Author: aichjay
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Think #10
Nano-hydroxyapatite toothpaste This is relatively new in the US, although the nano-hydroxyapatite (nHa) molecule was patented by scientists at NASA in 1972. A Japanese trading company owner looking for business ideas in 1974 came across a list of available NASA patents and was fascinated by nHa. He asked one of his company’s original investors, who…
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Think #9
Vine In the Golden Ages of social media (which is what I like to call 2014-2016 because Instagram didn’t have reels, Twitter was still called Twitter and wasn’t overly political or ransacked by bots, and Snapchat was actually fun to use), a “video hosting service” and app called Vine featured a library of looping 6-second…
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Think #8
Exfoliation Kind of a violent sounding word for the simple act of getting rid of dead skin cells. That’s not to say exfoliation doesn’t have intricacies, because it does- but a la Chef Gusteau in Ratatouille, “Anyone can [exfoliate].” That begs the question, “Why do I need to exfoliate?” Well, you don’t. Your epidermis sloughs…
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5 things I learned in 2024
Growing up doesn’t have to mean growing apart, but sometimes growing apart needs to happen to grow up. Don’t take free saltines for granted. A nonspecific sense of unease that doesn’t go away after a reasonable adjustment period probably means you’re unhappy. People you think you know extremely well will surprise you, in good and…
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Think #7
Hungry Hungry Hippos Hasbro did not miss with this. The game is simple; there are only two things players need to do. One is pressing a button to get the marbles onto the board, aka the hippo pond. The second is pushing the lever on your hippo to open its mouth so it can eat…
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Think #6
Salt and pepper shakers The other day, I was sitting at the dinner table eating mac and cheese (unfortunately, not the blond TikTok girl’s recipe) when I noticed the salt and pepper shakers. I’d always known that each shaker had a different amount of holes, but I wasn’t sure if everyone puts salt in the…
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Think #5
Grandparents Can have a wealth of knowledge and life experience that’s interesting to hear about. And they usually have silly stories about your parents, which help with developing an understanding of parents as normal people with flaws instead of the ones with all the answers. Old age can be lonely. Grandparents usually just want a…
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Think #4
People inserting themselves into conversations Extremely irritating, especially if you don’t have anything helpful or positive to add. I am not Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs, and you are not Kanye. Unless the people having the conversation are about to do something illegal, or something that will endanger themselves or others, just shut up.…
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Think #3
Bluesky Ever since Barrel-chested Barnacle bought Twitter, users have noted an increase in the amount of right-leaning content they see. Results of the recent presidential election have brought even more right-wing tweets, and trolls, to many people’s feeds. To avoid these posts, a large number of left-leaning people are leaving Twitter and migrating to Bluesky.…
