As I'm sure you've experienced yourself, maintaining something is often harder than achieving it. For example, I offer the following: exercising regularly or reaching a distance mark for your afternoon jogs or achieving a goal weight, which for 99% of America, is somewhere in their top 5 resolutions. 

Based on this principle, it is of no surprise that everyone rushes to accomplish their resolutions in the last few weeks or month, because think of the alternative: if I achieve it too early on in the year, I'll have to maintain it for 11 more months. Why on earth wouldn't you delay it so that you only have to suffer a month or two at the end and still end up feeling great about yourself for achieving something by December 31? Sure you could argue that the reward is greatest at the end and that should keep you motivated to maintain it, but for most people, it's pretty hard to see it that way when you're taking your first 5-mile run of the year and feeling nauseous after the first three.

This is why New Year's Resolutions are a joke. What we need are New Month's Resolutions that gradually build up to a mega-resolution at year's end. It's the same concept as breaking up a complex task into simpler parts. It just gets done with higher probability, not to mention the added incentive to not fail since if you fail this month, it only makes next month harder since you have more to catch up on. You screw up 3 months in a row, you feel 9 times as bad. You screw up once a year, you don't feel that bad. Failure compounds on your self-esteem.

That's why from now on, I will not be making New Year's Resolutions unless they are things you can't break up like one-time events or achievements or moments. I will be revising my current NYR's and making new ones for the month of February. Then March. Then April. Stay tuned...

Look up any medical studies and you will see that females need to go to the bathroom far more frequently than males. This is purely a biological need because the female body is more prone to urinary tract infections if the urge to urinate is held too often. 

Some additional and fair assumptions:

• If females use the bathroom more often than males, the probability of the seat being down is greater than the probability of the seat being up. 
• It is equally annoying for the seat to be down for males as it is for it to be up for females.
• Splatter is a non-issue since girls splatter just as much as guys do, just on different parts of the toilet (under the seat as opposed to around the bowl). I have a sister so I know.

 So in other words, girls: stop yo' complaining. We deal with an unfair share as it is and you don't see us bitching and moaning about it.

If everyone else is drawing their blinds and setting up visual walls around their castle, that's a free wall that I don't have to build to maintain my privacy. No blinds, sunshine, and all the privacy I want.

Of course, I won't be using Behance...I don't see the value proposition.

Just beautiful!

This is a shot from space of a figure-eight caused by phosphorescence near the Falkland Islands.

This is a shot of the moon. It looks like it is "dipping" in Earth's atmosphere, but the unusual shape is actually caused by the atmospheric gases bending light according to NASA.