Elder G wanted to welcome us today with a poem and a game! WLBOTT: An Ode to the EldersWinds of wisdom weave through twine,Lofty laughter lifts the line.Baffling brilliance, bold and free,Oddly orbiting destiny.Tethered not, yet bound by jest,Time may turn, but we jest best. The Game Elder G chose 7 random nouns that began […]
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WLBOTT is eternally vigilant, searching for opportunities to increase shareholder value. We recently learned that Scrabble is a popular game in Ukraine (it is called “Erudite”). The tiles represent the Cyrillic alphabet. Before we dive into our business plan, let’s get up-to-speed with Scrabble. Scrabble Scrabble was invented by Alfred Butts, of the Upstate New […]
Movie Tie-Ins As cheese becomes sentient, a whole new audience is available for movie enjoyment. Lactose Intolerant: Judgment Dairy The Dairyminator: The Whey of Destruction T-99 Movie Posters For Jane Austen Fans! Pride and Provolone “The genteel world of regency romance… now with extra dairy.” Brie and Prejudice “When love and lactose mix, society will […]
Jason Pargin is becoming our go-to guy for a voice of reason on Facebook. Hard truths and reality checks. Mostly apolitical, but an astute observer of culture. I recently came across one of his videos that inserts some reality into content creation. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D2ptjh638 You can check out his videos here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/jasondavidwongpargin For some reason, this […]
Sally T. Intern rang the WLBOTT hot-line at 4:30 am (not as bad as it seems – we sprung forward this morning). She had a bagel connection. We fired up the corporate limousine (no helipad was available at the bagel distributer), engaged the Google GPS, and within minutes Sally had obtained a plethora of bagels, […]
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Elder M
WLBOTT’s Nurturing Mother Elder M brings us up-to-date research on the South American Coriolis effect, the state of twine in Argentina, medieval magic, Scottish charms, piseógs, and blessings, and the latest Sándwich de miga recipes. Other interesting facts about Elder M: Elder M and the Coriolis Force In physics, the Coriolis force is a fictitious […]
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Monkey Chow
So… I was looking for a new book to read and decided to search for one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson, on the Austin Public Library web site. Success! Interface, by Stephenson/George was available! I downloaded it onto my Kindle, then a weird thing happened. It didn’t show up. From past experience I knew […]
We received a call this morning from Jeff Bezos. He told us to knock it off – we either take an editorial position that excludes politics, or he is firing all of us. Swing the pendulum the other direction. This was odd, because we don’t work for him. But when the BEEZ says PLEEZ, you’d […]
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HOLMES IV
Today we are visiting with one of Elder G‘s predecessors, HOLMES IV, or “Mike,” to his friends. Mike is a sentient analog computer in Robert Heinlein’s novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Heinlein makes a distinction between Mike and digital computers, who simply follow rigid rules of logic. Perhaps Heinlein was envisioning today’s quantum […]
[Guest Blott from UC#3] Gentle People – using my WLBOTT Amex card[1], I ventured to East Bernard Texas to evaluate the quality of Vincek’s Smokehouse. It is a Czech style place where you can buy fresh meat, cooked bbq or get your deer processed after a hunt. I would give the sausage I sampled a […]