WLBOTT welcomes all Newcomers to Planet Earth! November 2nd, 2023 To help you get started, here are some fun facts from history for November 2nd. 1755 You share a birthday with Marie-Antoinette, the queen consort of King Louis XVI of France (1774–93). First of all, what is a “queen consort”? A queen consort is the […]
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Book Club: the WLBOTT Equation
Our readers may be familiar with the Drake Equation. Basically, you plug numbers into an equation to determine the probability of having friends and neighbors in the Milky Way. where N = the number of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on the current past light […]
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R5-D4 moves!
[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]
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UC#3 IRL
WLBOTT HR has granted UC#3 S/UIRL[1](pronounced /səˈrēəl/), but he leaves us with the following non-haiku limerick: There once was a man named Jerry He farmed a bog full of cranberry Every morning he put on his hip waders And would sell his harvest to OceanSpray traders But he secretly only enjoyed pie made of blueberry […]
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Ozoni / Mochi
It all began with a work assignment from board member and Senior Elder UC#3: [UC#3]Much more work to do for WLBOTT: and connections between food and culture/religion [UC#3]And the mochi thing is real: Four women die in Tokyo after choking on ‘mochi’ rice cakes | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis [UC#1-SU]Can […]
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The 2000 Watt Society
A concept brought up in Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel The Ministry for the Future is the 2000 Watt Society. With its emphasis on scientific accuracy and non-fiction descriptions of history and social science, the novel is classified as hard science fiction. – Wikipedia The 2000-watt society is a real thing. Much of the novel is […]
UC#3 sent us down a delicious rabbit hole when he suggested we research the dangers of eating Ozoni soup on New Year’s Day in Japan which causes choking deaths from the gelatinous mochi ball. Many of these images were liberated from My Modern Met (more below). Konel Bread More liberation from My Modern Met: Toast […]
UC#1 Back when I was considerably smaller than I am now, my dad set up an electric train for me and my sibs. Our house had only a partial basement – for the front half of the house it was only partially excavated leaving a space big enough for kids to play in. Dad took […]
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Lent Prep
We’re preparing our 2024 Lenten menu, and the question of corned beef came up. [Michael] O’Leary will enjoy his corned beef on Friday with a clear conscience — thanks to a special dispensation from another Irish-American, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee. Dolan is among dozens of bishops — from Green Bay, Wis., to Arlington, Va., […]
Here’s how it all started. Like many of you, I often wake way before sunrise with questions such as “Why do some animals have knees that bend backwards?” Reasonable question. Understandable. This leads us, more or less, to look at flamingos…. Flamingo Fun Facts: perilous predator protection Fun Facts from Wildlife Workshop: And from Folly […]