There is an iconic photo of Judy Collins on the beach, seagulls overhead, powerful waves behind her. She has an expression of spiritual bliss and ecstasy. We tried to recreate this scene with the HotPot image generator, using a simple prompt of “Judy Collins on the beach, large waves behind her, seagulls flying overhead.” It […]
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Difficult A Google search yields these interesting and challenging puzzles: World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle According to The Guinness Book of World’s Records: A nice interview with Jill Walterbach can be found on Puzzle Hobby Magazine. But…. there’s competition…. The story from the BBC is from about 6 months ago, so we’ll have to wait to […]
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White Rabbits, Part II
[ed. note: thanks to UC#2 for today’s topic] Marginalia Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations. Wikipedia The British Library Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back Vengeful, merciless and brutally violent… yes that’s right, […]
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What’s On?
[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.
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Men of Twine
[Thanks to UC#1-SU for today’s topic] Disney Princes of Twine Sean Connery Rock Hudson Han Solo Honorable Mention
[Today we are treated to a BLOTT by Elders UC#3, UC#1, and UC#1-SU] UC#3 (from an undisclosed location in HousTex) As is little known but I am sure UC#2 [staff spiritual advisor] will discover during his academic pursuits, in addition to gold, frankincense and myrrh, the Maji also brought jalapeño cheese biscuits to the Blessed […]
We were honoured to host Mona Lisa at our central Texas headquarters recently. Mona Tries Mexican Food Mona had never had Tex-Mex before, but she is now a big fan. Livestock Show and Rodeo Mona was a featured performer at the Austin Livestock Show and Rodeo. Mona Meets Willie While at the rodeo, Mona had […]
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Humanizing Mary
sometimes i wonder if mary breastfed jesus if she cried out when he bit her or if she sobbed when he would not latch and sometimes i wonder if this is all too vulgar to ask in a church full of men without milk stains on their shirts or coconut oil on their breasts preaching […]
UC#3, the celebrated WLBOTT Poet Laureate, offers his reflections on his good will tour of Japan. In Kyoto- nice crisp weather, leaves in color, 17,000 well behaved Japanese students on field trips, our son [redacted] is tolerating us in a pleasant way. I am inspired to produce a haiku- Golden pagodaLeaves turning dark crimsonTime for […]