This is probably going to make for some awkward Thanksgiving conversation from now on.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
This is the heart and soul of the web site. Here we have literally tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. You can also click on any category icon to see posts tagged with that particular category.
Q3 Will Need Spumoni
I Have Seen The Future
Fixin’ Chicken
This is WILD. I stumbled upon this clip by accident, but it’s Colonel Sanders on the show What’s My Line back at a time when no one had any idea who he was (which seems unreal, I know). Even if you just watch the first few minutes, it’s a kick.
I Made Gilbert Laugh
As I mentioned off-handedly a few days ago, I was listening (as I always do) to Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, and I just about ran off the road when I heard them mention my name. See, I had whipped up a simple drinking game based on their show and tweeted it to them. It was such a throwaway, I didnt’ even save it. But they mentioned it on a preview, and yesterday when the full show was released, they spent several minutes talking and laughing about it and declared it the best tweet. So the fact I made Gilbert and Frank laugh loudly made my day.
It’s behind a paywall, so I can’t share it, but here’s what I saw this morning:
Oh, and here’s Billy Barty, just for the hell of it. Thanks, Gilly!
One Froggy Evening
Just something silly between serious posts – – probably one of the best Warner Brothers cartoons of all time (and it’s interesting to see what they thought life would be like right about now………..):
Time to Buy Everything
Let’s be reasonable. When faced with the choice of either:
(a) being part of the crowd, enjoying life, and participating happily in the social norm……..
versus
(b) sitting in a corner talking to yourself about what’s wrong with the world………..
What would YOU rather be doing? Those who know me can already guess my answer. Tim “devil-may-care, man-about-time, bon-vivant” would absolutely be in group (a), which this fine young scholar illustrates is the superior choice:
The Past Four Months
The web is littered with thousands of charts to try to unravel what the market has been like over the past four months, but I think this brief movie explains it better than anything I’ve seen yet:
McAfee Bitcoin Bet Update
California Wingnuts
About a week ago, tens of millions of thick printed election information guides were mailed to every household in California, including mine. I have no idea what it costs the state to create this thing, but I suspect something approaching a hundred million dollars. The purpose of these things is, ostensibly, for people to carefully study the propositions on the June ballot as well as the candidates for the various government posts (Federal Senator, California Governor, Treasurer, and so forth).
California is a famously progressive state, but thumbing through this book, I am always struck by some of the – – shall we say – – more fringe candidate that somehow have made their way into this publicly-funded publication. Here are a few………..
We begin with Jerry Laws, whose entire platform and campaign for the Senate can be expressed in merely a single word: (more…)