Article lede of the moment

And so it has begun: the last week of the year, that notorious liminal stretch between Christmas and a new year, when time abruptly downshifts from sport mode to neutral. Will it be productive? No. Will you know what day it is? No.

--Tanya Sichynsky

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