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 […]
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Price Courage
The New York Times has an interesting article on the “Price Courage” of huge corporate poultry processors – they had the gizzards and guts and gumption to band with their fellow middle men to refuse wage increases to their workers and unilaterally raise the price of chickens. And of course, this being ‘Merica, they got […]
We came upon an interesting phrase in yesterday’s BLOTT: the “library of last recourse”. In the context of the Boston Public Library, this means “all adult residents of the state are entitled to borrowing and research privileges”. But it can also have a darker meaning. A University of Alabama research project uses the phrase in […]
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Big news at OpenAI – shakeup in the management team yesterday. But I think mainstream media is missing the real lead – what about the calamitous coiffure crisis at OpenAI? Calamitous Coiffures, Part I This showed up for the Google Image search of “Coiffure Crisis”. WLBOTT Wonders: Why is Macron wrapped in bacon? Calamitous Coiffures, […]
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In celebration of the Lives of the Elders, the following have be approved by the WLBOTT Ministry of Virtue and Vice. [UC#3] A man named [UC#1] got a new knee For awhile, he’ll have to use a Zimmer to go pee Hoping the pain in his knee will reduce in size And the doctors bills […]
Interesting article in today’s New York Times concerning carbon capture. The first US commercial carbon capture plant (Heirloom Carbon Technologies) went on-line in California. This reminds me of an Onion article: “Top 10 Products to Battle Consumerism.” Kim Stanley Robinson, in The Ministry for the Future, give us so much to think about: It is […]
[Thanks to UC#1 for his philately[1]] [1] WLBOTT learns something new: DPR [North] Korea WLBOTT learns something new: we weren’t aware that North Korea had stamp technology! Iran WLBOTT learns something new: Cuba WLBOTT learns something new: Cuba is home to the smallest bird in the world – the bee hummingbird (from Fact Animal) Ecuador […]