[Thanks to Sally the Intern for today’s inspiration!] Today we visit Eagle Pass, Texas! Getting There The Cowgirl of Eagle Pass: Connie Reeves Among the list of notable Eagle Passeans is Connie Reeves. This is the most Texas thing you’ll read all day. Cowgirl Connie Reeves dies at the age of 101 after being thrown […]
Kilgore Trout is a fictional character in Kurt Vonnegut’s books: He seems to be Vonnegut’s alter ego, and often represents the pure artist. Lots of interesting background and trivia in the Wikipedia article: And for our friends working in the Rare Book section of the Vatican Library: The arts are not a way to make […]
I thought I was going to successfully complete my voyage on Spaceship Earth without having to deal with John Milton, but no. However, it turned out to be a pretty interesting experience. I was recently introduced a section of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, where Satan seduced Eve. Art derived from Paradise Lost Gustave Doré We’re […]
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 […]
Thanks to WLBOTT Chief Ethics Advisor UC#2 for today’s topic. Holy Wars have started over less…. [ed. note: Faith on the Fringe has some pretty good outside-the-box ideas] Super technically, I think we need to hold our horses for a while…. Anywho…. let’s get back to the comma….
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[Thanks to UC#1 for today’s post] After the fascinating expose on bovine transportation, and my natural curiosity on whether bovines twine, I decided to ‘think outside the box’ and look for other twine related areas. The most obvious immediately popped into my head: crab apples! Here are a few photos of my latest crab apple […]
Bob Dylan’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue has always fascinated me. I liked the seeming disjointed word-play and odd imagery. The line “take what you have gathered from coincidence” seems to pop into my head at odd times. I’d always thought it meant something like… It’s All Over Now Baby Blue by Bob Dylan […]
This conundrum[1] has been rattling around in my brain for a while…. I can’t find a good explanation why this line of reasoning is faulty. [1] Or is it? The Hangman’s Paradox and Free Will Is there something we can learn about free will from The Hangman’s Paradox? First we’ll need two volunteers. ChatGPT to […]
So, a cool front blew through Austin yesterday. Not a blue northern. When a “cool” front blows thru Austin in August, it means: Weather Underground, Austin, Thursday, Aug 18th, 2023, 3:00pm. Note how the 0 mph (0 kph for our Canadian friends) wind is from the north. It’s pretty amazing how much water the air […]