When I was a kid, my dad had these things that looked like pieces of chalk that he would use to stop the bleeding if he cut himself shaving. I hadn’t really thought about it until recently when I was in the shaving section at the grocery store and found something called a styptic pencil, a product “For Minor Cuts and Insect Bites.” It contained two pencils. I’m not sure why you’d need to buy more than one, they seem like they would last at least a decade. That is, unless you were an extra clumsy shaver.

Read the rest of Matt’s rambling »