Ladies and gentlemen, To better serve our community, we’ve created our first WLBOTT Visitor Survey. About half the questions are original, the other half curated from the interwebs. Rules: Replies must be PG13, PG, G only. Spousal units, friends, relatives encouraged to participate. All published results will be anonymized. You can submit your responses via […]
Category: Random Acts of WLBOTTness
Keepin’ things lite today…. Life is fulla pressure / life is fulla pain – Fr. Stan Let’s just take 5 and have some fun. Some more randomly cool stuff (mostly liberated from Bored Panda)
We have had many, many inquires[1] as to how we select topics for our BLOTTs. One technique is to use the Special:Random feature of Wikipedia. [1] Well, one person acted kinda curious, but they may have just wanted us to go away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Methodology Selection Criteria Would this Wiki page, in and of itself, make […]
You can issue the following link to get a random Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Admittedly, this qualifies as mildly interesting. Today’s BLOTT represents a curated sample of perhaps 200 random pages. It’s been that kind of Sunday…..
Today’s BLOTT has an interesting stream of consciousness. It started with a conversation with UC#3: “How hard can it be to tune your own piano?” [ed. note: very hard] Which led to…. Which somehow led to solving the seemingly easy, but actually really difficult problem: [from UC#3] I have spent many hours and actually have […]
Came across this hat on a walk this morning along an Austin nature trail…. Today feels like a Sunday morning on a Friday afternoon (nod to John Prine).
¡Feliz cumpleaños! Today we celebrate the anniversary of Unindicted Co-conspirator #3’s birth. Public Service Announcement We can’t emphasize this enough, people. Do not confuse these two: Yesterday’s News in 1 Screen Shot Behind the Curtain: WLBOTT IT Song of the Day WLBOTT Team Building: NYC WLBOTT team building in NYC included a trip to The […]
Today, I am the egg man. You are the egg man. We are the egg man.Hoy, soy el hombre huevo. Eres el hombre huevo. Somos el hombre huevo. [ed. note: UC#4 is trying to learn Spanish] Total Consumption Per Capita Back of the envelope Calcs Key take-aways: Fun Facts From the Old Farmer’s Almanac…. It’s […]
Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #2 for today’s topic. It would be impossible for me to provide any value-add to this, other than to say that during the course of this 4:11 video, you will learn of roving gangs of stoned adolescent male bottle-nose dolphins, spy-camera sea turtles, and neurotoxins.
Unindicted co-conspirator #2 called from Oslo to ask the following question: Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do you need to allow the animal access to exactly half an acre? – Quanta […]