is sleeping.
We've already used the "Oh god it smells awful!" and "I will throat punch you!" ones a lot...
GoPro cameras totally changed the POV game because they're ultra light, ultra portable and ultra durable yet still deliver hi-def footage and sound, making them the ultimate way to shoot POV footage no matter how extreme the sport.
To illustrate how durable these mini-cams really are let's take a look at a GoPro owned by Erik Storm, owner and lead guide of Kilauea EcoGuides in Hawaii.
Erik took his GoPro with him everywhere he went until about 16 months ago when he set it in a crack to film lava flows- and the lava engulfed the camera:
“I was telling a story when the molten lava completely engulfed my GoPro (with housing on) and it caught on fire,” Storm tells PetaPixel. “I used a geology rock hammer to pull it out of the lava and thought it was a total loss.
After getting back home, Storm hammered the cooled rock off the GoPro housing. He suddenly noticed that the Wi-Fi light on the camera within was still blinking.
When he pulled the SD card out of the camera, he found that the footage was still intact. The last video on it shows the camera getting engulfed by lava and flames bursting into view.
“The camera even still worked although not a well as it did before,” Storm says. “Truly amazing it survived!”
Phantom limb pain is one of those mysterious sensational phenomena that seems impossible unless you've experienced the feeling firsthand, and it's something that people still try to dispute to this day.
But ask most amputees about phantom limb pain and they'll tell you- it's real and it's a really weird feeling that keeps doctors guessing about its origin and purpose.
And as weird as phantom limb pain seems today imagine how it was perceived when a Civil War doctor named Silas Weir Mitchell proved his patients were feeling pain in limbs that had already been amputated:
One of these surgeons, Silas Weir Mitchell, was drawn to cases of nerve injury that his colleagues rejected as impossible to treat. When his specialty ward in Philadelphia filled up, the Army Medical Department created a dedicated hospital for nervous disease. Soldiers flocked to the Turner’s Lane Hospital, seeking relief from pain that persisted after their wounds had healed. Mitchell described one man so “nervous and hysterical” from nerve damage that his family “supposed him to be partially insane.”
“The Case of George Dedlow” was based on Mitchell’s experience at Turner’s Lane. It reflected the testimony of countless amputee soldiers who all described the same sensation, the feeling that a missing arm or leg was still there, sometimes innocuous but sometimes agonizing. After publishing the Dedlow story anonymously, Mitchell turned his clinical material into articles for medical journals and books, including the influential Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences in 1872. He built his career as “the father of modern American neurology” on the ghostly pain that lingered in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Mitchell did not discover the phenomenon that he named “phantom limb”—in previous centuries, surgeons regarded it as “worthy of wonder… almost incredible.” Then, as now, doctors would often ignore patients whose complaints had no apparent physical cause. How could there be violent cramping in a leg that did not exist? They were trained to look for objective evidence, and when no evidence turned up, they began to suspect duplicity. “Malingering,” the feigning of illness to avoid military service, was a bugaboo of Mitchell’s, but he believed that most patients at Turner’s Lane were not faking. Yet the possibility of “pain without lesion” challenged the basic premises of scientific medicine at the time.
San Francisco and New York are two of the most popular (and populous) cities in the U.S., and most people who live in rural areas think SF and NYC have a lot in common simply because they're big cities.
These annotated illustrations show us that people who live in SF are more polite by keeping their hatred to themselves, spend less money on clothing and all have tech jobs. Plus San Fran has a lot more skunks...
Tattooing a lover's name on your body is always a bad decision, because relationships far too often end badly, and yet people continue to voluntarily go under the gun to get this most regrettable of all tattoos.
Luckily all kinds of medical centers offer laser tattoo removal services these days, but these services can cost thousands of dollars so most people just have a tattoo artist cover up love's bad name with some new ink.
Some choose to use clever jokes or cartoon characters, while others are happy to simply scribble out the name to emphasize what a mistake they made by hooking up with their ex in the first place.
Are you or someone you know a Ranch-oholic? I'm not talking about someone who's addicted to life on a ranch, I'm talking about those people who can't seem to get enough Ranch dressing, adding it to virtually every meal.
These dressing guzzlers don't like the taste of food that isn't drenched in Ranch dressing, and they will complain every time they're faced with a meal devoid of Ranch, claiming plain food is for the birds.
If you're playing host to one or more Ranch-oholics this holiday season you're gonna need to pick up one of these new Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mini-kegs, so the Ranch can flow like thick, white wine.
The Hidden Valley Ranch mini-keg holds five liters of original Ranch, so there's plenty to go around, but it will set you back $50 so you may be better off buying some box wine so you can drown out the sound of their complaining.
People who have a fear of flying like to tie one on before getting on a plane, then they tie a few more on during the flight and stay drunk enough to ignore the fact they're soaring through the air in a giant metal tube.
But once the booze starts coursing through your veins it can be hard to remember you're flying with a bunch of people who don't want to be stuck on a plane with a sloppy drunk.
Ill-mannered drunks won't give a crap about the other passengers, but well-mannered people who need a few drinks to get through a flight will wonder- how drunk is too drunk on a plane?
