Here's my humor blog for the past week and I hope you like it.
- MiSTed: GALACTIC FEDERATION Update (Part 4 of 4)
- 60s Popeye: Spinach Greetings, unrelated to Seasin's Greetinks
- Statistics Saturday: Some Pre-19th-Century Christmas Traditions, So Far As You Know
- 60s Popeye: Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
- Reposting The Stages Of The Road Trip: Stage Four
- What's Going On In Dick Tracy? Were those drones from the future watching Dick Tracy? October - December 2021
- Today's Thought in Observance of the Inexorable Passage of Time
- MiSTed: A Moment of Hack (Part 1 of 2)
Have some more photos of Christmas Day; I'll get around to describing what we did soon, I hope.
bunnyhugger looking at a gift her brother wrapped. He always does a couple fancy wrapping jobs; here, note how the ribbons and partial ribbons are set up to look like belt and suspenders, with the bow for the present's head. That's worth memorializing in picture.
The dog melts in front of the fireplace.
And comes over to wonder if I have to still be there. Now I know what you're thinking: why is there a Reddy Kilowatt figure on the coffee table there? And there's a good answer for that, but we don't know what it is.
The dog ponders our gift to her, this squeaky-toy dragon. She isn't sure how much she likes it, what with it being a new thing and all.
The other dog, meanwhile, likes the squeaky-toy dragon except for the squeaking part.
The dog isn't going to stop trying to put her head in
bunnyhugger's father's lap just because he isn't sitting there right now.
Trivia: Walter Paley first hired Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians to play music on the CBS Network for 11:30 pm to midnight, the 31st of December, 1929. The NBC Network hired them to play midnight to 12:30 am, the 1st of January, 1930. Source: The Mighty Music Box, Thomas A DeLong.
Currently Reading: With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830, LeRoy Ashby.
PS: From my Sixth A-to-Z: Taylor Series, which are not quite as important as polynomials, but are really up there still.