Tag: bemusement
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Folly houses reprint
Reprinting solely to add an interesting fact that lends weight to one side of my guesses and eliminates the other side. Fact: Vintage.es shows city officials smashing pinball machines with the same gusto that they smashed kegs of beer. Pinball is about as innocent as you can get in the whole historical realm of gambling,…
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Novative Ruption
In sync with my recent items about the history of Standard Register and the history of Electrotyping, and in sync with previous item about Bible IP, received an email just now from Monotype. I vaguely remember buying a license for a computer font LONG ago, maybe 2004. At that time I was trying to sell…
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Inner fog
Thankfully we’re past the supercold and snow, into a typical January period of fog and overcast. Looking at the airport records this morning to see if the fog was starting to let up… It’s so dense you can’t even see outside at all! You can only see inside your head!
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Had to jump in
The Hasidic tunnel in NYC is weird in an infinite number of ways. First, a Hasidic Riot is the weirdest possible image. Second, if they wanted a mikvah, it would be easier and safer to build one in their own building, instead of paying Mexicans to dig a tunnel to reach the existing mikvah. Hasidim…
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Weird injustice
With the Epstein list scheduled to emerge today, media are speculating on the contents. Most of the names are already known and some are apparently incidental, so as usual this “revelation” won’t reveal. Deepstate never reveals anything that isn’t already known. Media coverage of Epstein has always intentionally missed the purpose of his operation. Everyone…
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Learned something from clickbait
Microsoft Edge fills its base page with clickbait. I haven’t managed to turn it off yet**, so I’m irresistibly clicking. This story caught my attention because I visited Muncie in 1968 while campaigning for Gene McCarthy. I remember Muncie as a pretty place, with an especially wonderful park by the river. I learned several things…
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Integity
The spam from Speaker Mike addressed to Friend continues to roll in hot and heavy. Now they’re barraging Friend with paper spam as well. Friend knows that “Elections” are a myth, so “election integrity materials” are similar to “Santa Claus integrity materials” or “Jackalope integrity materials”. You’d think they would pay more attention to SPELLING…
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Interesting dream
Napped at an unusual time, got an unusual dream. All the rich fuckheads were traveling on four-person sedan chairs, hand-carried by teams of servants. While the rich fuckheads were lounging on sofas, chatting and sipping cocktails, the servants were sweating and trying to maneuver the big platforms through doors and streets. Unfortunately the dream wasn’t…
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Mirror image
A few days ago Terry Mattingly, an experienced religion reporter, was complaining that media doesn’t want to know anything about religion. The NYTimes recently advertised for a religion writer who had absolutely no connection or knowledge about religion. Today Ted Gioia, an experienced music writer, complains about the EXACT OPPOSITE situation. He says music critics…
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All guesses wrong
Satan Altman joined Microsoft. All guesses, including mine, were wrong. It’s still a good soap opera. MS does not belong to the Move Fast And Break Things camp. MS has always been disciplined by the needs of its customers who use its products for real work. This morning I’ve been thinking about a new computer…
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Status all the way
Spokane had a mayoral “election” yesterday. The results seem to give a majority, not a landslide, to Lisa Brown (D) over Nadine Woodward (R). Brown will continue ruining the city, with a D label instead of an R label. There might be some differences in flavor on the question of homeless camps, but otherwise no…
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No snappy conclusions
Tiffany gives a short report on Sammy’s actual testimony. After many years of conquering everyone he wants to conquer, many years of confidently promising the world and delivering shit, he ends up mumbling a hundred versions of “I don’t remember”. I can’t think of any snappy conclusions based on Professional Criminal personality traits. This is…
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Odd gimmicks
I’ve been enjoying the Jam Handy Chevrolet newsreels lately. Nice mix of features. Each episode includes pretty girls, activity in Death Valley, fishermen, unusual pets, school safety, and big construction projects. This 1937 episode focuses on trailer living, which was one solution to Depression unemployment. The text doesn’t overly glamorize the lifestyle, making it clear…
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Friend spam
All spam messages are now addressed to Friend. Even the supposedly high-dollar politicians start every message with Friend. I’m getting peculiar repeated messages asking me to “endorse” Jim Jordan for some meaningless office in meaningless Congress. Jordan was already rejected three times for the meaningless office, but Friend is still supposed to “endorse” him. Friend,…
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Rebantamized
Curbside Classic featured an Argentine descendant of Willys that I hadn’t seen before. The Brazilian variants are well known, pictured in all the usual books and websites. The pictured Rastrojero is a sort of four-door ute. It’s clearly an original design, not a modified Aero, but it did use the Go-Devil four and the doorhandles…
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