And speaking of, here's the Correct Way to Drink on Election Night.
Henry Trigg And The Coffin in The Roof. He thought his plan would foil grave robbers, but he was wrong.
Seismic Explorer is an interactive map that displays every earthquake of magnitude 5 or above that has occurred since 1980. (via Kottke)
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms. (via Boing Boing)
The strange history of the Philpot Lane mice. A tiny sculpture of two small mice eating a piece of cheese supposedly remembers the death of a building site worker, or does it? (via Nag on the Lake)
Researchers tortured robots to test the limits of human empathy. A brief history of people bullying robots. (via Damn Interesting)
Elon Musk Could Lose His Citizenship For Lying On Immigration Forms. He won't, of course, because he's rich. (via Fark)
Where Does the Phrase ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ Actually Come From?
Elon Musk: Because he is rich, someone took the time to look at his immigration documents. If that were me or you, no one would have bothered...may also have something to do with who he is supporting in the current election cycle.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely no way I'd waste a good bourbon or single malt scotch on election night. Seeing as I'm going to be either unhappy or less unhappy, it's gonna be homemade peppered vodka all the way, which somehow seems more appropriate.
ReplyDeleteAtlas & Slate have the audacity to tell me what to eat and how to drink?
ReplyDeleteI was eating and drinking when they were just a gleam in Cerf’s and Kahn’s eyes.
“Regardless, it’s clear that poor Henry met a most undignified end.”
Poppycock, he is long remembered and provided generations with amusement.
Much better than... Henry who?
A whole lot of shakin’ going on, I wonder if the extensive island construction by China in the South China Sea is rattling the earth?
Texas women are tough, they don’t need no Federal mandates even if a couple die, they were probably transplants from CA or NY.
I’m sure there’s a lot of middle school kids who wish they had a robot to take abuse for them.
There were a lot of people from the far corners of the Earth working in Silicon Valley and nobody there cared as long as you produced.
Musk is from the same bag of twits as trump.
a. Become a celebrity non-thinking people will follow off a short pier.
b. Milk the government for Billions
c. Abuse the fame/fortune to manipulate society for revenge and profit.
“May you live in interesting times”, is not necessarily a curse. Interesting times don’t have to be bad, there’s been times where great scientific leaps, medical discoveries, or social strides happened.
xoxoxoBruce
I don't recall where I first heard the phrase "May you live in interesting times" but once I encountered it in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books it became his.
ReplyDeleteOnce in the middle 1990s a pretty, lithe, twenty-something white woman with long black hair ran up to me in the grocery store, grabbed my hand to shake it in a vise-like grip --very large hand for a woman-- shouted in my face, "May you live in interesting times!" in a cartoonish Eastern European accent, let go, whirled around, ran out the door and around the corner. I never saw her again.
ReplyDeleteThat was you!?
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