MS TEAMS is a wonderful example of doing the same function as other software, but poorly

 

Watch This - Big Bug

 Weird, but good.

A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.

Preview.

 

 

 Question on the Montana Reddit: “Whitefish Bachelor Weekend

We’re a group of 12, early April, staying about 45min Northwest of Whitefish. Nice big airbnb, a bunch of late 20s guys coming from all over. Active guys, like the outdoors, down for some classic and nontraditional ideas.
What would you do??”

Best Answer: “List of things to do in Olney in April:
    1    Dry out your clothing and shoes.
    2    Clean the mud out of the Airbnb entryway.
    3    Walk to the end of the driveway.
    4    Drink heavily.
    5    Play games on the Xbox you brought from home.
    6    Drive to town and read the summer hours in the shop windows.
    7    Drive to town and try to convince the local girls that a twelve-way frat boy gang bang in a remote cabin would be a lot of fun. What? No…videos will definitely NOT end up on the internet.
    8    Hit a deer with the rental car.
    9    Wonder what this place looks like when there’s no fog.
    10    Fuck it’s windy.
    11    Dude…the deer is in the front yard again.
    12    I’m sure there’s something going on in Eureka.
    13    Drive to Eureka and look at the border crossing.
    14    Drive back from Eureka.
    15    Bachelor party stuff with 12 dudes and a woman logger from Stryker. You can check out her self loading log truck when the party’s over…’01 Peterbuilt…it’s fucking sweet.
    16    Make meth.
There’s probably more but I think those are the highlights.”

 

A Good Read: Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony

 

 England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this forbidding place, Frobisher believed he had discovered vast quantities of gold, the fabled Northwest Passage to the riches of Cathay, and a suitable place for a year-round colony. But Frobisher's dream turned into a nightmare, and his colony was lost to history for nearly three centuries.

In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Robert Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the nineteenth-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape enabled him to hear the oral history of the Inuit, passed down through generations. It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher's lost colony.

Amazon link

 

 

 

Montana in the Green Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Between 1936 and 1967, Victor H. Green & Company published "The Negro Motorist Green Book," which offered listings of lodgings, restaurants, service stations, and recreation opportunities for African American travelers.

In 1939, Mrs. M. Stitt’s “tourist home” in Helena was Montana’s first and only entry. From the mid-1950s through mid-1960s, other Montana lodgings advertised in the Green Book included places in Billings, Butte, Helena, Livingston, Missoula, and East Glacier.

Montana hotels’ increased interest in the Green Book after 1955 coincides with the passage of an accommodations non-discrimination law. At the national level, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, at least in theory, made the Green Book unnecessary. The publication ended shortly thereafter."

 

 Link from the Montana Historical Society.

 

 

 

 

Today's Winning Reddit Comment

 

Headline: "City Council tables Israel-Hamas resolution, fears division."

Comment: “City Council Tables Discussion They Didn’t Need to Have in First Place”

Always, Always One of My Favorites

 

The United Methodist Church - Glendive - 1950's

 "All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies." - The Books of Bokonon. 

1975/1976. The United Methodist Youth Fellowship decides to have mid-winter sleepover party on a Saturday night. The girls will stay at the Jordan Motor Inn (so we all can go swimming) and the boys will stay in the church. For some reason, without a chaperone. 

So the boys late in the night climbed the very scary stairs and then a ladder to the top of the bell tower. Where they marveled at the world, and then began throwing snowballs at cars stopped at the stoplight. When someone got out of their car and looked around, the boys ran back down the ladder and stairs, only someone grabbed a bell rope and rang the church bell. 

When no one came the boys discovered that they could go up another ceiling access and crawl around the entire second floor ceiling on the beams. But someone fell through the beams by the office, and the boys had to glue the ceiling times back in place and use white-out to cover the broken bits. 

And lo, the next morning they sat in church and did grin over their exploits.

 

Photo credit: Ron Utgard

What make the best pillow for a dog? Freshly-cleaned laundry.

 

It's just a good picture from my life.

 

Stuff

 

Everyone is Trying to Cash In on Valentine's Day

 

New Years Resolution - Read old Playboy magazines by the month

 

Rules is rules.

 

Fake, But Funny

 

A very good read. It's from 2020 but he totally, totally skewers Trump (Secret Service name: "Mastadon")