Never seen Fountainhead, and it was never a good idea to try to explicitly visualize the fantasies of Douglas Adams, since it was bound to lose out to the images we’d already generated in our heads when reading the books.

I got bored half-way through, unfortunately.

That’s deeply disturbing

Well, the naughty autopilot’s name was Otto, only revealed in the trailing credits. The copilot was supposedly Roger Murdoch, but really Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. For what it is worth, I’m pretty sure I have internalized all the jokes in “Airplane!” (note the exclamation mark). Roger Roger and Roger the...

On an unrelated note, if you try to prosecute a deeply corrupt and oddly Trump-like former head of state for corruption, no soup for you! Not even a taco! 50% tariffs! That we will pay…

GAA Palestine denied visas for summer tour of Ireland https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0709/1522752-gaa-palestine-visas/ A team of 33 children and 14 mentors were due to travel to Ireland for a summer tour, but have been denied entry. I didn’t get the GAA thing, but now I understand it has to do with h...

It’s hard to know what category to post this under, but this is probably as close to sheer lunacy as anything else we have on hand. So, Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. No further comments could possibly be needed.

Well, this took an interesting turn!

It's far away from Bridgeport, Conn. Too many sharks and ticks. https://www.lymedisease.org/tick-threat-shuts-down-ct-beach/ "Jaws 3"? Nasty little buggers. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Adult_deer_tick.jpg/500px-Adult_deer_tick.jpg It’s about a two hour drive ...

Bermuda?

I love, love, love the renewed fighting between Trump and Musk! They might just about have the means and wherewithal to destroy each other.

Indeed. I’m heading in that direction myself in a few weeks. The duty free shopping on arrival is very convenient (although a bizarre concept if you think hard about it), but is probably still limited to the assortment carried by Vinmonopolet.

There is fine line between grensehandel and smuggling, but I’m all in favor of it!

Got it - sorry!

I’m always happy to see my ursine brethren do well, historically up to and including Mr Borg (a Swede!). As for Thomas, I watched the coverage when he obliterated his final round Open lead in a bunker at the 16th hole of Royal St George’s in 2003. Not quite as bad as the Jean van de Velde collapse a...

You could credibly say the same thing about a habanero pepper, but not sure that it would do either full justice