Out of The PIT

There was a box of left over donuts that were sitting in the kitchen at the office today. I normally am not a donut eater, but free donuts are hard to resist, and I was thinking of putting together a worthy Ig Nobel study to determine what donuts are eaten last so I opened the box. Inside, I was disappointed to find that one of the donuts was actually a flavour that I would have eaten, but the maple dip had attached itself to the top of the box. Eww. This of course was not very appetizing, but it did bring to light something that I have seen often enough in my lifetime: Donut boxes where all the flavour coating gets stuck to the top of the box. This happens often on hot summer days or when donuts are thicker than the box height. I wondered why nobody had ever tackled this problem. Probably because nobody thinks it is a problem. But seeing that it is lunch time, I gave it a minute of thought and came up with this idea: Curved box covers. There would be no need to change the bo...

The kitchen at my workplace has a drawer full of utensils. I should say "utensils" loosely as they are all knives. Not a single spoon or fork can be seen, but any manner of knife (cutting knife, butter knife, paring knife, etc.) is available but not a single spoon nor fork. This is an annoying fact when you are trying to eat soup. (Chunky or not.) Fortunately I keep my own stash of plastic utensils in my desk for just this type of scenario.

We're trying to rent out our place for the next year while MJNL is in London, but we have both been pretty lax about getting our property on the market. While I am here I'll post a link to Duolingo which I first heard about from a TED talk. There is also The Container which I would be interested in seeing, although it seems to be on a very short run.