Author: mjmadaio

Ever notice that when you come to a 4 way stop, people on the more “major” road seem to think they have right of way?

Why is it that, with all the technical advances that we’ve made as a society, the curly vending machine bracket still manages to gyp thousands of people out of their hard-earned snack money every day? You’d think someone would have come up with a better system a long, long time ago. (These miracle machines probably do exist, but I’ve yet to come across one.)

Speaking of which, I love the dilemma that exists when a bag of chips dangles precariously from one of those curly brackets, yet the buyer doesn’t really want that particular snack. You have to ask yourself — do I buy the snack I had my heart set on, or do I go for the value proposition of two snacks for one? Yes, these are the situations I choose to analyze.

Surely, if you’ve stumbled across this site, you must have wondered at some point what the heck a songoose is and why I chose it as my web address. Based on all we know about URLs, is songoose really a good choice? If nobody really knows what it means, how can I stand by it? On one hand, my name is relatively short and not all that complicated, but on the other, it does not relate to the topic at hand or come to mind easily when you think of this site. In reality, it is a mediocre choice, but I like it and I’m going to keep it anyway. (more…)