>> A timelapse video of man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours back in 1999, and an accompanying article about elevators, and the man’s life post entrapment, in the New Yorker. (via kottke)

He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he’d held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed.

>> How to avoid getting married for 40 years. “I’ve met plenty of The Ones, so many that my sister took to calling my boyfriends The Two, The Three, etc. Counting the last boyfriend, we left off at The Eight.”

>> The game theory explanation of why there aren’t any cute, interesting, single boys around. “Where have all the most appealing men gone? Married young, most of them—and sometimes to women whose most salient characteristic was not their beauty, or passion, or intellect, but their decisiveness.” (via 3qd)

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