[Just don’t die.]Never Use Alone is a safe drug use hotline which has one simple goal: to prevent people who are using drugs from dying.Link: https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/overdose-drugs-fentanyl-opioid-never-use-alone.html | Continue reading
[I have lived to see the day.] When Apple released iOS 17 last Monday, we entered a glorious future. No longer must we live in a world where a so-called “smartphone” is only capable of running a single timer at once. With the latest update, it’s now possible to set multiple timer … | Continue reading
[Don’t Hornets Open Inside]It seems probable that instant karma recently came for a vacuum thief in Philadelphia.Link: https://6abc.com/hornet-theft-shop-vac-stolen-philadelphia-bee-company-malvern/13831571/ | Continue reading
[It’s a simple and compelling explanation for how Elon Musk has made it this far.]A decade ago, I had a fairly positive impression of Elon Musk as the real-world version of Tony Stark. However, in the intervening years, the man has shown himself to be tremendously flawed. Worse, … | Continue reading
[Try to make sure you’ve got your affairs in order within the next 249 million years or so.]Horrible news, reader! Up to 92% of Earth could be uninhabitable to mammals in 250 million years, researchers predict. The planet’s landmasses are expected to form a supercontinent, drivin … | Continue reading
[Unfortunately for Haaning, he didn’t quite get away with this.]This fine web publication previously highlighted the story of artist Jens Haaning, and his piece entitled “Take the Money and Run”. Commissioned to recreate some of his previous works that displayed real currency, Ha … | Continue reading
[I suppose any baseball fan can appreciate this, not just fans of the regrettable Angels.] Last month, baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani cranked a long fly ball in the first inning of a game against the Mets. Though the shot missed being a home run by a few feet, it did break part … | Continue reading
[There’s a limit on how much crushing is reasonable in one day.] Recently, I had an exceedingly active morning. It started with an early tennis match, which was followed by a very long run. Shortly before noon that same day, my Apple Watch hit me with this coaching message: The … | Continue reading
[How would YOU react if a spacecraft deliberately smashed into you?]Last year, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. It was a good thing. Nearly a year has passed since NASA deliberately crashed a $300 million spacecraft into an asteroid. In a first-of-its-kind … | Continue reading
[“That’s not a twist-off…”] Harvard University sits in the middle of Cambridge, just across the river from Boston. One of the most well-known landmarks on campus is this sculpture of John Harvard: [Photo credit: dog97209] Except, well, it isn’t a sculpture of John Harvard at all. … | Continue reading
[So he’s got that going for him.]NASA astronaut Frank Rubio was supposed to spend six months in space. Things did not quite work out that way, with Rubio’s return delayed by half a year. I’ve been finding myself alternating between horror and bemusement at how that might have pla … | Continue reading
[Kim Davis has reached the “Find Out” portion of the proceedings.]Eight long years ago, contemptible (now-former) Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis gained national prominence when she refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Rather than either performing her duties or resigning … | Continue reading
[“Reconditioned food” is another horrifying thought.]After the third recent incident of Trader Joe’s needing to recall food because it had non-food in it, it seemed clear that this issue was more common than I had previously realized. Recently, friend-of-the-site Oliver Y. passed … | Continue reading
[Exactly how many people, at how many levels, approved this?]Here’s a tip for other business owners out there: Never forget to avoid using 9/11 in your advertising.Link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/business/draftkings-9-11-never-forget-parlay-apology/index.html | Continue reading
[I also like them to live for more than 10 hours.]Over on Mars, NASA has been generating oxygen. That’s very cool! When the Perseverance rover touched down on Mars in February 2021, one of the instruments it carried was a 40-pound, microwave-sized device called the Mars Oxygen In … | Continue reading
[Simpsons did it.]Thanks to reader Chris M., I can now advise my readers to watch out, because Trader Joe’s Multigrain Crackers with Sunflower and Flax Seeds may contain metal. The product has no been recalled, at least the third such recall in just over a month. I suspect the ex … | Continue reading
