Facebook quips

• [Guardian article: Mouse secretly filmed tidying man's shed every night] "Vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings carrying out elaborate and subtle experiments on man." I like the idea that the "man" in the Douglas Adams quote referred not to humankind but to this one dude specifically.
• 5 years now since my first remission and almost a year into my second remission. The graph of my WBC count looks like one of those amusement park rides that just lifts you up and drops you. I guess I should be glad there are no loops?

• [regarding Senator Matt Gaetz, who bragged about having sex with minors] If the gates of heaven are pearly, the gates of hell must be matte
• A ska musical about the gay couple who raised Mary Poppins
  you know
  The Mary Poppins Daddies
  I'm only about 25 years late with this joke.
• I just did a search for "uncle terwilliger waltzes with bears," and was told that a related search is "human skin lampshade." 😱
• [headline: Study shows humans selectively bred corn to be less aggressive] Not to mention, detassling results in unicorn.

• [headline: Browns gearing up for one last shot at dropping Big Ben] I just assumed this headline was about UPS.
• Goodreads: we know you said you're interested in science fiction, so we thought you might like "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" Because, you know, it predicts the future. Oh, you've read that, and you liked it? Then have ALL THE DR. SEUSS. And also Winnie the Pooh
• How much warmer was December 2021? Our house had 25% less demand for heating than in December 2019, and 36% less than 2020.

• There's a classic filk song called "The Ballad of Transport 18" about a cargo ship stranded in deep space that gets rescued by Mr. Spock at the expense of its cargo of beer. My brain is trying to parody it about COVID-19, but there are just too many possibilities.
• [January 6] So, we always hear that peaceful protests are more effective. Is that why the police are so much rougher on peaceful protestors than violent ones? 🤔
• [January 6] Even George Orwell stopped short of saying "treason is patriotism." Who would have believed that?

Are we really ready to revisit 2020? Here goes...

• A Russian-American comedian I heard on BBC world service a few minutes ago was just saying how in the Soviet Union, when someone important died they would broadcast Swan Lake for 24 hours on all stations with no explanation, causing everyone who lived through it to develop a pavlovian stress response to the music. So here I am a few minutes later minding my own business, and what starts playing in the next room? Daaaaaa da da da da daaaaaa da daaaaaa...

mining ever closer to the present...

• I suspect the reason there's no movie of Han and Leia's wedding is because they changed their last names to Duet. Kyllo Ren's birth name was Ben Trio. If they'd had another kid, they would have just gone with Ensemble.

If I were a right-wing conspiracy theorist, I would think that the reason the Democrats are allowing the Trump presidency farce to play out is so that all the white supremacists and misogynists feel comfortable identifying themselves on social media, in order to compile a registry of such people for use after Clinton takes office. Because otherwise I would have to admit that I was totally dead wrong about Obama's motives for the last 8 years, and that would be awkward.Mining ever closer to the present...

Continuing on towards the present: