Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum Let’s celebrate a good guy today. We’ve had 10 years of raw sewage dripping into our ears and eyes. Let’s refresh our mental pallet with a good guy, Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover. Shortly after returning to Earth, Victor greeted a child with Down syndrome (the reporter’s daughter). Who is Victor […]
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Gleaning
Gleaning is a fascinating topic. It intersects poverty and plenty, generosity and greed, the struggles of the most poor pitted against the wealthy and powerful. In its most basic sense, gleaning is the act of collecting leftover agricultural products after the farmer has completed the harvest. There is always some corn or beans or wheat […]
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Estonia’s Kärdla Meteorite
Long before dinosaurs, before forests, even before WLBOTT instituted its Work/Life Balance program, there was The Meteorite. This is before Estonia was even in the northern hemisphere! By the way, during the neolithic era, Estonia was known simply as “Stonia”. It wasn’t until the tech boom of the late ’90s that the country became known […]
One of the first questions asked by the WLBOTT Elders is: Will There Be a Buffet? To satisfy this buffet desire, and in honor of our series on ancient Estonia, we created Ordovician Day at the WLBOTT Ladle & Lube. These are delicacies that would have been available at the time of the Kärdla Meteor […]
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Estonia, Part 1
Connecting the Bagpipe Dots Recently at WLBOTT HQ, the pipes, the pipes were calling. We tasked the research department with exploring the history of the bagpipe, and, being unpaid and of short attention spans, they entered into a somewhat convoluted rabbit hole that led us to isostatic uplifts, ancient meteors, a Mesopotamian Sun God, a […]
WLBOTT:Let’s start today by describing a truly random real life event. This morning I sent an email to a WLBOTT Elder describing a nice spaghetti dinner we recently had. For the first time in my life, I spelled “spaghetti” right on the first try. Since there are only so many combinations of letters in the […]
We are considering welcoming Baba Yaga into our WLBOTT community. She had a WLBOTT vibe before it was so very cool to be WLBOTT. As you’ve seen from our recent blotts, Baba Yaga has taken steps to rehabilitate her image – vegan alternatives to eating children, getting dental care for her iron teeth, etc. What […]
If there’s one place that’s massively out of touch with American reality, it is the new New Car Dealership. Nero fiddles while Rome burns. The Ford Espinaca The Chevy Empanada Honda Limón The Peligrosa For our MAGAt Visitors The Ford Pendejo And for the Lady MAGAts, the Estupida Free Coffee!
Elder JimZim, accompanied by WLBOTT‘s Security Undersecretary Natasha X, recently visited the NSA’s National Crypological Museum in [redacted]. More information is available on their web site: https://www.nsa.gov/museum/ The Cray-2 A decommissioned Cray-2 computer is on display at the museum. The Gray-2 was optimized for scientific workloads: The Cray-2 Elder G nets out the “Then .vs. […]
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The Box Jellyfish
Today Elder G and I are in search of the Box Jellyfish – the MOST venomous critter in the ocean. Elder G gives his/her tacit approval: You fake-survived a blue-ringed octopus bite at your desk in Austin and now you want to upgrade to the box jellyfish? I respect the escalation. This is classic WLBOTT […]