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The land, the people, the culture WLBOTT Corporate Work-Life Balance

The Lives of the Elders

Today we visit with the Elders of WLBOTT. UC#1 UC#1 is considering a bicycle trip to Beaverlodge, AB. UC#1 is also inventorying very large farm and construction equipment. May require moving a few things around in the garage. But I digress. Back to the farm tractors. Many years ago I spent some of my summer […]

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America Destinations

It’s as Safe as We Can Make It. You Signed the Waiver, Right?

[Thanks to Miss Cellania and Neatorama for pointing us down today’s rabbit hole.] One star hotel at four star prices! – Richard Neal, former owner and current ED of the Frying Pan Hotel. The scariest, and most dangerous, hotel is the Frying Pan Hotel, 32 miles off the coast of North Carolina atop the Frying […]

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Fine Arts Scandinavia Texas

Potpourri

[thanks to UC#1 and Spousal Unit, along with UC#3, the Thursday Morning Poetry Appreciation Circle, and Mother Nature for today’s BLOTT] ¡Que lluvia! First, thanks to Mother Nature: First rains in two and a half months, with 100°+ (F), (310.98°+ (K) during most of July and August. UC#1’s Spousal Unit may have had enough! The […]

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Canada The land, the people, the culture

There are Strange Things Done in the Midnight Sun

Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called “the Bard of the Yukon”. – Wikipedia Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called “the Bard of the Yukon”. His most famous work is probably the […]

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Meaning of Life Scholarship/Erudition

The Theological Implications of the Comma

Thanks to WLBOTT Chief Ethics Advisor UC#2 for today’s topic. Holy Wars have started over less…. [ed. note: Faith on the Fringe has some pretty good outside-the-box ideas] Super technically, I think we need to hold our horses for a while…. Anywho…. let’s get back to the comma….

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Meaning of Life Music

The Best Video on YouTube

UC#2 has reviewed over 500,000 videos and found the best entry on YouTube:

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Food Heros - NOT Late Stage Capitalism Music Texas Work-Life Balance

Not Haiku, and WLBOTT Predicts

In the year 2525, if academic scholars are still alive, WLBOTT predicts that the movie Office Space will be required viewing for all students studying the collapse of western civilization. Today we will limit our exploration of this movie to the sound track of the closing credits, “Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee”: Note that in this YouTube […]

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DPOMLATMIR Heros - NOT Late Stage Capitalism Work-Life Balance

Vortex of Immorality

[ed. note: “Vortex of Immorality” is a quote from Mark Dixon, referring to Unilever’s corporate behavior.] Today WLBOTT presents the first DPOMLATMIR[1] award. [1] DPOMLATMIR – Don’t Pee On My Leg And Tell Me Its Raining This is in response to an opinion piece by Catherine Bennett in yesterday’s Guardian. Ms. Bennett…. So…. Unilever, maker […]

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Food Late Stage Capitalism

Food (in quotes)

[Thanks to UC#3 for today’s topic] UC#3: I’m light on tour stop posts, so I’ll have to get to work on that. This is State Fair time in the US, so need to scout interesting exhibits to add to our list.  State Fair food is a target rich environment, but a bit like shooting fish […]

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Curated Absurdity Random Acts of WLBOTTness

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)