5.27.2023

That guy who keeps pushing the rock up a hill…

Sherpa guide who climbed Mount Everest a record 28 times says he’s not ready to retire

“I will continue to climb as long as my body allows,” the 53-year-old guide told reporters after arriving from the mountain at Kathmandu’s airport, where he was given a hero’s welcome by supporters and family members.

…doesn't his liver get eaten by a crow? Or his eyes pecked out? Something like that? The guy with the rock? Ick.

Maybe this sherpa guy should quit while he's ahead.

5.26.2023

If I had a new $500M yacht I'd pay attention*

Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

According to the research group GTOA, which tracks populations of the Iberian orca sub-species, the incident follows at least 20 interactions this month alone in the Strait of Gibraltar between small vessels and the highly social apex predators. In 2022, there were 207 reported interactions, GTOA data showed.

Attacking Spain and Portugal and spying on Norway (see below): Are they trying to tell us something? 


*Looking at you, Jeff.

Do they have hot showers? WiFi?

Always wanted a lighthouse? US is giving some away, selling others at auction

The four lighthouses being sold at auction include Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light, a 50-foot (15.5-meter) steel tower dating to 1911 that is only accessible by boat but has spectacular views of the city skyline.

The others are Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Fairfield, Connecticut; Stratford Shoal Light in the middle of Long Island Sound between New York and Connecticut; and Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light in Chassell, Michigan.

Wait a minute!

Aliens Are Probably Using Drones and AI to Spy on Us, Stanford Professor Says

He cited increased government attention on the matter of UFOs, including the establishment of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to investigate sightings of what the U.S. government now calls Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs. Nolan said that one of the goals of this group was to establish a whistleblowing office for individuals who have worked to reverse-engineer alien objects, allowing them to talk to Congress.

Allowing who to talk to Congress? Or what? This could expain everything!

[The story is paywalled at Popular Mechanics and also available at Apple News.]

Meanwhile, in other spy news…

Norway warns residents to stay away from friendly whale suspected as Russian ‘spy’


They're everywhere.