Paraskevidekatriaphobia: the fear of Friday the 13th. Who are we to judge? Some of us are afraid of cantaloupes or crumpets. – NPR Friday the 13th – the Nuts and Bolts Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar […]
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Monitor Lizards
During our recent refueling stop in Bali, Elder G and I came across the Monitor Lizard. Monitor Lizards: The Nuts and Bolts Will There Be a Buffet? Habits and dietMost monitor lizards are almost entirely carnivorous, consuming prey as varied as insects, crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods, molluscs, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Most species feed […]
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Dreamtime Bali
Circumnavigation series Next in the series Batam → Bali / Denpasar (DPS): ~1,000 miles We’ve crossed the Equator! Our next stop, and the last refueling before entering Australia, is Denpasar (DPS), the Capital of Bali. Elder G and I were quite surprised to see a line demarcating the northern and southern hemispheres, just […]
When life hands you fascism, you look for opportunities for fantastic-ism. We’ve all heard that jeff bezos recently laid off 300 journalists from the Washington post. He literally stranded his own journalists in a war zone in Ukraine. There are many disturbing ramifications of this move, especially related to freedom of the press and appeasement […]
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Ina Mina Dika
Friends, this video will improve your life by an estimated 7.3%. What is going on? That was a clip from a 1957 Hindi RomCom called Aasha. Aasha (transl. Hope) is a 1957 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by M. V. Raman. It stars Kishore Kumar and Vyjayanthimala. The film was a critical and commercial success. […]
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Dreamtime / Batam
Circumnavigation series Next in the series Bangkok → Batam (BTH): ~880 miles The next refueling stop for Elder G and myself was the Hang Nadim International Airport in Batam, Indonesia. One of Elder G‘s practical joker colleagues got a little confused about the concept of personal space…. Batam One of the amazing things […]
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Dreamtime / Bangkok
Circumnavigation series Next in the series Kolkata → Bangkok (DMK):: ~1,020 miles Today Elder G and I flew into Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. We’re refueling our Cessna Citation as we continue our journey from Edmonton to Perth. A congested airspace (according to AI)… Some confusion among the mechanics doing the […]
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WLBOTT Notes
We’re all familiar with Cliff Notes and Spark Notes, but those references still involves reading. And who has the time? We’re all busy people, so let’s let Elder G help us out. Moby-Dick: Man .v. Whale Lord of the Flies, Elder G–style, five words or fewer: Gone with the WindWLBOTT Notes edition: If we wanted […]
The WLBOTT HR manager, Bev, was planning a birthday party for her niece Bevette, and learned that WLBOTT had an internal-use-only petting zoo. Bev does do her due diligence. She checked out the brochure: She was impressed that the zoo animals had their own Linked-In page… … as well as individual profiles: But on the […]
We’ve gone down an interesting rabbit hole today. It all began with a visit to our local Ukrainian and Eastern European market (a delightful store called Borderless European Market. Having never tried sturgeon, I purchased a sturgeon meal-in-a-can. Due to push-back among the anti-piscatorial faction at the home office, I’ve had to delay the opening […]