Hey, folks who do the AppleTV+ MLB knockout ad spot mound overlay graphics. Make them a bit bigger, give them a conical bend, and a little “dirt” shadow. It’ll look like part of the mound, and be less distracting than the obviously out-of-context flat; you get better user acceptance and a bigger ad-space. Multi-win.

I, too, sometimes find art puzzling.

The Smith Rock Slap? A national inflection point in the long running Woke vs Joke debate; in essence, can joking be acceptable behavior in an equitable and peaceful society? To which the answer is: “Where is this society of which you speak?”

You really want to solve a conspiracy? ;-)

Tell my why window installation companies are SO GOSH DARN cagey about their pricing? So cagey that when I go looking for articles about how it is impossible to find online prices for something as simple as a window, I find nothing but articles agreeing with me—but still NO PRICES? Why? What is the big deal? Are there really high precentage profit margins to reap from all the people who haven’t compared prices? Is every job, every single goddamn job THAT unique? No way. No way in hell. 4sq ft of pane, and 4ft of pvc, and some hardware, hinging, etc. CAN NOT BE A PRICE MYSTERY.

I’m affably baffled.

I’m suspicious that the central dilemma in my life is the belief that there is a central dilemma, which, once solved, would ensure permanent freedom from, y’know, suffering and all that.

Just turned the house fan off, after absentmindedly switching it on to treat a minor air quality emergency this morning. Good gravy, that ol’ devil white noise sure is sneaky. It was like leaving a wind-tunnel and getting noise cancelling headphones.

Wait — the map ISN’T the territory? Okay, that’s why there’s no parking…

The secret to my fitness regimen? Jumping to conclusions—some days I can do a whole long far-fetched set.