Emily Post's great-great granddaughter Lizzie Post, creator of The Awesome Etiquette Podcast, has this to say about drinking on a plane:
“You absolutely can [drink]! I know of a number of people who can’t get through flights without being personally wasted. This is a thing for people. When it comes to the etiquette of it, no matter your fear of flying, it’s good to be aware of the people around you. Anytime alcohol is involved it’s really important to know your limits and pay attention to them. In the air, especially, you’re very close to someone…who can’t get away from you. And they have very limited options if you over-drink.
You have limited options if you get hammered on a flight, or get sick. How many times have you heard a friend who’s really drunk say, “I just need to lie down.” You can’t do that on a plane. You’re stuck in a seat; you don’t have the creature comforts of home. If you do happen to vomit, it’s really unpleasant for the people around you; it’s a really tough thing. Know your limits; know what you need. If there are other tactics you can use to calm yourself down, seek them out; alcohol can be a fickle friend.”
Very few people actually think spiders have cute faces, and even fewer will admit they do because they know people will give them trouble and act like they're crazy for thinking something so creepy is cute.
But you don't have to be crazy to think Lucas the spider is cute because animator Joshua Slice designed Lucas with maximum cuteness in mind, and then Joshua sealed the deal by having his nephew Lucas voice the little scamp.
Jeff Goldblum rates a solid "10" in my book, and whether he's turning into a human-fly hybrid, proving Earth Girls Are Easy or talkin' 'bout how "Life, uh, finds a way" Jeff Goldblum makes a movie better just by being in it.
It's clear that I'm a fan of his work, but how does Jeff Goldblum feel about the characters portrayed by Jeff Goldblum? And what does he think about people tattooing those characters on their skin?
GQ asked Jeff Goldblum to critique real tattoos based on the characters he has portrayed, rating them from one Goldblum to ten Goldblums, and in the process we learn how much Jeff appreciates seeing body art featuring his face.
Tech gadget mania has turned Apple fans into such loyal customers the mere sighting of the Apple logo causes them to drop everything they're doing to stand in line, making them an easy target for pranksters.
Improv Everywhere decided to mess with Apple customers by telling them a pop up Apple store was opening in Manhattan to temporarily replace the iconic glass Apple store closed for renovations until 2018.
So they slapped an Apple logo on Manhattan's 6-train glass elevator at 23rd street, placed a line of 50 actors outside, fake Apple store employees inside and told people who came by they only had enough iPhone X's in stock for the people in line.
Naturally this made some Apple fans who passed by want to stand in line too...
Pizzerias are the first eateries I look for while on vacation, because any American city that doesn't have a decent pizza shop simply isn't worth visiting, let alone mentioning.
Thankfully just about every major city in America contains a decent pizza joint or two, so the vacationing can continue!
Roberta's in Brooklyn is literally a hole in the wall joint that serves up some super delicious Neapolitan-style pizza pies cooked in a wood oven:
Start with the mighty Speckenwolf (a dreamy concoction of mushrooms, house-made mozzarella, and marvelously salty slices of speck) and the seasonal Bee Sting (airy, just-crisp-enough crust piled with mozzarella, thin slices of soppressata, tomato sauce, chili flakes, and honey).
If you're on the other side of the country then you've gotta pay a visit to East Hollywood's DeSano Pizza Bakery, where the pizzas are cooked in a wood oven and the ingredients are imported straight from Italy:
The tomato sauce shines here; it’s always made from San Marzano tomatoes, meaning that the pizza at DeSano can be classified as true Neapolitan pizza -- just ask the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana. Throw draft beer and authentic Italian gelato in the mix, and it's easy to see why a night at DeSano is a night well-spent.
And slightly to the right of the middle of America is where Chicago can be found, a city known for its deliciously thick deep dish pizzas, and according to most Pequod's Pizza serves up the best pizza in Chi-Town:
Famous for its caramelized crust -- a rich ring of blackened mozzarella that encircles these Chicago cast-iron deep-dish delicacies -- this neighborhood hang sports a more authentic vibe than most of the deep-dish establishments that pull in Downtown tourists. These glorious pizza bombs rock a flaky, almost buttery crust, and once they’re loaded with sausage and/or pepperoni, you'll need a team of eaters to make a run at it.
Fashionable folks looking for a fresh new style have taken to wearing food-inspired clothing, which makes them look so delicious even supermodels want to gobble them up.
But no foodie fashion has ever made the wearer look more delectable than these strange pants sold by Rakuten Japan- which make your legs look like two chicken drumsticks.
These fried chicken pants were spotted online by Twitter user k_kazu_magi, who said they make you look like something KFC would serve up.
This wasn't exactly true until another Twitter user posted these Photoshopped pics of the pants fried golden brown to complete the illusion.
Now when somebody says you have chicken legs you can take it as a compliment!
Driving over speed bumps at low speed won't harm your vehicle, but drive over them too fast and those bumps can wreak havoc on your car, especially if you drive over a bunch of them in a row.
But have you ever wondered how many speed bumps it would take to destroy a cement truck, sports car or Jeep?
You probably haven't paid it much mind, but once you've watched these animated simulation videos posted by DestructionNation you'll start to wonder about the speed bump effect wherever you go.
As a new father I'm sure I'll be searching online for tips and fatherly advice when I have questions, but most of all I'll be consulting the video series How To Dad because the dad in the vids really has his head together.
In this episode the How To Dad dad answered a question sure to come up when my son has reached toddlerhood- How do you get a toddler with lots of energy to fall asleep in the car?
