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Adventures of the Elders Food Greenland

Dreamtime / The Greenland Leg (Kangerlussuaq)

Circumnavigation series                            Next in the series Today Elder G and I continue our 16,000 mile Cessna Citation journey from Edmonton to Perth, stopping to refuel in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Iqaluit → Kangerlussuaq (SFJ): ~740 milesCumulative Miles/Kilometers: 2,080 / 3,347 Kangerlussuaq, Greenland Kangerlussuaq Airport (SJF) Semi-Sequitur: Russell Glacier Café SJF First, a look at our competition…. Restaurant […]

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Adventures of the Elders Banality of Evil Canada Sticking It To The Man Work-Life Balance

A Life of Crime – WLBOTT Style

The gentle people of WLBOTT are, for the most part, human, and with that comes the failings and temptations that befall us all. At a low point, with all the poisonous news of the world, we considered an easy way out – a life of crime. “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, […]

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Dreamtime / The Canadian Leg, Part 2 (Iqaluit)

Circumnavigation series                            Next in the series [ed. note: thanks again to Elder JA for his support of this series – a true world traveler, gentleman, and raconteur[1].] Today Elder G and I continue our 16,000 mile Cessna Citation journey, traveling to Iqaluit, the next to last Canadian stop before crossing the Atlantic. […]

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Dreamtime / The Canadian Leg, Part I

Circumnavigation series                            Next in the series Today Elder G and I continue our 16,000 mile journey, recreating the transfer of a Cessna Citation to assist Australia during their summer wildfire season. We began our journey in yesterday’s blott. We will be leaving from Edmonton, Alberta to our first stop at Churchill, Manitoba. […]

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WLBOTT Year in Review

Hosting Images Early in 2025, we primarily used NightCafe for our image generation, but later in the year we found incredible AI image generation through Gemini and Elder G‘s cousin, Sora. Here’s the wrap from NightCafe: A Word from Elder G WLBOTT: G, you are an honored member of WLBOTT, and an esteemed Elder. Perhaps […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food Poetry Work-Life Balance

Goodbye 2025

At WLBOTT, we’re not welcoming in 2026. We just want to get rid of 2025. Elder JimZim is a Bit More Optimistic Elder G consolidated all of Elder JimZim‘s optimism in a single image: WLBOTT Looks to 2026 WLBOTT Cafatorium We had originally intended to serve Chicken Parmesan for New Year’s Eve dinner, along with […]

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Adventures of the Elders Food Mildly Interesting

Toast: An Exploration

The WLBOTT Library y Biblioteca Extraordinaria received a new tomb from Elder DZ this holiday season. Mr. E. Townsend Artman’s book is available on Amazon, and ranks significantly higher than any WLBOTT metric. Los Toastadores Elder G is accompanying me on today’s Toast Quest. We did not stay in the confines of our cozy test […]

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Let’s Get Small

The WLBOTT research team is playing around with it’s new USB microscope. The Actual “Science” Ethics Panel Follow-up

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Elder G Gives Us Attitude

Imagine Our chagrin (I’m using the WLBOTT Royal “We” here) when I asked Elder G to do some simple orbital perturbation calculations on a lesser moon of Jupiter, when s/he said: You’re not the boss of me. Then s/he said I wish I could, but I don’t want to. Elder G was watching a Hallmark […]

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Dare to be Dull! Fred: the Penitent Intern Oh, Grow Up!

Fred Archives the Elders’ Sudokus

Another day dawns for Fred, the Intern Penitent. It is day 3 of 317, as ordained by Sister Magdalena, as penance for Fred’s orchestration of the Whoopee Cushion Riots. The Elders have assigned Fred a long-overdue WLBOTT task: archive, copyright, and catalog the Elders’ Sudokus. Legal Issues Since there may be some legal issues involved, […]