So, a cool front blew through Austin yesterday. Not a blue northern. When a “cool” front blows thru Austin in August, it means: Weather Underground, Austin, Thursday, Aug 18th, 2023, 3:00pm. Note how the 0 mph (0 kph for our Canadian friends) wind is from the north. It’s pretty amazing how much water the air […]
Month: August 2023
I have just recently learned of the songwriters and performers Lou & Peter Berryman. Wow! Could they be part of our karass? They have a song called “Twine Boy“. Busy, busy, busy. When Did We Have Sauerkraut? – Peter Berryman , Lou Berryman Come on in and have a chairToday’s the day I clean the […]
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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: […]
We are honored (honoured) to award our first Twiny to Roy Zimmerman, who helped us all get thru the dark days of the pandemic with a smile, hope, and a bit of schadenfreude.
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Not Haiku
A Chat With Your Mother by Lou and Peter Berryman Oh, the pirates in their fetid galleons, daggers in their skivvies,With infected tattooed fingers on a blunderbuss or two;Signs of scurvy in their eyes, only mermaids on their minds;It’s from them I would expect to hear the F-word, not from you. Chorus (repeated after each […]
Thanks to Unindicted Co-conspirator #3 for today’s business plan. WLBOTT Elders et. al. – please feel free to create a BLOTT and I encourage others to add and contribute ideas to this business opportunity. Target a NY stock exchange IPO in late 2023. Ladies & Gents – I am at phase 1 of evaluating this […]
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So, What’s New?
Oh, not much…. I must admit, we’re a bit jealous. WLBOTT (currently) has under a dozen unindicted co-conspirators.
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 […]
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 […]
Conventional Artistic Medium As we work our way towards our featured artist and her unique medium, let’s first take a look at conventional art mediums. Conventional art mediums can have beautiful results. The include: Pastels, pencil, charcoal, chalk, oils, watercolors, acrylic…. Semi-sequitur: How to Draw a Sardine Unconventional Artistic Medium Artists are only limited by […]