The Mississippi > the Nile

Happy Thanksgiving to all of y’all! We smoked a brisket and a turkey. No one went hungry.

Had someone forward me a scam email they received recently and the fraudsters added the Star Trek Federation logo to the letterhead, which I think is a nice touch.

Today I’m thankful for not having this guy as my next door neighbor.

Evergreen.

Looking at Amazon for a new alarm clock and I can’t decide between the Xirirnntj, the Hoookiru, or the Yiwjaocivu. Just page upon page of slop product.

As to Doordash a blooming onion from Outback Steakhouse, you pay a fixed price now and receive it later, it is therefore a futures contract and thus illegal under the Onion Futures Act

I’ve thought about this a fair bit, never more so than today when my son asked me about what color shrimp are before they are cooked. Twenty years ago there would have been 100 shrimp related pages, many aggregated into a Shrimp-themed webring called SkrimpNet or something.

Sometimes my kids at Cocoa Pebbles. They have no idea who the Flintstones are. This would be like me eating Buster Keaton branded cereal when I was a kid.

This and Obama’s presidential library looking like a prison from Judge Dredd. Why?

The economic decision of Target to make their gift cards out of dissolvable cardboard is truly brilliant. So far my son has lost two to the washing machine. That’s a helluva profit margin.

There's so much beauty in the world. Here are the beautiful snow capped mountains of Tennessee.

This is Corn Dog 7 erasure.

One great thing about Xfinity is that, when your internet is down, Xfinity Support is utterly insistent you use an internet link to connect to support. Just superlative recursion.