How To

I got this book for Matt for Christmas. He loved it, and laughed out loud a lot, and read passages to me, and told me I needed to read it when he was done. So I did. I'm such a good wife. :)

I don't think I appreciated it nearly as much as he did, but I'm not a physics-head, and you really have to be in the right headspace for this book because a lot of it is, to use the phrase from the cover, absurd. That said, I also laughed out loud way more than I thought I would.

Favorite chapters:
• How to Play the Piano - something about extending a keyboard to include notes that are only discernible if you're playing music for bats and elephants really appealed to me?
• How to Move - because the comics were funny and I've been on highways next to houses that are being moved in their Oversized Load trucks, and seeing other (absurd) ways of moving a house was funny (as was the idea of just putting all your boxes on the ground and using a truck to push them to the new location).
• How to Play Football - yeah I don't even care about football or Lord of the Rings, but if the whole point of the chapter is how to score a touchdown and then throw the football into Mordor ... I'm on board.
• How to Play Tag - because Munroe pitted the two fastest runners in the world for distance and sprints against each other and then determined how they would or would not win at tag. The only things is, he forgot about the No Tagbacks rule.
• How to Win an Election - because dear God at least something election-related is funny and doesn't involve You-Know-Who.