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Canada Food Heros Scholarship/Erudition Will there be a buffet?

Hacketts Cove, Novia Scotia

Yesterday’s visit to the Atlantic Sea Cucumber, Ltd. motivated us to take a look at the surrounding neighborhood. Hacketts Cove, Nova Scotia, is absolutely stunning. Hacketts Cove and Peggy’s Cove are just down the road from Halifax. Some photos from real estate sites…. William E deGarthe Memorial Monument William E. deGarthe carved this “lasting monument […]

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Animal Kingdom Canada Food

Promoting Awareness: Sea Cucumbers

This is part of an ongoing WLBOTT series: Weird Foods We’ve Eaten. Sea Cucumber Fun Facts Dude…. Habitat Bottom of the sea…. Defense Mechanism Marauding herds of Sea Cumbers Do we need to put this on our list of anxieties? Yes. Yes we do. The Canadian Connection: Rosalyn/Atlantic Sea Cucumber Company As it happens, as […]

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Canada Curated Absurdity Current Events The land, the people, the culture

The Founders Weigh In

WLBOTT is truly blessed to have founders whose sole focus is avoiding litigation and increasing shareholder value. Today we celebrate their recent contributions. UC#1.c (a.k.a. Sally the Intern) From a recent WLBOTT team building exercise in NYC: UC#1 Our founder UC#1, who is a member of the commonwealth, had to gently correct me – I […]

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Canada Destinations Food Music

Moving to Newfoundland

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s BLOTT. You are more than welcome to emigrate to Canada.  Here’s a simple guide for you:  https://www.canadim.com/immigrate/move-to-canada/move-from-united-states/ [1] Now, a few points of clarification: One other thing to consider:  as a US citizen, you are required to pay US taxes, no matter how hard you try to disappear […]

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America North America TechnoBLOTT

Windy Martha

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #3 for today’s topic. Windy Martha sounds like either a cocktail or a digestive condition. But today, let’s look at the massive wind project off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard: Vineyard Wind. This is kind of corporate Rah-Rah, but it’s still pretty cool…. Fun Facts Carbon Cost Let’s say that this […]

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America Canada Fine Arts Food

Tides, Waves, and Vinegar

Started writin’ this BLOTT about Big Tide and Internal Waves, ended up writin’ it about Oil and Vinegar and an incredibly cool cycloid drawing machine. Kris Kristofferson / The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 Started writing this song about Chris Gantry, end of writing about Dennis Hopper, Johnny Cash, Norman Norbert, Funky Donnie Fritts, Billy Swan, Bobbie […]

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America Europe Heros

America Supports Ukraine

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Canada Destinations Meaning of Life

How to Live a Good Life

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #3 for today’s topic. In the following, substitute all occurrences of “curling” with “life”. This video has been produced by Curling Canadawith support from the World Curling Federation’s Development Assistant Programme Will there be a Buffet? I think my Chat buddy is thinking, “what should curlers eat?” rather than “what do […]

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America Scholarship/Erudition Uncategorized

The Root of all Goodness

Had an interesting chat with my pal chatGPT this morning…. Turns out, as it was meant to turn out, that the full article can be found on the wright-brothers.org page. Mr. Root, it is our honor/honour to present you with the Medal of the Royal Order of WLBOTTness. Medina and A.I. Root Today A.I. Root […]

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America Destinations North America

Norway (Maine)

Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #1 for today’s post. Norway, in Maine, not the one adjacent to Sweden. Interesting town, if only because of their new 1 MW solar project built on top of a contaminated old landfill site. This news comes to me via email from UGE International, a company traded on the TSE. Through […]