Custom TextBox : What could be more fused than Asian donuts?
2022-03-26
Custom TextBox : Beer-drinking novice backpackers soon realize that it’s rarely worth it lugging all that extra weight around.
2022-02-12
Backpacking and Beer
Do you use Apple News on your iPad? I find it okay for reading straight news fom the NYT, WaPo, New Yorker, Atlantic, and others but there the app is just cluttered like walking through a garbage dump. It’s littered with 80% fluff pieces like the favorite fast food place in every state or the best place for sushi in every All, News, News of the Weird, Observations
Custom TextBox : What’s next – a device to steam boiling water?
2022-02-01
Removing Caffeine from Decaf Coffee
If you have to ask, then you need another cup of coffee. If you need to read articles like this to answer the question, then there’s really no hope. You need to get a life. All, Bizarro, Fun Stuff, Observations, Odd Products
Custom TextBox : Smartie Carts were unusable in International Arrivals halls as no one had any quarters to plug into the dispenser.
2021-11-06
Smart Carts
Back in the 60s-90s when I actuallly got paid for working, my jobs had me flying across the US and overseas. One of the first things I noticed at airport arrivals were machines that dispensed luggage carts. Drop in a couple quarters, and you could gather up your bags and cart them away. Anecdotes, Odd Products, Travel
Custom TextBox : If you’re asked to wear a mask, and you are already masked, whaddya do?
2021-10-10
News of the Weird
In Apple News (Sunday, October 10, 2021) =&0=& From Apple News (Sunday, October 10, 2021) iCloud, Cellebrite helped find text messages that brought down poaching ring All, Fun Stuff, News of the Weird, People
Custom TextBox : I’d rather spend my money on some fresh coffee beans!
2021-08-28
The Perfect Gift for the Barista who has Everything
Here’s the perfect gift for…well, I really don’t know. It’s the Compak Cube Automatic Tamper. It says that it takes the mess and stress out of coffee tamping. Well, I have a ten-dollar tamper that creates very little mess and certainly no stress. I’d be really stressed if the $800 device breaks within 20 years. All, Fun Stuff, Observations, Odd Products
Custom TextBox : Amateur baristas gotta have the latest glittering trinkets
2021-06-07
WDT Tool for Baristas
As my readers know, I get a lot of weird stuff in my email box. Today was something from Whole Latte Love, a coffee supply house where I occasionally shop. Today’s item was something called a WDT Tool (Weiss Distribution Technique, which is apparently a real thing) I had no idea what this $25 item was supposed to do so I All, Fun Stuff, Odd Products
Custom TextBox : A movie “easter egg” is a short visual for sharp-eyed viewer
2021-06-05
Movie Easter Egg
While viewing a short 3-star movie on YouTube, I noticed about 18 minutes in the following Easter Egg on the window of a restaurant: Quint’s We Do Our Business In Your Mouth. All, Easter Egg, Observations, Sign Failure
Custom TextBox : Using High school geometry to slice a pizza
2021-04-26
Pizza for Five
Noble Roman frozen pizza wants consumers to pentasect* the baked pie in order to meet recommended nutritional standards per item. Cutting it into four pieces would result in higher meaures of sodium, fats, and carbohydrates, whereas cutting into six pieces would mean skinny bite-sized slices, encouraging folks to grab another slice. Now the problem becomes one of how to slice the All, Bizarro, Fun Stuff, Observations, Way Out
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In case of fire, rescue the organist
In case of fire, rescue the organist
2020-11-16
An Organ So Hot, it Needs a Fire Extinguisher
I was recently watching some random YooToob video of an orchestra playing some work that featured an organ, when I captured this moment in a screen grab. What struck me most wasn’t the obvious fact that the fire extinguisher cabinet was empty, or why you would need to lock the fire extinguisher cabinet, but rather why would you need a All, Bizarro, Observations, Odd Mistake
Custom TextBox : Finding used food products on Amazon shows how truly awful the online store is
2020-11-10
Used Mustard on Amazon
I was recently browsing mustard varieties on Amazon and was quite surprised (not to mention disgusted) to find that among the filters on the left, was one where shoppers could choose either New or Used jars of mustard! It’s nice to know that we have choices. You’d think that those worthies whose job it is to make Amazon’s shopping experience All, Bizarro, Observations, Odd Mistake
Custom TextBox : Beware the next time you hear someone in the trombone section yell out, “Hey, y’all, watch this!”
2020-10-10
An Explosive Musical Moment
Paulo Esperanza, bass-trombonist with the Simphonica Mayor de Uruguay, in a misplaced moment of inspiration, decided to make his own contribution to the cannon shots fired as part of the orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture at an outdoor children’s concert. In complete seriousness he placed a large, ignited firecracker, which was equivalent in strength to a quarter stick of All, Bizarro, Music, Odd Mistake
Custom TextBox : Using High school geometry to slice a pizza
2020-04-26
Pizza for Five
Noble Roman frozen pizza wants consumers to pentasect* the baked pie in order to meet recommended nutritional standards per item. Cutting it into four pieces would result in higher meaures of sodium, fats, and carbohydrates, whereas cutting into six pieces would mean skinny bite-sized slices, encouraging folks to grab another slice. Now the problem becomes one of how to slice All, Fun Stuff, Observations, Way Out
Custom TextBox : We bring you the latest in New Journalism
2020-02-09
Writers Get Paid by the Word
We bring you the latest in New Journalism Today I was reading news articles on my iPad. I noticed that over the past week, every now and then there’s an article where the author appears to be paid by the word, based on the totally superfluous garbage used to set the scene, as if they were writing a play. Here’s All, Anecdotes, Stories
Custom TextBox : Startups do what startups gotta do
2020-01-28
Parking Spaces as Office Space
Only in San Francisco. These earnest entrepreneurs plug quarters into parking meters, set up a few tables and chairs, and rent “office” space by the half hour to those just getting their startups going. When I read this, I first thought it was a late April Fool joke, but apparently it’s true. Just keep plugging quarters into your parking meter All, Computors & Hi-tech, Fun Stuff, Observations
2020-01-27
Top Mold Doesn’t Match Waffle
How does that top mold make a waffle that looks like this? All, Bizarro, Odd Mistake
Custom TextBox : Important word order is
2019-12-22
Interesting turn of word order
The actual caption above the image of an egg stated: 34. This egg was laid by a chicken without a shell So how many chickens are running around still wearing their shells before they lay eggs? All, Bizarro, Language, Odd Mistake
