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 […]
Month: January 2025
WLBOTT Corporate HeadquartersFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE2025-01-07 4:09AM CST WLBOTT declares a snow day. All corporate facilities will be closed with the exception of: A few notes on the WLBOTT locations: Please remain productive and consider how you will increase shareholder value today. Employee-Submitted Photos: Enjoying the Unpaid Snow Day Many dedicated and enthusiastic employees wanted to […]
[Part I of an ongoing series on the musician Wendy Carlos] During a recent staff meeting, we realized that we all shared a fascination with the work of Wendy Carlos, and were enthusiastic to look into her life, her work, and her influences. Veil of Orpheus As faithful readers of WLBOTT will recall, we’ve talked […]
And since we can leave no turn unstoned, we continue to reflect on Richard Linklater’s Before series (see yesterday’s BLOTT). Here is WLBOTT‘s attempt at our own Before series. Before Breakfast Before Lunch We opted for a picnic! Before Dinner Elder G sets the scene for us…. The scene opens in the WLBOTT communal kitchen, […]
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The Humble “Before”
Yesterday’s BLOTT (Everybody Loves Me, What About You?) leads naturally to a reflection on humility. Is it possible to combine humor and humility? (Our first humbleness failure may be assuming WLBOTT is funny.) But for the sake of argument, let’s make this assumption and move forward. There’s an interesting article titled “The Limits of Humility: […]
Everybody Loves Me Today we experiment with an AI Lyrical Abstraction ofDon McLean’s Everybody Loves Me. Fortune has me well in handArmies wait at my commandMy gold lies in a foreign landBuried deep beneath the sand The angels guide my every treadMy enemies are sick or deadBut all the victories I’ve ledHaven’t brought you to […]
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The Women of the Fields
Today we celebrate the dignity of labor – The Women of the Fields. The GleanersThe Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d’Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting […]
Shawn Phillips is a wise man, and today he posted these thoughts on the New Year. From his Facebook post: But I’m not alone on this earth so fairThere’s something else beside me hereSomething keeps me ever looking forwardAnd it’s brighter than the sunlightAnd it’s purer than the moonlightAnd it’s drawing me toward itLike a […]