I was a programmer for 25-some years but I haven't written a line of code since 2019. I now get my engineering jollies from the used school bus I converted to a motorhome and from the house I bought three years ago and am finishing up renovating. For money I drive a school bus, which pays about 1/6 of what I used to make but is infinitely more satisfying. As far as retirement goes, I'm hoping to die a painless death before AI replaces all the CDL jobs in the country. I think AI will work fine for school buses, mainly because kids are easier to replace the younger they are.

"Bruce, did you know that some actors turn down roles?"

My cousins are half-Thai, their mom is an immigrant from Thailand that my uncle married while serving in the Navy. My uncle was a trumper and virulently racist and anti-immigrant and taught his sons to be the same. For bonus points, thanks to the genetic dice my cousins happen to look generally central american and got abused more for that growing up in Florida than for being half Asian. How you could have that kind of background and still be a white supremacist is beyond me, but they've pulled it off. It helps a lot that they are just straight up stupid.

HOLA ICE

they found a guy who looks exactly like David Byrne

You may ask yourself
Why the big bomb?

It was sorta a military base. They did have POWs there.

Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the 1893 world's fair in Chicago, Eiffel proposed building a copy of his original tower but twice as tall. The organizers passed on the offer and went with the Ferris wheel instead. We could have had Eiffel Bueller's Day Off.

When I was a kid in the '70s there was a rumor that went around that Rod Stewart once sucked so many dicks that he had to go to the hospital to have the semen pumped out of his stomach. Here's Rod Stewart himself explaining it.

Antz was the "copycat" movie that was rushed out to beat A Bug's Life into the theaters. Back when animation studios even bothered with that shit.

"First rule of leadership, princess: everything is your fault!"

The middle school near my house is sort of like this, not truly parabolic but the side facing south has three highly reflective glass faces at slightly odd angles relative to each other, just a few degrees each. It is insane how much heat even this produces in the morning if you're standing in the right place. In winter when we have snow, there's always a nice green bare patch in this spot.

My mom didn't trust the little lever thingie on her curling iron to hold it up off the bathroom sink properly. So she would rest it on a folded-up towel instead. And she would sometimes forget about it and leave it there on full heat. Somehow the house is still standing.