- Utah teen arrested for taping fish to ATMs – via kottke
- Lorne Michaels Is the Real Star of Saturday Night Live
- Egyptian officials announced the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two centuries. It’s the first royal Egyptian tomb to be discovered since the final resting place of King Tutankhamun was found in 1922. – via @indyfromspace.bsky.social
Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps- The most disturbing part of this headline is that anyone — anyone — could be shocked by this: “Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ after POTUS Bans Her Children’s Book Freckleface Strawberry from Schools”
- “DOGE” seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS. Here is an excellent TL;DR of the article: The POTUS has ordered the IRS to hand over all of your personal information to a Holocaust denier who works for the richest man on Earth, who is a Nazi. – via @theophite.bsky.social, via anildash.com
- Related? The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia
- “President Plane Accident” – via @rollingstone.com
Posts tagged “flying”
- Here’s some excellent advice from Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs fame: “Don’t be that guy. Don’t wait for the world to acknowledge your accomplishments.” (He’ll also help you find a job.)
- For @andybabb: A Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
- Where can I fly for how much?
- Twirdie is Twitter golf!
The Earth is just amazing. (I had no idea the Titanic was that deep.)- Porn surfers are likely to have out-of-date software that can be exploited, making those users an attractive target for cybecriminals.
- Sexual Congress
- How to keep someone with you forever — employee or lover.
- The Spill, The Scandal and the President is the inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years … and let the world’s most dangerous oil company get away with murder. (Does anyone else ever wonder why the hardest hitting investigative journalism in America is consistently done by a rock ‘n roll magazine?)
2024-06-28: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
Around the World
Tonight I’m in Phoenix, AZ at the Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains. My dad is here for a business convention and I am quite happy to be his golf partner for the weekend. (Apparently the UCLA Bruins football team is staying at this hotel as well, which is odd because we’re not very close to
Airline Strike
On flying
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Vacation Part 2
Now here’s when the vacation really started. I got up at 6:30 am and finished packing my stuff. Drank some coffee. Read the paper. I was showered, dressed to fly, refreshed, and on I-75 North to I-10 East by 8:30 am. Ack! What an unbearably boring drive. Hung over. Anticipating burning wreckage. The stewardesses were