Here’s how it all started. Like many of you, I often wake way before sunrise with questions such as “Why do some animals have knees that bend backwards?” Reasonable question. Understandable. This leads us, more or less, to look at flamingos…. Flamingo Fun Facts: perilous predator protection Fun Facts from Wildlife Workshop: And from Folly […]
Category: Random Acts of WLBOTTness
Should we be concerned? We may be in the red zone here…..
We have received many, many inquires concerning how our BLOTTs come into existence. It is a very non-linear process that involves: Random web image search result for “non-linear thought process” Some beautiful images related to the image search for “practical applications of chaos theory” Simplicable In a real-life example of chaos theory, we stumbled upon […]
Ladies and gentlemen, To better serve our community, we’ve created our first WLBOTT Visitor Survey. About half the questions are original, the other half curated from the interwebs. Rules: Replies must be PG13, PG, G only. Spousal units, friends, relatives encouraged to participate. All published results will be anonymized. You can submit your responses via […]
Keepin’ things lite today…. Life is fulla pressure / life is fulla pain – Fr. Stan Let’s just take 5 and have some fun. Some more randomly cool stuff (mostly liberated from Bored Panda)
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…..
Today’s BLOTT has an interesting stream of consciousness. It started with a conversation with UC#3: “How hard can it be to tune your own piano?” [ed. note: very hard] Which led to…. Which somehow led to solving the seemingly easy, but actually really difficult problem: [from UC#3] I have spent many hours and actually have […]
Came across this hat on a walk this morning along an Austin nature trail…. Today feels like a Sunday morning on a Friday afternoon (nod to John Prine).