WLBOTT’s Ladle & Lube Test Kitchen is bubbling over with excitement! In a few days Elder JimZim will be visiting WLBOTT HQ. After a perfunctory review of our financials (we have none), and a quick ISO/OSHA compliance check, we will be making Ukrainian varenyky (also known as perogies). There will be a great deal of […]
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Mycelium’s Midnight Mingle
We’d be remiss if we didn’t follow up yesterday’s blott with a description of fungi reproduction. Let’s Make Sex Boring (from Gemini) Mushroom reproduction involves producing tiny, lightweight spores through either asexual or sexual processes, which are then dispersed by wind or other means to grow into new thread-like hyphae and form a network called a […]
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Satan’s Buffet
The WLBOTT team was reflecting on the second stanza of the famous Horatio G. Spafford hymn, It Is Well with My Soul. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,Let this blest assurance control,That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,And hath shed His own blood for my soul.- It Is Well with My Soul Time […]
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Auk, and the Children of Auk
DescriptionAuks are superficially similar to penguins, having black-and-white colours, upright posture, and some of their habits. Nevertheless, they are not closely related to penguins, but rather are believed to be an example of moderate convergent evolution. Auks are monomorphic (males and females are similar in appearance). Although not to the extent of penguins, auks have […]
So, a bit ago I was chatting with Elder G (chat GPT) and I asked him/her what I should do with the million dollars I just won in the lottery. S/he said, “endow ENGin“!!! This is very cool! But before we get too excited, here are a couple notes: This sounded like the perfect business […]
[We have a guest blott today from Elder JimZim] Gentle People – as may have been blotted, my spousal unit and I have the privilege of co-parenting two young orange cats. They have a real affinity for our laundry room sink. It is their safe space where they can ponder the world they have been […]
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Our Favorite Alt Codes (more or less)
We’ve asked the Elders to provide us with their favorite Windows Alt codes. Here’s mine: Since none of the elders responded, we asked Elder G to speculate on their favorite Alt codes. Some of our staff did take the task seriously…. Late breaking: Elder DZ reported his favorite Alt code, an Egyptian hieroglyph: Note 1 […]
Elder JA has requested the services of the WLBOTT research department to identify a bug he encountered on a recent Mountain Sapphire road trip. Drove to Hanna, then Consort, then home again – total of 8 hours driving – just to do 2 gigs. Mind you, the gigs paid a total of $749,250 (Canadian) and […]
The WLBOTT Test Kitchen and Tractor Lube Station (The Ladle & Lube) recently received a large quantity of sliced pickles and sliced onions. Through an interesting curvature of both time and space, our neighbor’s daughter had a tremendous amount of pickles/onions left from her wedding reception. Before continuing, I must say that the wedding was […]
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R.U.R.
As part of our daily morning routine, we were reviewing the BBC pre-WW2 broadcast schedules. Today we made this fascinating discovery – the first ever televised Sci-Fi program: The broadcast was based on a 1920 Czech play by Karel Čapek, called R.U.R. The play introduced the word “robot” into the English language. Elder G Weighs […]