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WLBOTT Lite

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)

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Book Club Canada Food Meaning of Life

Crab Apples!

[Thanks to UC#1 for today’s post] After the fascinating expose on bovine transportation, and my natural curiosity on whether bovines twine, I decided to ‘think outside the box’ and look for other twine related areas.  The most obvious immediately popped into my head: crab apples! Here are a few photos of my latest crab apple […]

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Curated Absurdity Mildly Interesting Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Special:Random

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 […]

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Fine Arts The land, the people, the culture

Haiku: Great Art Inspires Great Art….

[thanks to UC#3 for his contribution] …. and the corollary is probably true, also. Former machinistModifies his vehicleTo haul his pet steer? Their once was a farmer from Nebraska Is he as looney as he seems, I ask ya?Driving a steer around in a Crown VicHope the steer doesn’t kick or get sick What’s next, driving around his […]

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Europe North America TechnoBLOTT The land, the people, the culture

Qaanaaq

Qaanaaq, Greenland, is one of the northernmost towns in the world. It has a population of about 646 people. It is one of the few place-names that is a palindrome. According to ChatGPT… How to get there…. The Airport El Supermercado Qaanaaq The supermarket is restocked twice a year. This photo is from a Mirror […]

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Antarctica TechnoBLOTT The land, the people, the culture

Antarctica Rocks!

Randomly got to talkin’ with UC#2 about meteorites in Antarctica. This was the result of a semi-sequitur from a recent BLOTT about paper clips, and the earliest known archaeological connection between people and iron was from found meteorites. Not knowing much about Antarctic meteorites, it seemed like an interesting BLOTT. As it turns out, as […]

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Mildly Interesting Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Random Acts of Wikipedia

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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Animal Kingdom WLBOTT Corporate

Sally Lightfoot

WLBOTT Division of Oceanic Research and Kinetics(WLBOTT-DORK) has just come across an extremely cool omnivorous crab. The Sally Lightfoot crab (Graspus graspus) is rumored to have been named after a Caribbean dancer, because they are agile and fast. – Neat-o-rama Basically this poor guy has to take a long day’s journey (when the tide is out) […]

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The Founders “Weigh In”

He-who-must-not-be-named will be photographed, fingerprinted, and, of most interest to the Elders of WLBOTT, weighed. We have a betting pool going. Prizes TBD. Price Is Right rules do not apply. Current positions: The Official Line We placed our guesses before the official line was established, and I’m surprised how close we all came:

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Animal Kingdom Random Acts of WLBOTTness

Beautiful Ugly

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 […]