Due to a series of mishaps, missteps, malfeasants, misadventures, and a few misdemeanors, WLBOTT is forced to cancel its sponsorship of the Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The first misstep involved our product placement and a spelling error. Turns out “bowl” and “bowel” are two separate and distinct concepts. We […]
Category: Adventures of the Elders
Lafcadio Hearn’s short story, Mujina, from Kwaidan – Stories and Studies of Strange Things, depicts a creepy Japanese supernatural creature called a noppera-bō, or mujina. No-Face / Spirited Away No-Face is a fascinating character in the Japanese animated film Spirited Away. Insightful article on Comic Book Resources: The CBR is a pretty cool web site. […]
Big shout-out to Sally T. Intern and UC#4-SU for completing the first WLBOTT jigsaw puzzle! The ladies used the devastating 1/4″ Central Texas blizzard to focus on this 1,000 piece challenge. The Puzzle Progress The Source Image Runner-Up Designs
So, Sally T. Intern has come into possession of a large quantity of oat milk ice cream (though legal means, of course!) Sally T. works at a hospital with a lot of employees. They get free ice cream on paydays. But some of the ice cream was made with oat milk, and nobody wanted it! […]
UC#3 We finally heard back from UC#3. He is in a remote enclave just off the Chesapeake Bay, protecting his oyster investments, when the storm arrived. Unfortunately, UC#3 misunderstood the concepts of oyster farming and oyster beds. This led to a financial downturn. However, it did free him up to pursue an innovation in snow […]
The ancient game Senet has become the go-to game at the WLBOTT barracks. The game over 4,500 years old. Senet or senat (Ancient Egyptian: romanized: znt, lit. ’passing’; cf. Coptic ⲥⲓⲛⲉ /sinə/, ‘passing, afternoon’) is a board game from ancient Egypt that consists of ten or more pawns on a 30-square playing board. The earliest representation […]
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Cabbage Rolls
At the WLBOTT Test Kitchen and Tractor Lube Station, we are continuing our journey into the Twelve Dishes of Ukrainian Christmas. Yesterday, we made cabbage rolls, which is our current favorite. Our starting point was based on a recipe from All Recipes. Ingredients (slightly modified from the All Recipes version) Directions [1] The temperature setting […]
Today we made another traditional Ukrainian dish, suggested by my ENGin buddy. The dish, Pea Cutlets / Січеники з гороху, is a simple recipe using dried peas. We found a recipe on the delightful Ukrainian food site Shuba. At the WLBOTT Test Kitchen, the Ladle & Lube, we made two executive decisions: Thoughts / Reflections […]
My Ukrainian ENGin buddy shared the twelve traditional dishes served on Christmas Eve. We are going to see how many we can make at the WLBOTT Test Kitchen and Tractor Lube Station. The menu: I’ll have to check with my buddy, but I believe that “Lenten” in this context means “vegetarian.” Lenten borscht — Пісний […]