The world was waiting for this?

 On ESPN's web site this morning is a college football uniform review. 

That's right. An article about the uniforms college teams will be wearing in today's games.

Who would possibly be interested in such silliness?

Link rot

I just removed a link from the Work Avoidance Hall of Fame because it didn't go anywhere any more. This may happen, occasionally, because some of those links have been there quite a while.

If you encounter a bad link there, sorry.

I would spend more time maintaining the list, but that would be work.

For the birds

A recent newsletter from the Washington Post concerning a bill now in Congress…a bill designed to help better distribute renewable energy around the country…refers to one Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) as a climate advocate, which is…I'm just assuming here…a person who is somehow in favor of climate.

And Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) as a climate hawk, which is…I'm just assuming here, too, from the context…something like a climate a advocate but birdier.

How have we come to say such silly stuff?

The Devil's work

Printers. Are.

Take my printer, for example. It's wireless. Any time there's the slightest hiccup in the network it goes into a coma and needs to be resuscitated brutally. Like that thing where they electrocute your heart to make it start again.

The irony is, I almost never print anything. I rarely do. And the network hiccups rarely and the printer goes into a coma rarely which is exactly when I want to print something.

See what I mean? 

The Devil's work.

This *always* cracks me up

 From an Xfinity (aka Comcast) advisory regarding possible affects on internet service of a hurricane headed our direction:

My Xfinity service is down. How can I find out when it will be back up?

You can check xfinity.com or the Xfinity app for outage information.

 This can be accomplished using smoke signals, drums, signal flags, or, if you're close enough, two tin cans and a long string.

Kiddies need some firepower too

9th Circuit rules California ban on marketing guns to minors is probably unconstitutional

“There was no evidence in the record that a minor in California has ever unlawfully bought a gun, let alone because of an ad,” or that “truthful ads about lawful uses of guns — like an ad about hunting rifles in Junior Sports Magazines’ Junior Shooters — encourage illegal or violent gun use among minors,” Lee wrote, and California cannot “lean on gossamers of speculation” to make such claims.

We are delighted to report

Fact check: Morocco earthquake not caused by 'laser weapon'

"Times of crisis are always a heyday for disinformation, misinformation and conspiracy myths," Lena Frischlich, a media psychologist at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and an expert on conspiracy theories, told DW.

 And, speaking of heydays, this from the World Economic Forum:

Most respondents to the 2022-2023 Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS) chose “Energy supply crisis”; “Cost-of-living crisis”; “Rising inflation”; “Food supply crisis” and “Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure” as among the top risks for 2023 with the greatest potential impact on a global scale (Figure 1.1). Those that are outside the top 5 for the year but remain concerns include: failure to meet net-zero targets; weaponization of economic policy; weakening of human rights; a debt crisis; and failure of non-food supply chains.

Up against some tough competition there, Dude

‘Just Ken’ no more? Barbie sidekick among 12 finalists for National Toy Hall of Fame

He is up against baseball cards, Battleship, bingo, Bop It, Cabbage Patch Kids, Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks, Connect 4, Little Tykes Cozy Coupe, Nerf, slime and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"Just Ken" is apparently the name of a song he sings in that woman's movie. 

Hey, honey, come on up and see my launchpads

North Korea’s Kim vows full support for Russia’s ‘sacred fight’ after viewing launchpads with Putin

"Putin welcomed Kim’s limousine…with a handshake that lasted around 40 seconds," reports the Associated Press.

Sounds a little kinky to me. And not in a good way.

On, Wisconsin!*

 

[Stolen from @OnlyInBOS, X]

*And those other two.

We don't need artificial intelligence to write stuff…

…but we may need AI to read it. 

This from an article currently online at Buzzfeed:

Note: Lex uses she/they pronouns so I've used them interchangeably throughout this piece.

Please. Make up your mind or make it go away.

Providing gas for the gaslight

I'm getting sick of that term, gaslight, but this morning the Washington Post ran a story…

At G-20, Biden announces ambitious corridor connecting India, Europe

…which noted:

Officials in the countries involved are expected within 60 days to come up with a timeline for the projects — linking energy grids, laying undersea and overland cables, and providing more digital connections. Some of the tasks involve installing hydrogen pipelines from Israel to Europe, which administration officials hope will advance clean energy goals.

 It would take them twenty years to run a hydrogen pipeline across this county, the county I live in, and probably the county you live in too, given all the regulations, environmental impact studies, protests by various citizens, and general tomfoolery involved.

What makes them think they can do it in Europe?

The coolest

Benedict Arnold burned a Connecticut city. Centuries later, residents get payback in fiery festival

“It’s wild to show the kids something like this,” [a woman from Mystic, CT] said. “You get to see it in real life, rather than see it play out on TV. They spend too much time on their screens today.”

The coolest part was “probably the head falling off,” said [her 9-year-old son]. “I really liked it.”