Author: Dr Wingnut
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Spring is just one month away
Wear cotton for comfort and leather for looks, but if it’s warmth you want, put on the wool.Bob Joyce’s Norwegian Grandmother – StarTribune 2021-02-20
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Record cold
It’s been cold in Minnesota recently, like below zero cold, and we just missed breaking a record yesterday, but climate change is really hitting the rest of the midsection of the USA with record breaking cold that they just aren’t prepared for, especially in Texas where they were short 15-25 gigawatts for a couple of…
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Super Bowl LV
Insipid, boring, and stupid pretty much sums up the event. The game was boring (Big blowout for Tampa Bay), half-time was insipid (The Weeknd), and the commercials were stupid. There was only one commercial, for some hard lemonade that was mildly amusing. I did however see a new product I needed, a Pittbull skull shaver.
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Doctor Zhivago
In the scene when the doctor returns from stealing wood from the fence and Yevgraf (Alec Guinness) snaps his fingers which causes the mob to magically dissipate from the apartment, my wife said, “Ooooooh. He has the force even in this one.” Pretty good observation from someone who’s not that into Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I…
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Anal Bleaching
Buttholes are brown.They are meant to be brown.And we’re all going to die. Alice Fraser: Savage, 18:21 on Netflix
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Wi-Fi 6E
If 2.4 GHz was the paved suburban road leading to your house while 5 GHz was the major double-lane thoroughfare that takes you downtown, Wi-Fi 6E will introduce a new 6 GHz band that’s the equivalent of a massive multi-lane highway allowing many devices to operate at maximum speed at the same time. The top…
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In-person meetings
When in-person meetings disappeared last year, they were replaced with a weird, new kind of Zoom briefing. In some ways it was more efficient: Each moment of a video meeting is dominated by a single presenter, who—once they figure out how to unmute—feels additional pressure to quickly make a point. But side comments and crosstalk…