{"id":5713,"date":"2023-10-02T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2023-10-02T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:50:43","slug":"the-evolution-of-a-blott-from-museums-to-fear-of-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=5713","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of a BLOTT: from Museums to Fear of Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[UC#3]<\/span> Ladies and Gents – while we curate the exciting venues for our tour, I think it important to have a list of venues that we have visited but might want to exclude from our tour. I offer up the following museum That I found fascinating and recommended to several people, but everyone (including my family) found this to be the worst museum. Foucault\u2019s original pendulum, Pascal\u2019s first calculator\u2026. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Board, should we keep broad appeal in mind when we try to schedule venues – or should we keep the venues eclectic and just charge a high tour fee targeted to compensate for low demand? I\u2019d be interested in hearing \u2018worst museum\u2019 stories.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers<\/a> – Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The original Foucault pendulum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cl\u00e9ment Ader’s Avion III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65046

By PHGCOM – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=4668683

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UC#1 Weighs In<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So many things to work on right now! Africa adventures, learning how to avoid facial recognition, installing a new sound system at our church. I\u2019ll have to bow out of the museum discussion for now as I have nothing to contribute. This stems, of course, from my fear of museums<\/strong> \u2013 every time I get near one, I think they are going to keep me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ed. note: as part of our corporate employee assistance, we are analyzing UC#1’s fear of museums. At this point in our research, we encountered some conflicting information. One site claims that Musophobia as the fear of museums.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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[But the word Musophobia <\/em><\/strong><\/span>is most often associated with a fear of mice. We weren’t afraid of mice prior to seeing this picture, but we are now.]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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UC#4’s Response to UC#3’s Inquiry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

UC#2, in keeping with the Oktoberfest theme, would a Wurst museum<\/strong> fall into this category? The worst Wurst museum<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally would enjoy this museum. Many years ago, [spousal unit] and I went to Museum of Weights and Standards in (I think) Boulder. I was hoping to see the unit-teaspoon (not there, unfortunately<\/em>) but they had a lot of cool stuff about the (relatively new) atomic clock and WWV.
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Many factors go into WLBOTT<\/strong> destination recommendations.

Most factors are based on graft, kickbacks, pay-to-play, quid pro quos, payola<\/strong>[1]<\/sup>, etc.

However, a major factor is the quantity, quality, and proximity to buffets. I would imagine the museum in Paris would get a check in this department. (If all-you-can-eat, quantity serves as its own quality<\/em>[2]<\/sup>)
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[1]<\/sup>How did people get kick-backs prior to 1950?<\/p>\n\n\n

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WLBOTT Genesis: The Museum Connection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Is that a true story?”
“Well, it’s true that its a story.”<\/em>
   – No Country for Old Men<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the beginning, the Internet was a formless, shapeless, chaotic, barren, amorphous, hardscrabble void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People would ask each other, “you got any URLs?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mosaic and Netscape were as forbidden at IBM as any talk of unionization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People thought “Ask Jeeves” was pretty cool (and it was).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then arose WLBOTT<\/strong>, bringing order to the chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the original motivators of WLBOTT<\/strong> was the desire to research the SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota. Not only did the destination share the same name as the city-of-residence as UC#4, but a single mighty interstate (IH35) connected the two, and it can be driven in one NODOZE-fulled road trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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