It began simple enough…. an email exchange between UC#3 and UC#1: Gents- I know I’ve been a bit offline for WLBOTT, but I have a friend who is traveling to northern Alberta next week and she and I were talking and I recommended she take her engineering team to this restaurant in Fort McMurray. Looks […]
The First Step of the Journey is Terrifying It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. But with a Warrior’s Heart, We Accept Our Fear The river needs to take the riskof entering the oceanbecause only then will fear disappear. And Faith That’s where the river will know. The River […]
Everything Everywhere All at Once Everything Everywhere All at Once is a wild ride of a movie. A fun wild ride! One of my favorite movies from 2022. [ed. note: completely under my radar – I didn’t even hear about it until a few months ago.] It has just about everything – Sci-Fi, Kung-Fu, love, […]
Wildberries – the Amazon of Russia A fire has broken out at a warehouse in St. Petersburg, days after workers were involved in a brawl at the site, with arson a suspected cause. Despite the encroaching flames, a guard continued to inspect the workers to make sure they were not stealing anything, Baza added. Eventually, […]
Today we honor my Mom’s life by celebrating her Irish sense of humor! World’s Funnies Joke What do you call a gas explosion in a Paris Color Tile? Linoleum Blown Apart. Shamelessly liberated from Bored Panda, the Interwebs, et. al. A very rich man was on his death bed and called together his three trusted […]
Like any modern corporation, when we make a mistake, we lie like hell. But sometimes, for internal matters, we must find innocent parties to blame. So recently we sent out an internal memo. It was meant for our Energy Research Division, but unfortunately we also copied our Fashion Division, our Ministry of Virtue and Vice, […]
[part 1 of 27] What are the WLBOTTers watching? The Tourist “You’ve got amnesia? Awesome!” When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him. – IMDB Here are just some of the countries […]
[Thanks to Sally the Intern for her assistance in today’s BLOTT] A friend of WLBOTT recently experienced some burst pipes (big freeze in Central Texas last week). We asked our AI friends to help us understand this situation.
One of the scariest aspects of TrumpWorld (and there are many) is that he is encouraging his followers to consider him the anointed one, the chosen one, the persecuted Christ. Trump shares bizarre biblical video saying God made him to be America’s ‘caretaker’ Republican gives full vent to messiah complex on eve of Iowa caucuses […]
Russia is having trouble keeping the lights on. I remember the optimism of the late ’90s, when we naively thought that Russia would be a grown-up country, we would all work together to make the world a more stable place, we could turn our nuclear swords into nuclear plowshares[2]. But greed and lust for power […]