Time again to take a trip through the recent browser tabs on my phone.
I have lots of questions throughout the day, and no patience for
nonsense, so I often take to the ol Googler when any old thing
pops into my noodle.
Here are a few from the most recent collection.
Joel is the human in this picture.
He is the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000,
of which I have become deeply enamored.
The show began on a cable access channel in Minnesota (KTMA),
then was picked up by bigger networks.
It ran for several years on the newly created Comedy Central,
then moved to the SciFi Channel. (or is it ScyFy now? looks weird)
There are a few seasons of a revamped MST3K, which has a
few good episodes, but I find myself drawn towards the original series.
Joel Robinson was on the Satellite of Love until the Mitchell episode, when he
finally escapes in an escape pod that was hidden in a crate of Hamdingers.
Then, Mike Nelson took over as the human with the bots, until
he got to escape in the Diabolik episode, ending the original series.
I looked him up because in a host segment for Catalina Caper,
he was talking about the 1960s, and how he was just a kid then,
which meant he couldn't go to Woodstock, because he was 9 years old.
I wanted to find out his birthday. You know, to check his math.
And, for me, there is no Joel vs. Mike debate.
I like them both for different reasons and will not be forced to choose
one over the other.
In 2019, I managed to catch MST3K Live, and I'm pretty sure Joel was there.
Eraserhead
Eraserhead is a film by the recently departed David Lynch.
It was his first feature length film, made in 1977.
The titular Eraserhead is played by Jack Nance, and
the whole movie is a study in surrealist abstraction.
What does it mean?
Your guess is as good as mine, but it is usually described as
a young man's struggle to deal with growing up and becoming a father.
He gets a woman pregnant and the baby is a horror show.
He must care for it, despite not knowing what to do with it.
It cries constantly.
His only consolation is the Lady in the Radiator, who tells him
that In Heaven everything is fine. 🎜🎝
I don't hate this film. I've watched it a few times.
Lynch made better movies over the course of his career, but
I always have a fondness for the alienating weirdness of Eraserhead.
Dancing bears
I forget why I looked this up.
Maybe it was mentioned in a movie I was watching.
They are becoming more rare, from what I can surmise from
my search. But you can find modern video of dancing bears.
The practice is a combination of Pavlovian cues and blatant abuse.
It can be found in Bulgaria, Russia, and Siberia, among other places,
even in the USA for a brief period.
Dead Internet Theory
As someone who spends an unusual amount of time on the Internet,
I couldn't help but run across this conspiracy theory.
I will let Wikipedia speak for me:
The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory that asserts, due to a coordinated and intentional effort, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation to control the population and minimize organic human activity.
Are you a bot? Am I a bot?
Is anything you see online real anymore?
Tariffs
It's in the news lately, so it's time to look it up.
Basically, tariff is a tax on imported goods, sometimes called a
duty or custom.
When used with precision, tariffs can be used to encourage
domestic manufacturing.
When used recklessly, it just makes expensive stuff even more
expensive and can develop into a trade war with previously friendly nations.
And even if the sought after domestic manufacturing becomes reality,
the prices still won't come down and the average citizen is stuck
with the bill.
Oops, sorry. Got a little editorial there for a minute.
Long explanation short, the country applying the tariffs will inevitably
pass the tax onto its own domestic consumers.
We're all being played for a bunch of rubes.
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Wear your mittens, it's cold outside.
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