Step 1: Obtain a Violin Rent, Buy, or Build Your Own? A reasonably priced violin will range in price from about $259 to a little over $23,000,000[1]. Rentals start around $35/month. You can probably build your own with odds and ends around your garage. [1] The most expensive violin ever sold is the 1715 “Baron […]
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D Major
A delightful morning with Elder G! WLBOTT: Good morning, G. What musical key shall we sing in to welcome the day? ELDER G: Good morning, Elder JZ. If the morning were a doorway, the key you choose is the shape of the sunlight that slips through it. So let’s pick one that belongs to dawn. […]
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Radishes, Part 3
This past Saturday we held the Spring 2026 Radish Harvest. The weather was mild, the radishes were plump, and our team of harvesters was enthusiastic. The Helper-Chickens can identify the radishes at the peak of tubular plumpness. A good rinsing before bringing the radishes into the WLBOTT Test Kitchen. Post-Harvest Preparations Waggie Logos? We are […]
The WLBOTT Extension Service’s spring garden is doing well. Go Waggies! The radishes are the first crop to be harvested. Our top-notch agronomists have determined the commencement of the radish harvest season. Fred, our penitent intern, enthusiastically joined in the harvest, as our pep squad cheered him on. Go Waggies! We celebrate the harvest with […]
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Compost Heap
It’s been a busy few weeks at the WLBOTT Agricultural Extension Service (Go Waggies!). In addition to our usual duties that include repairs to the manure spreader, seed selections, and debates over crop rotation (“i before e except after c” gives us guidance: Idaho potatoes, Eggplant, Cucamelon[1]), we were wondering if it’s time to utilize […]
WLBOTT:Let’s start today by describing a truly random real life event. This morning I sent an email to a WLBOTT Elder describing a nice spaghetti dinner we recently had. For the first time in my life, I spelled “spaghetti” right on the first try. Since there are only so many combinations of letters in the […]
Most of the WLBOTT Elders’ CPU cycles are spent on upcoming naps, donuts, background defragmentation and existential dread. But lately we’ve been thinking about fairy tales. We’re attracted to their dream-like structure, the odd rewards and punishments, and the departure from the modern 3-act narrative. Also, they give an insight into what people valued. What […]
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Our Vinyl Collection
Let It Blott It’s a WLBOTT Day The Freewheelin’ Blott Born in a WLBOTT Cult WLBOTT Summer Holiday The Dark Side of WLBOTT Goodbye Polyester, Hello Twine Twine Meets Zeppelin WLBOTT Open Season WLBOTT Lonely Hearts Breakfast at the Ladle & Lube Whipped Twine Our Inspiration
Elder JimZim, accompanied by WLBOTT‘s Security Undersecretary Natasha X, recently visited the NSA’s National Crypological Museum in [redacted]. More information is available on their web site: https://www.nsa.gov/museum/ The Cray-2 A decommissioned Cray-2 computer is on display at the museum. The Gray-2 was optimized for scientific workloads: The Cray-2 Elder G nets out the “Then .vs. […]
You remember Sister Magdalene of the Open Window. She’s the headmaster at St. Gangulf Middle School, and sent us Fred, the Intern Penitent after the unfortunate Whoopee Cushion incident. By the way, Fred is doing fine, and has become a key player in our 2 hectare hybrid radish garden (assistant to the Operations Director). Go […]