[Jack Johnson says don’t let your dreams be dreams, but I dunno.]Friend-of-the-site Alex S. passed along the bizarre story of a man named Reza Baluchi trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic. This is the vessel in question: It doesn’t exactly look like the kind o … | Continue reading
[26.2 miles IS really far, though.]One need look no further than the infamous Rosie Ruiz to know that people cheat in marathons. Nowadays, however, timing mats placed along the course can at least verify that runners correctly crossed various checkpoints. Marathon course-cutting … | Continue reading
[Per Futurama, we do know that Ford has never felt voting to be all that essential to the process.] This morning, my pal Amy Jane pointed me to a tidbit from a mostly-unrelated story about one of Donald Trump’s many lawyers, Evan Corcoran. Please enjoy this peculiar image: [W]hil … | Continue reading
[ Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol, you’ll see porn on the double! ]Recently, Lidl issued an “urgent recall” of packages of Paw Patrol snacks. While the food itself is fine, a URL listed on the packaging is “not suitable for child consumption”. Lidl has urgently recalled Paw Patrol snacks … | Continue reading
[I would definitely have liked to see that.]I don’t have much interest in the British royal family, but I do love a good corgi, so I can get on board with a parade of corgis in honor of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/20 … | Continue reading
[Also, koi remain overpriced.]Over in England, at the Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, one hungry otter has managed to eat $125,000 worth of koi. Mr Nelson said it was “definitely a surprise to find that an otter was the culprit for our huge loss of fish”. It would not a surprise long-ti … | Continue reading
[“Do you, Sir? Well, for sure!”] Reader, I groom my eyebrows. A quiet ritual I have: a trimmer and I are alone present. Well, that and the constant fear of Mona Lisa-ing myself.1 You see, every few months, I notice that a couple of stray eyebrow hairs have grown longer than the r … | Continue reading
[Or more likely, are the machines just not very good?]A few years back, Major League Baseball mandated that all stadiums have metal detectors to prevent attendees from bringing in weapons. After a recent shooting at a Chicago White Sox game, their effectiveness must surely come i … | Continue reading
[Hey, look, ivermectin is good for something in humans!]The next time I’m having a bad day, I’m going to think to myself “At least there’s not a three-inch-long parasitic worm normally found in pythons in my brain”.1 Oh, my stars and garter snakes! It was a fairly regular day on … | Continue reading
[For the record, however, Price is Right rules for general guessing/estimating are terrible and should not be used.]Bob Barker almost made it to 100. He died this past weekend, just a few months shy of becoming a centenarian. In addition to being the host of beloved sick day clas … | Continue reading
[Hopefully the spigot of creativity isn’t clogged.]Does it matter where one writes? Around the country, house museums related to famous writers are selling authors the ability to write in the same place as literary greats. That [$300] rental fee is part of Arrowhead’s new program … | Continue reading
[“I’m shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.”]In news that is not-at-all surprising, yet still shocking, it seems Yevgeny Prigozhin has died in a plane crash. This is much more comprehensible to me than last month’s meeting, or the original aborted mutiny in June. Prigozhin wa … | Continue reading
[I have contempt for this decision.] In 2022, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles rejected approved approximately 15,000 vanity license plates, but rejected 897. Axios has a look at a few. The reasons for rejection for some are obvious, but I would fight against this: YU … | Continue reading
[This is probably a very poor platform for ads.]Back in 2014, a band called Vulfpack earned $20,000 with silence. In 2018, a random Buglgarian playlist might have scammed Spotify for millions. Now, “white noise podcasts” are apparently the hot new Spotify moneymaker. The worst pa … | Continue reading
[Spectifically, something monstrous.]I’ve never found the idea of a cruise ship vacation unappealing. Whether its norovirus or COVID-19, there’s probablys ome kind of virus on board, and it just doesn’t seem like a way I’d like to travel.1 Obviously, however, millions of other pe … | Continue reading
