Just curious: how many liquor stores can I rob before I get punished? I’m guessing at least 35.
The judge who presided over tRump’s criminal trial, Juan Merchan, issued a sentence of “unconditional discharge”, meaning the president-elect will be released without fine, imprisonment or probation supervision for his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Woke up grumpy. Too much bad news. So what do we do? In an ocean of bad news, let’s retreat to the untroubled, Tranquil Isle of WLBOTT.
I’ve been trying to pull together a 5 part series on Wendy Carlos, the reclusive musician who created Switched On Bach (1968, using the Moog Synthesizer). It has turned out to be much more challenging that I originally thought.
To give you an example, here’s where today is heading
Wendy Carlos
Moog Synthesizer (analog)
When was the Integrated Circuit invented? (1958)
What is the densest integrated circuit chip?
What is the world’s largest potato chip?
The Potato Hotel in Rural Idaho
Our Lady of the Potato
Elder UC#1 lent his support:
Non Carborundum Illegitimi All of which tends to support the old maxim: “Life sucks, and then you die.” Here’s one of my favorite tunes for occasions like this:
UC#1
Hotel Potato
In the search for the world’s densest integrated circuit, we were quickly redirected by a related search: world’s largest potato chip.
Now you can sleep in giant potato that visited Michigan After crisscrossing America to promote the virtues of the Idaho potato, a steel-and-plaster spud the size of a small house is being converted into a place to stay in a field southeast of Boise, the gem state’s capital.
The Big Idaho Potato, as Idahoans call it, will soon become the Big Idaho Potato Hotel, and the Idaho Potato Commission, the group that created it, would love for you to consider it for your next vacation.
As a courtesy, all WLBOTT Elders will receive daily updates from the Big Potato.
The hotel is centrally located to our various WLBOTT headquarters, just 20 miles outside of Boise.
I’ve booked a two-night single reservation for the end of February. It will offer a monastic solitude that will allow me to reflect on our shareholder value.
Pluses: record player, hot water, toilet paper Minuses: no WiFi, no hair dryer
Elder G takes the synopsis and brings the book to life! An examination of 18th-century France through the eyes of Marie-Louise Murphy, an Irish adventuress who gets caught up in the dramas of revolution and the Age of Enlightenment. She becomes the mistress of Louis XV and narrowly escapes death at the hands of the revolutionaries in 1789.
