Tag: bemusement
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Accurate location
Since I don’t own a cellphone, websites make peculiar guesses about my location, presumably based on the office of my cable provider. When I was using Comcast, the guesses tended toward the southeast part of town. Occasionally they would go wild, thinking I was down in Richland (150 miles south of here) or Seattle. For…
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First sighting!
Found in the Engrish area of Reddit. First sighting anywhere on the net! Ðe original instructions are in ICELANDIC, and ðe English translation is dubious. Icelandic never appears on ðe web. Ðe letters shared wiþ Anglo-Saxon make it stand out immediately. Later, I guess the rarity makes sense numerically. Iceland’s population is 400k, about the…
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Creative fights
Spokane’s methies are always finding new combinations of weapons. Today’s creation: 1100 East Glass, Assault Reported. Reported roommates fighting and one person hit with a guitar and a hatchet thrown at another. Guitar vs hatchet doesn’t win the award. Golf club vs milk is still on top of the rankings.
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Should be simple
It’s hardly news that tech algorithms are insane, designed to drive us insane. Here’s an outstanding example. I wrote a glowing Yelp review for the taxi service I use when I’m not in good shape. He does a splendid job of dealing with my elderly slowness, and always remembers everything. (Similar to mail carriers in…
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Oddity
Just noticed an odd contradiction. The way we learn math in school is NOT the way math is really done in business. We learned each addition as a single process with a single answer. 3 + 4 = 7 Real math by mechanical processes, from the abacus to the Addiator to adding machines to cash…
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Weirdest dream
Worth recording…. This morning’s dream surpassed the 2011 WEERDX PEEBLEX dream in outright weirdness. I was kidnapped by a young MALICIOUS descendant of Henry Ford. He gathered us into a cult based on cursive handwriting, drove us around in his Model T, and left us in a hole filled with mosquitoes. I climbed out and…
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Superweirdness by WordPress
I started to write a silly piece with some wordplay. After pushing Add New Post, WordPress gave me a single line with 1 at the left. Each time I hit Enter it adds a new line with a new ‘verse number’. This is bizarre. How far will it go? Probably indefinitely. Is this a special…
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Not quite up to standards!
Looks like career arsonist “Misty” Horne will spend at least one night in jail. No new arson fires while he’s off the streets, but Spokane is returning to its normal condition: Car Jacking Reported. Reported naked male was unloading trash in a field and was confronted. Deputies located the naked male who then ran towards…
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Didn’t really need proof.
Canadians are unquestionably less noisy and less violent than Americans. Lit firework thrown in Waterloo is a HEADLINE. If one day went by WITHOUT some asshole tossing a lit firework and starting a brush fire, it would be a banner headline here. Unrelated: The streetcar tracks in the video caught my attention. Does Waterloo have…
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Odd behavior
Facebook and Substack have both started doing an odd thing lately. Both occasionally send emails with an old item from the archive. Facebook says I should enjoy reviewing some random comment I wrote back in March. Not the same as reprinting an old article because it’s relevant to today’s events. That’s a rational way to…
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Enid’s Fallingwater is for sale
It’s a fantastic Wrightish design, every part custom engineered and custom-made. It’s in The Woodlands, Enid’s best neighborhood for many years. Built in ’92, it wasn’t there when I lived in Enid in the ’70s. From the blurb: Upon completion the home was featured on the HGTV series “Extreme Homes”. When entering the walled courtyard…
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Full moon.
Lots of craziness tonight, including my own mood. SpokaneNews reports: 4200 South Hatherly Cir, Reported female smashing a vehicle with a golf club. Reported DV incident and now a male is pouring milk on the female. We need new trite sayings! Don’t bring a golf club to a milk fight. Bet on the sourest milk.…
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Who ever expected????
I don’t pay attention to instructions on food packages. Today the sun through the window highlighted these instructions on frozen veg as I was reaching into the package to grab some broccoli and carrots. = = = = = Instructions for stovetop: In a medium saucepan combine 8 oz of vegetables and 8 oz of…
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Must be a new month
Substack has screwed up its format again. This always happens at the first of a month. Each time the screwup is different. Goddamnit, why do tech tyrants have to keep fucking things up for the sole purpose of fucking things up? Human beings are smart enough to LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE. Unfortunately human beings don’t…
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Odd dream reference
Had a positive dream this morning featuring a character known as “1990s activist Anna Stan”. That was her full name, like Bearded Clarinetist Acker Bilk. Decided to see if there really was such a character. There was an Anna Stan (also spelled Sten). The dream character looked like her. She was a Russian actress with…
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