Things are not going well in russia. Multi-kilometer long gas lines. Empty grocery shelves. No diesel to irrigate, harvest or transport the fall harvest. Burning oil refineries. And now – an enormous Wildberries (the russian Amazon) facility has burned to the ground. The facility is listed as 188,000 m2, or about 46.46 acres acres. Wildberries […]
Yesterday, I plopped down on the official WLBOTT couch. On the TV was the Wimbledon Men’s Final. Recovering from the exhausting demands of my WLBOTT managerial duties, I had neither the will nor the energy to reach for the remote. But this led me to think: what sports would not be possible without modern material […]
I remember as a kid, sitting in our apartment on an Air Force base in Germany, listening to the radio. As I recall, we had one English language radio station, run by the military. There was a daily classical music program that I’d sometimes listen to, a refreshing window in an otherwise dark and empty […]
[Thanks to Elder JimZim for today’s exploration.] Elder G2 (Gemini) Analysis Currently on display in the home of Elder JimZim. Tours available for groups of 5 or more. Contact him directly for more information. And AI says this is Dominican monks singing this “exact chant”. – Elder JimZim. We Explore GregoBase GregoBase: a must for […]
Anyone remember the Holland Tulip Bubble? You may have been very young then – it occurred in February of 1637. It was a cold, dreary day, as I recall. Sadly…. The original Semper Augustus tulip bulb is extinct and cannot be purchased. Famous as the most expensive tulip in history, its signature red-and-white flame pattern […]
At WLBOTT, we enjoy a variety of religious experiences. For the most part, as long as our primary allegiance is to twine and shareholder value, we encourage our flock to seek their own path to truth. A few exceptions apply: we find dogmatic atheists and evangelical, magaT Christians to be equally tedious and stultifying[1]. And […]
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 […]
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 […]