Things have been busy at work lately, with some tight deadlines leading to long hours. Fortunately, our project lead has been authorized to buy us dinner. He ordered in Rosati's and we sat around, managers and programmers and designers, new hires and old veterans, enjoying some pepperoni and mushrooms. Love for pizza really is something all of humanity holds in common.*
Reminiscing on this experience, I started to think of the democratic things that bind us together as humans. I mean, biologically speaking, we all have to eat. But beyond that, we all love eating something delicious. Left out in the cold, we'll die. But even in a climate-controlled apartment, we appreciate the warmth of another person by our side.
If the success of the book Everyone Poops tells us anything, it's that not only do all humans need to poop but a significant portion of us also finds poop hilarious.
What I'm trying to say is, Tom has been clamoring for an update to this blog because he wants some new crap to read online. Humbug to that, I told myself. Think bigger! Give a man poop on the internet and he wastes time at work for a day. Teach a man to put poop on the internet, and he never has to pay attention in a meeting again.
Tom (and anybody else who slogged through the previous paragraphs and got to this point), did you know you can post a little picture of a turd in Facebook comments**? Just type ":poop:" (without the quote marks of course), et voila, vous avez un merde!
* That's probably not exactly true but it's true enough if you only consider middle class midwestern American workers in technology fields, which I am willing to do if it makes my point.
** This seems to work only in comments (not in posts or captions) and only in a computer-based web browser (not on mobile). Then again, TVs used to be 10 inches by 10 inches by 2 feet deep and weigh 200 pounds. In other words, don't worry. The onward march of progress will surely surely remedy this sad limitation.
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