Bill Janssen

I'll bet sales of Lithia water are going through the roof.

Never been to a breakfast place that had *both* on the table!

I think sliced pickles are for smoked turkey.

Liverwurst and onion on rye -- is there a better sandwich?

You're amazing, Simon!

Finally a predator to control the herds of SUVs!

All Greek to me.

Oh, my!

Guillotine jokes? Edgy!

"Nice little congressional seat ya got there. Be a real shame if someone challenged you in the next primary, wouldn't it?"

There's a story about Stalin at Yalta/Teheran/Potsdam that goes something like this:

Churchill remarks that some plan for postwar Poland would not be popular with the Pope, and Stalin twirls his mustache and says, "The Pope? How many divisions does the Pope have?"

Muscular in the Max Cady sense of the word.

5 cents? I'll be happy to explain how wrong the idea is (any idea) for free!

Mine is that the guy I'm sharing an arm rest with doesn't order a bloody Mary or even tomato juice.

The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2024 Plus a few recently unearthed treasures from the archives.

I always find a few things to like on Kaplan's lists.

slate.com/culture/2024...

Fantastic overview. For those without much time to read (or desire to read), just read the brief ending parts, starting with "knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed."

"There is no reason to think that nearly all lab tests would have setpoints like our electrolytes, liver function tests, kidney function tests, lipid panels, and on and on."

Do you mean "no reason not to think that", or even better "It is possible that"?

Why Does U.S. Technology Rule? Maybe it's just in the right place

I love that Paul Krugman calls Seattle "sort of a secondary technology cluster". Take that, Redmond!

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...

FRED is so much fun to poke around in!

Spent a little time hacking elisp today to bring code to Emacs 29 standards. Immensely satisfying!

VOTE MAD / Alfred E. Neuman for President poster

I might pick this one:
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Here is my 4 month winter outlook from September. We are still in line to have a significantly lower peak than last winter!

At least one of those commas, should, be, called, the "Christopher Walken" comma.

"And the race is still essentially tied."

Calling it a "race" is part of the problem. This is not a sporting event or an entertainment of any sort. It's an impending disaster, and the element of suspense is whether we can avoid it or not.

This seems to be an evergreen story. I've been reading variants of it for 50 years. The only thing that changes are the specific career choices.

"Gluttons and Libertines", by Marston Bates. Discussion of the issues humans struggle with while attempting to be natural.

I think it was because he couldn't source horse fat reliably in the US, to cook them in.

"The Man Who Ate Everything", by Jeffrey Steingarten. From 1997. A retired lawyer who took on the task of food critic for Vogue magazine. One of the funnier books I've read. Beautiful writing.

Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. TV software is getting loaded with ads, changing what it means to own a TV set.

A bit alarming to know that your TV is watching what you watch, and reporting back to the big data aggregators.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Why We Need an Immunome How can we know the primacy of our immune response for health yet be unable to measure it?

We have no clinical test to assess our immune system status. The case for an immunome
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