Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

It’s hard to believe that, in this day and age, there’s a large movement of people who believe the earth is flat. That the government and scientists are lying about something as fundamental to the understanding of physics as the concept of gravity, but I mean…here we are. It’s somewhat comforting, then, to realize that...

Listen, I could never work in tech support. First and foremost, I could not do this because I am not that computer savvy, but second, I couldn’t help people all day who just won’t help themselves. I did that for years answering phones in a call center, and I shall never get back all of...

Maybe you’ve never spent much time thinking about whether or not Cap’n Crunch or the Quaker Oats guy has an actual name, or a life before they found their faces on the front of a breakfast product, but listen…I bet you are now. And here I am, happy to help you sate your newfound curiosity...

Here’s something I never thought I might type in an article one day: I’m about to share some good news out of Florida! Florida gets a bad rap (mostly deserved), but listen – they have some amazing animal life. I saw manatees, some really cool birds, and also dragons at Harry Potter World. All joking aside,...

If there’s one thing I suspect is true about scientists who work in the field, it’s that there is probably always something unexpected that crops up. Okay, there’s another thing: they probably step in a lot more sh*t than they figured they would when they went t school. And y’all – these scientists, studying penguins...

As a kid, I loved to read. I devoured The Babysitters’ Club, Nancy Drew, A Wrinkle in Time, Judy Blume – anything I could get my hands on, really. The first time I ended up with a Choose Your Own Adventure book, my mind was blown. I can’t say for sure if or how much those books informed my...

When you think about snakes, you probably don’t get any warm and fuzzy feelings. Even if you’re someone who likes the slithery critters, they just don’t bring to mind the same snuggly warmth that say, dogs and cats and bunnies and other furry mammals inspire. It turns out, that basing feelings on appearances – even...

Everyone is looking for new and fun ways to entertain themselves these days, and bonus points if it’s something you can do with no one else around. Well, this guy found something fun, different, cool, and easy to do while social distancing…unfortunately, his choice to break into the Australian Museum was also illegal. But let’s...

For some of us, it doesn’t seem like that long ago that we saw The Goonies for the first time. Us 80s kids related – no one watched us after school (or before school), we went on adventures with our friends, we almost died on the regular and our parents really didn’t notice unless we didn’t show...

Working in any department where you deal with people is a harrowing experience. When it comes to technology and technology repair, you also have to add in the fact that people’s experience and expertise levels are all over the board. That strange mix of humanity that you find in pretty much any industry can keep...

Being a good coworker can mean different things to different people, but being a bad coworker? Thats somehow seems to be easier to pinpoint and explain. We all know the worst people we’ve worked with over the years, and for me, some of them seemed pretty awful at the time. But now, reading about the...

If you’ve worked at all during your life, there’s a good chance you’ve had a not-so-great coworker in there a time or two. I’ve worked since I was 16 years old, and a couple definitely stand out (not in a good way). That said, there’s bad and then there’s these 17 people, who just take...

You may have heard that we’re in the middle of a mass extinction event that’s going to see the forever demise of thousands of species all over the world. It’s depressing, when you think about it, but between pesticides, deforestation, pollution, and climate change, it can seem inevitable that more and more animals are not...

Tumblr is a great place for totally random, but totally amazing takes that you never knew you wanted or needed in your life…but you definitely did. There are threads on literally everything under the sun, and I promise you will feel like such a deep thinker when you’re done. It all began when someone mused...

Everyone is going to have to adjust going forward from this nightmare of a spring – restaurants, patrons, gyms, and every other kind of business under the sun. We’re going to have to figure out a way of doing the things we love while also keeping the people we love safe. No one knows what...