12/20/24

 I felt like playin' tonight, L was dog tired. She went to bed, I played 10/7. Started at ¼s. List a bill, got a low pay set and moved up to 50¢. Bingo. $2000 from the nicest hand pay attendant I've ever had. (AND no sniffin' me for having cashed the $730 ticket!)

The LV library ordered extra copies of the Penrose book due to demand... So my weeks long wait became 'immediately.' 

 BBC reports (INEXPLICABLY) that 27 new species of mammal were found in Peru. (Probably sez more about the people that HAD been looking than it does about those who are NOW.) Good side observations by Scott and MI Mary. 

BFD will be SWEET tomorrow.

Quote of the moment

You rank up there with one of the most hideous cases I've ever presided over.

These families will deal with your carnage forever and you sit here and roll your eyes at me.

--Judge Fran Gill

to Richard Allen in the sentencing for his 2017 double murder case

Statistic of the moment

More than 300,000 people die from drowning every year

--World Health Organization

Tsunami quote of the moment

Don't let your guard down after the first tsunami wave. The first one usually is not the highest one. Large tsunami waves might be more than 50 feet high in some areas close to the coast. Tsunami waves can last for hours.

--NYT

Quote of the moment

No one really looks at you except for your mother, your lover or your doctor.

--Simon Callow

Isolated quote of the moment

Loneliness is not a bad thing.

--Angelina Jolie

Meta quote of the moment

Audiences are trained to view everything they watch not as art but as content, and content is meant to be chopped up into digestible little bits that others can consume while scrolling.

--Esther Zuckerman

Quote of the moment

The more exciting, transformative, and revolutionary a science result appears, especially coming out of nowhere, the more likely it is to be dead wrong.

--Paul Sutter

Choosing your friends quote of the moment

Well, to friends, but not to people.

--Cher

(When asked who she'd told a story about Phil Spector pulling a gun)

Climate strategy quote of the moment

The U.S. does not want to get into a table tennis game with China, because that game the U.S. cannot win.

--Li Shuo

Quote of the moment

In the realm of home cooking, there's nothing like the thrill of a win.

--Eric Kim

Quote of the moment

When someone tells you, 'it's not the money, it's the principles,' it's the money.

--Robin Feldman

Quote of the moment

There may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again.

--Donald Trump

Quote of the moment

I'm 50 percent sad and 50 percent happy all the time, at the same time.

--Billy Bob Thornton

Quote of the moment

How useful is anger 30 seconds later. Or 30 minutes later? 

--Sam Harris

Quote of the moment

We live in perpetual choice between conversation and violence. 

--Sam Harris

Quote of the moment

The happy man is someone who has a purpose, something to do each day. The value of money is about how you spend it, not what you make or how much you have.

--Im Chae-moo

Awkward lede of the moment

Malört is, in one word, unforgiving. Made from neutral spirits, wormwood and sugar, it tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires. It is also kind of good.

--Charlie Kolodziej

Quote of the moment

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

--Albert Einstein 

Quote of the moment

The search for truth is more precious than its possession. 

--Albert Einstein