Tag: Entertainment
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I can see it now…
The Ankler is discussing the bank runs as a future movie….. I can see it now. It’s an Effective Life. Sammy as George Bailey. Caroline as Marian the Librarian. William MacAskill as Oddbody. Powell as the bartender: “This is a HARD BANK. We serve HARD MONEY to HARD MEN. We don’t want no Bitcoin Twinkies…
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Pierce trucks 2
We’re looking at an old tourist court, with a shady-looking truck and trailer parked in one of the spaces. It’s a 1915 Pierce truck, with some unique features. The four-speed transmission had a semi-freewheeling device. When you pushed the clutch down all the way, the input shaft of the gearbox was slowed down, allowing a…
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Just for fun
Extracted from a 1944 episode of Fountain of Fun, performed by the Pratchett Sisters. Fast-moving complicated rhythm and intense harmony. Tuesday at Ten. As far as I can tell there isn’t a vocal version of the song online. Youtube has a couple of good instrumentals. Also by the same sisters, Surrey.
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Weather humor
The local Weather Bureau has finally figured out that you don’t gain trust by constantly screeching imprecatory prayers to Gaia and her Prophetess Greta. Cuteness works better. This is cute and educational at the same time. Science should be entertainment, not torture.
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~π
Today isn’t Pi Day, but a couple of half-decent Pi jokes showed up today. First, from a rare ’40s radio show, one of the many with high quality music and low quality but often funny comedy. This poem was featured in Fountain of Fun from November 1942 when rationing was the hot topic. Food and…
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AM hi-fi
Trying to avoid anxiety in supercold weather, I’m browsing through 1936 issues of Broadcasting magazine. Ran into a totally unfamiliar technology in a totally familiar location! W9XBY in downtown KCMO. At first I thought this was the well-known experimental TV branch of KMBC. It’s the same company in the same building, but different call letters…
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Tickled
This joke tickled me. Businessman calling entertainment agency: “How much will it cost to buy a large singing group? I need one for a formal dinner party.” Agent: “Do you mean a choir?” Businessman: “Okay, fine. How much does it cost to acquire a large singing group?”
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Launderette
Protos writes up a peculiar story about a tiny bank in a Palouse town that ended up as a node in Bankman-Fried’s crime syndicate. Farmington is a typical leftover small town between Spokane and Pullman. It briefly flourished as a rail terminal, then faded down to the magic number of 150. The Farmington Bank remained…
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More wasted energy
Rehashing from a few weeks ago: = = = = = START REHASH: What the world needs now is NOT love, sweet or otherwise. The real tragedy of the bitcoin/NFT/DAO crap is identical to the real tragedy of the hippie crap. Both were motivated by youthful idealism, and both ruthlessly exploited the idealism to gain…
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Problem solved!
Our noble leaders are warning us to be VEEEEEEEEEEEERY PATIENT, because it takes a VEEEEEEEEERY LONG TIME to count votes. Obviously we need a technical fix. Polistra has a fresh Innovative Disruptive idea! We need a machine that works something like an abacus, except a whole lot faster. She realizes that this is WAY beyond…
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Introview squared!
A few months ago I coined the word introview for an interview conducted by an introvert. Here we have a double introview! Lots of real Shannon information, real news that breaks up standard ideas. Even though I’m a solid introvert, a double exposure of non-eye-contactors in a show business situation is disconcerting and hard to…
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High-yield CD
The nocoiners at Reddit tend to know the ins and outs of real markets. One of them notes that Binance is a major partner in Elon’s purchase of Twitter. Binance is a sort of bridge between the allegedly “traditional” finance establishment and the allegedly “unorthodox” bitcoin world. This will add spice to Deepstate’s fake fight.…
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Not nice but funny as hell
The usual Spokane daily crap, followed by the usual nice responses, and then……
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Kirn misses it
Here he balances out yesterday’s precise hit! We’re in what I’d term the “taste destruction” phase of cultural change. It’s similar to what food co’s did once to wean us off good food and prepare us for products like Wonder Bread, only it involves language, images, and music. You’ll accept less once you forget there…
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Taking on water
In the ’47-65 period when disc UFOs were reported everywhere, several people saw a disc hovering over a lake or pond, siphoning or pumping large quantities of water. This wouldn’t make sense for an electric motor or even a small nuclear plant. Our long-distance satellites have mini nuke reactors, and they don’t need water. Taking…
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