Lives of the Elders – UC#3 Esteemed Elders – I know I have been light on WLLBOT contributions lately with all my travel and jet lag. But I offer you this blast from the past – one of my golf buddies was a IBM JCL and Panvalet nerd. He still uses a flip phone. Esteemed […]
[ed. note: UC#3 and UC#3-SU return from Japan.] Up with jet lag. Cleaned out eggs, cheese, rice, jalapeño and dubious ham from fridge and baked it up. Keeping with my mission to keep food waste from landfills and to test the scientific fact that you won’t get sick from spoiled food cooked above 165F (75C) […]
Here’s a “night in the life of an elder” story: It’s 4 AM and I am up for my two-hourly hobble around the house a few times to work the cramps out of the new knee. As I pass by the stairs that lead to the command centre, I can hear a faint, high-pitched tone. […]
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 […]
With a little help from HotPot.ai
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]