Category: Miscellaneous Mockery

Here’s the previous: Here’s the progress: When it was originally this:

A friend who listens to the Lexicon Valley podcast shared this incredibly satisfying bit of info. The Greek letters Omicron and Omega are two versions of the letter O: the short vowel sound (o as in obsolete) and the long (o as in OMG). The words mean “O – micron” for the short sound –…

Here’s the previous: Here’s the progress: When it was originally this: Jut trying to get the values right, hence all the grey. There will be color later.

Per The Atlantic on July 12, 2026, AI has a very recognizable writing style. Per everyone who reads AI content agrees. “Yes. It does. It’s obnoxious.” If I’d had to describe it, I’d say it’s hyper-dramatic. Lots of declarative sentences. Brief ones — usually including a dash. There’s a tell; a style you cannot avoid.…

The video for the last successful Starship launch I posted came from AP, CNN, and or SpaceX. Screw those guys. Somehow the NASA streaming station pointed me to the NASA Spaceflight broadcast. Here is the difference,only slightly exaggerated: Official SpaceX Livestream: “The vehicle has splashed down, and … it seems it has not exploded, which,…

I had an exchange with Alexa this morning in which I asked for details on today’s rocket launch. She followed her answer with: “Hey, I realized I don’t know your name. Can you tell me who you are?” Aghast, I said, “No, I’m Ellen. You know my name.” She replied with, I swear, receipts below:…

Here’s the previous: Here’s the progress: When it was originally this: How the pedestal still be wrong? And I put turpentine on the red ball, so that needs to be done again. And the dark background will be dark again, just browner. I think every inch of this might end up with new paint.

We have many means to make colors. Indigo is a plant dye. Purple comes from sea snails. Carmine red is from beetle shells. Dry it out, grind it up, mix it with linseed oil. Paint. The earth tones are literally earth. The reddish-brown umber colors started out as the dirt in Umbria, Italy, where the…

My mother said something once about how my Dad was sprayed with chemical agents when he worked downtown in the ’50s and ’60s. Mom made that comment in the ’90s. I believe I said, “Wait … what?” because I was about 30. Had I been any younger I would have just taken it at face…

I don’t remember how old I was when I read about the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Thirty-six young men starved during WWII so the War Department could understand the best way to bring starving people back to health. Here is a really interesting article in which the now-elderly participants remember what it was like. What I…