[ed. note: my apologies to the Elders. Although they provided me with a plethora of great ideas for today’s BLOTT, I got hung up on the energy requirements for our WLBOTT time machine. This lapse may be reflected in my upcoming performance review.] [As you recall, the purpose of the WLBOTT Time Machine is to […]
Category: Mildly Interesting
We were saddened to recently learn of the passing of Jerrold Laurence Samuels (May 3, 1938 – March 10, 2023), better known as Napoleon XIV Jerrold was probably best known for his 1966 top-40 hit “They’re Coming to Take Me Away Ha Haaa!” “Half a million copies in five days.” = 500,000 / (5 * […]
We have had many, many inquires[1] as to how we select topics for our BLOTTs. One technique is to use the Special:Random feature of Wikipedia. [1] Well, one person acted kinda curious, but they may have just wanted us to go away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Methodology Selection Criteria Would this Wiki page, in and of itself, make […]
You can issue the following link to get a random Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Admittedly, this qualifies as mildly interesting. Today’s BLOTT represents a curated sample of perhaps 200 random pages. It’s been that kind of Sunday…..
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Magic Number: 11780
[for reference purposes and future generations: 11,780 is the number of votes trump tried to coerce Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change.] Had an interesting chat with chatGPT: [me] Could you tell me some interesting properties of the number 11780? [chatGPT] Certainly! Here are some interesting properties and facts about the number 11,780: […]
Shallow dive of the Paper Clip. What are the made of?come on…. Quora…. not again….. Stars are born Let’s start at the very beginning….. The universe didn’t just wake up one day and say, “Here’s some iron. Let’s get to work on those paper clips!” First it had to have it’s big bang, and since […]
Our WLBOTT visitors are busy people. You don’t have time to endlessly scour the Internet for memes. To provide value to our shareholders, we perform this task for you.
Today, I am the egg man. You are the egg man. We are the egg man.Hoy, soy el hombre huevo. Eres el hombre huevo. Somos el hombre huevo. [ed. note: UC#4 is trying to learn Spanish] Total Consumption Per Capita Back of the envelope Calcs Key take-aways: Fun Facts From the Old Farmer’s Almanac…. It’s […]
Unindicted co-conspirator #2 called from Oslo to ask the following question: Here’s a simple-sounding problem: Imagine a circular fence that encloses one acre of grass. If you tie a goat to the inside of the fence, how long a rope do you need to allow the animal access to exactly half an acre? – Quanta […]