Tag: bemusement
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Speaking of chickens
Speaking of chickens… A free-range Rhode Island Red videobombed one of the Youtubers specializing in the Philly fentanyl folks. Chickens are scavengers who will eat anything, so they certainly belong in the same niche as rats and seagulls and humans. How did it get there? Well, chickens can fly, though like quail they prefer walking.…
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Not quite appropriate
And More businesses are common. Total Wine and More Hats Scarves and More Letter Jackets and More Bedding Curtains and More Candy and More The theme doesn’t always work well…….
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Odd dynasty
After Trump was “elected” and before he imprisoned and strangled the world, I noticed an asymmetry in my spam email. The Trump side was exclusively DYNASTIC and ROYAL. The spammers wanted me to sign a birthday card for Lord Trump, or send good wishes to one of Trump’s mistresses or misters or wives or husbands.…
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Waving along with the wain
After a week of unseasonable warmth, we’re returning to the expected 60s with a bit of drama. This time Ma Nature decided to imitate a snake. Zooming way out, today’s pattern is even weirder. It appears to be drawing moisture from the Atlantic and Gulf, and carrying the moisture WESTWARD across the whole country. Looks…
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Saw saw.
Speaking of my father’s woodworking talent…. This morning while waiting for a bus I noticed a nice clean old-fashioned handsaw laying on a lawn. No other tools or junk, and no obvious reason for it to be there. No construction in the area. Did it fall off a truck? Unlikely. Contractors use only high-speed power…
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Lost name opportunity
Some of the Trinity House experiments in shipboard wireless were performed at the lighthouse on Muckle Flugga, an island in the Shetlands. What a lost opportunity! If the first success had happened there, we’d be studying Mucklefluggology and listening to the Flugga and checking our eflug. The lighthouse is still there, and looks very muckle…
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Doveration
Earlier I noted the rather cheap graphics in stamps honoring the new King Charles. Now the invitation to the Crowning has been revealed. Also looks familiar. Here are a couple segments from the invitation, and a couple of stock ‘floral images’ on a CD that I bought from Dover many years ago. Not quite the…
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Better without the name
The DeSoto was a car that sold better when it wasn’t named. It was developed as an answer to Pontiac. Pontiac was a jumped-up Chevy, and DeSoto was a jumped-up Plymouth. At first DeSoto played up the Spanish theme, calling models Cupe De Lujo and Cupe De Business. This gimmick disappeared immediately. Both had personal…
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CNN’s mother
CNN and Fox figured out how to pose a soap opera as “news”. Stories run for months or years without any real plot movement. Shit happens, but shit has no consequences. The characters just keep on doing more shit. CBS introduced the genre in 1949. Only a few episodes of Wendy Warren and the News…
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Itchy
The semi-prosecution of celebrity bitcoin influencers bothers me. There’s nothing new about celebrity endorsers who know absolutely nothing about the product they endorse. Their managers and agents make the arrangements, and the celebrities just read the script like any movie or show. Punishing an action that was effectively legal at the time of the endorsement…
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Manual as usual
Tax time again. So far I’ve managed to avoid all the software solutions. For 53 years I’ve been figuring manually and sending a check. Once around 2010 I tried the IRS’s online E-file service, but it immediately urped when I tried to enter self-employment income from a 1099. Enough of that, back to manual. (Image…
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Nah, he can’t be that dumb.
Still pointlessly trying to figure out the motives of SBF. He keeps testing the limits, and the judge keeps clamping more limits. Obviously he’s a pro criminal type who simply can’t stop testing limits. Mafiosi from 1930 to 1970 belonged to the same personality but had more TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE. That’s the puzzle. Mafia bosses didn’t…
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Wrong word, same advice?
Randomly noted in a Reddit topic of ‘useful quotations’… How to survive in a tyranny: Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. In 1969, Warden Copley gave the new intakes his standard speech. Imagine Edward G. Robinson as a gangster and you’ve got Warden Copley. I heard him say: Keep your mouth closed and…
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Ancient words continued
Following on previous item about the ancient details of possession… Yesterday I watched a stupid Youtube sales pitch for NFTs. Even now, after the whole fake entity has publicly collapsed, the scammers are still working hard. Old radio and TV shows about rackets dramatized this aspect. As the cops were hauling the swindler off, he…
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Opposite kind of “music”
Archive has a few episodes of Herb Shriner Time, which is the opposite of other old variety programs. Most have splendid music and crappy comedy. Shriner is a splendid comedian with atrocious “music”. The “music” was outputted by an entity called the Raymond Scott Quintet. Example: Powerhouse. This piece is mechanistic and ugly, in the…
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