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Fine Arts Mildly Interesting Movies

WLBOTT Goes To the Movies

Paint Drying IMDB: 8.9 Curated Reviews Science For Our International Visitors

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Adventures of the Elders TechnoBLOTT

R5-D4 moves!

[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]

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Existential Angst

The 2020 Vibe, part 3

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Current Events Meaning of Life

The 2020 Vibe in Memes

To help fight the collective amnesia, maybe this will help to jog some memories….

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Current Events Existential Angst

Covid and Collective Amnesia

The Elders have been exploring the concept of “Collective Amnesia”, especially as it relates to recent global pandemic. UC#2 passed along a Guardian article on this very subject: Covid was so bad for so many – why aren’t we talking about it more? My friend, who suffers badly from long Covid, struggles to understand the […]

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Adventures of the Elders Fine Arts

UC#3 IRL

WLBOTT HR has granted UC#3 S/UIRL[1](pronounced /səˈrēəl/), but he leaves us with the following non-haiku limerick: There once was a man named Jerry He farmed a bog full of cranberry Every morning he put on his hip waders And would sell his harvest to OceanSpray traders But he secretly only enjoyed pie made of blueberry […]

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Fine Arts Music Romania

A Most Universal Theme

I just realized – The Queen of the Night Aria probably represents the most universal of human experiences: a teenage girl has her mom down to her very last nerve. [watch on YouTube] Elena Moșuc Soprano Elena Moșuc plays the queen. How ’bout this for keeping the dream alive! Ms. Moșuc sings at the Zurich […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food Japan

Ozoni / Mochi

It all began with a work assignment from board member and Senior Elder UC#3: [UC#3]Much more work to do for WLBOTT: and connections between food and culture/religion [UC#3]And the mochi thing is real: Four women die in Tokyo after choking on ‘mochi’ rice cakes | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis [UC#1-SU]Can […]

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Book Club Current Events Food

The 2000 Watt Society

A concept brought up in Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future is the 2000 Watt Society. With its emphasis on scientific accuracy and non-fiction descriptions of history and social science, the novel is classified as hard science fiction. – Wikipedia The 2000-watt society is a real thing. Much of the novel is […]

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Asia Exonumia/Philately are not contagious Food The land, the people, the culture

From Mochi to the Shrinking MoMo: Food Artistry

UC#3 sent us down a delicious rabbit hole when he suggested we research the dangers of eating Ozoni soup on New Year’s Day in Japan which causes choking deaths from the gelatinous mochi ball. Many of these images were liberated from My Modern Met (more below). Konel Bread More liberation from My Modern Met: Toast […]