[Plenty of grease, though.]Just remember, if they don’t call you “Hon”, it’s not a real diner.Link: https://www.today.com/food/people/couple-makes-mission-visit-every-diner-in-new-jersey-rcna97963 | Continue reading
[“t” is apparently better than “V”]Back in 2019, I wrote about Eliud Kipchoge’s remarkable sub-2 hour marathon. In addition to Kipchoge’s remarkable skill, that feat was assisted by a strategy of pace runners off of whom he could draft. Now, researchers with access to a wind tunn … | Continue reading
[Owners of 2023 model year cars also don’t want a new car right now.] For several years, I’ve taken part in Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program which e enables me to move to a new iPhone once a year, if I wish. I last bought a new phone in September of 2022. This morning, I received a … | Continue reading
[“Prosciutto is a type of thinly sliced, cured ham that originated in Italy.”]Last October, a woman fractured her ankle after a fall at Boston’s Italian food emporium Eataly. Now, she’s suing for damages, and that doesn’t sound very funny. The humor comes in when you learn that h … | Continue reading
[The Streisand Effect is strong here.]Because soccer is incorrectly enjoyed by billions of fans around the world, and because a not-insignificant percentage of people are jerks, ripping up currency to embarrass Argentinian teams is a thing. Now, the economically distressed nation … | Continue reading
[In their own words, they’ve been “color blind since 1926”.] It’s not good news when a business with 30,000 employees goes bankrupt. It may be especially bad when that company is part of the already-strained supply chain, as trucking giant Yellow is. Or was. Still, there might be … | Continue reading
[Alone and silly]With a recent change to the law in Oregon, New Jersey now stands alone in its goofy insistence that drivers not pump their own gas.Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-lifts-ban-self-serve-gas-leaving-nj-only-state-prohibiting-rcna98260 | Continue reading
[Marihuana!]Via Universal Hub, we have a wonderful tableau from 72 years ago, as captured by the Boston Herald: It’s described thusly: Police began their annual chore-cutting down a mysterious growth of the dope weed in a field off Willow court, Dorchester. The growth has severa … | Continue reading
[Then he went inside and got take out.]There are plenty of items worth noting in this terrible story of the death of an old man in the Sunshine State. For one thing, the accused is charged with “aggravated manslaughter on an elderly person”, though he is himself an elderly person … | Continue reading
[Most of those landlines, however, aren’t POTS lines.]The landline telephone is disappearing in America, as nearly 75% of people having cut the (phone) cord to go strictly with cellular service. Still, that means a quarter of Americans do have a landline, and that population is h … | Continue reading
[Please note that even the defendant’s mother disputed his alibi.]I find it difficult to understand the thinking behind witnessing a car crash, following the perpetrator and confronting him, and leaving a one-star Google review, all while not providing information directly to the … | Continue reading
[This is not appetizing.]Alright, what exactly is going on, Trader Joe’s? Previously in inedibles: Danger: May Contain Rocks ∞Link: https://www.wbur.org/npr/1190868228/trader-joes-falafel-recall-rocks | Continue reading
[Will it feel good for even a couple of seconds?]Despite the fact that he’s recently been indicted for dozens upon dozens of very real crimes, Donald Trump is currently the front-runner to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Well, one Republican told it like it apparentl … | Continue reading
[“It’s too hot for a man to wear a bear suit” is quite a defense.]I don’t actually think a zoo in China has a human masquerading in a bear suit , but I do find it hilarious that it’s not out of the realm of possibility.Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/31/chinese-z … | Continue reading
[I admit it, it worked.]Speaking of things you wouldn’t want to eat, there’s now a French’s mustard-flavored Skittle. Link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/business/skittles-frenchs-mustard/index.html | Continue reading
[Unless we sift it very carefully, mayn’t anything contain rocks?]I sincerely hope no one gets sick or has any ruined dental work before this Trader Joe’s recall can be effected. But that headline just absolutely cracks me up. How in the name of Charlie Brown do rocks end up in f … | Continue reading