No, I do not believe 0.4%, or over 7,000 people guessed the opening #wordle answer today. Not credible.

I love Facebook: "People you may know" 《Pope Francis XIV》

I am Groot, and it's still upsetting. #NYTSpellingBee

(went for a walk, they paved the park's lot with new tar and new mix. All I could see was "asphalt rice cakes"!)

(tech feature I don't have: option to quiet the microwave beep so I can use if someone else is sleeping)

Hey #NYTCrossword, if today's puzzle wasn't titled Fill In The Blanc, shame on you!

Article on sending 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri and all I can picture is the Aniara www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Kroger is so cheap they played a *cover* of the Eagles! Really?! Eagles didn't do a good job? Original copy was worn out? What?

Suspension of *belief* in Wordle today, as 0.3%, or ~5300 people guessed the word on the first attempt. No.

The Travelling Wilburys are setting the right vibe going into the weekend 😎

NYTSpellingBee was a toughie for me today! I'll be curious to see if there was a pangram (I didn't find it). That pesky "J"

Flaco, RIP, you were awesome www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/a...

(If I owned a book store, I'd price so there was a $0.50 credit on your book purchase if you tell me something about the last book you read. And one fact for each book you want the credit on. Same if I owned a music store 😊)

Special day 8/1 - Go Horseshoe Crab! (can I also say "Go Blue"? lol)

RIP, Tom!

Welp, starting a new Wordle streak today. They got me yesterday with an unknown word - give me all 5 letters and I still needed a clue!

NYTSpellingBee slowing me down when certain speed units are disallowed

reading about the "uncanny valley" effect. That's easy - we hate being lied to. If we're in on the joke, fine, but don't get so close we can't easily tell...

(breathe in the priceless small treasures of life - I've got four days off in a row and the sun is shining 😎)

Watching the opening credits on any movie, and thinking of the carbon footprint of those egotists, and feeling my mortality as all who make a buck from my viewing force me to watch their victory graphics. every. time.

Someone at work truly made a "Voldemort" reference as a shortcut description of a business decision. (no more hobbitses or jedis?) Wonder what the literary touch point will be for my new colleagues that start work in the next 5 years or so?!

Very cool tech if it works. www.wsj.com/tech/clean-w...

Either someone's trying to scam me, or I'm accidentally on a text chain setting up a bachelorette party. There is a small temptation to join in right before they finalize the date and say I can't make it that day lol 😁(no I won't do that)

very cool indeed!

With all the high-tech we have, why hasn't anyone manufactured electrical cords you can yank out of the socket by the tail? Think of all the back injuries eliminated.

Random q following a conversation with someone: does all life on earth *always* have some snippet of DNA that overlaps with humans? Just curious

(hard to stomach that villi is not valid for today's #NYTSpellingBee)

(keep hearing about #inverteFest, and all I can think of is #LobsterFest and #CrabFest, and it makes me hungry lol, but not for most of the invertebrates showcased)

Joni Mitchell is not AI... Bob Dylan is not AI... David Bowie is not AI... Pink Floyd is not AI...

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hull - very enlightening, well drawn, and a strong emotional narration. Highly recommended. www.tcj.com/reviews/feed...

...not going to out them, but have to be honest. found a new group I like, new album coming out - but it's $3.50 cheaper on Amazon than on an artist-friendly site. Folks have to eat, but it sucks. (yeah will prob buy on the non-A site)

(Weekend is here, best health medicine in the world! ☺️)

(feeling guilty because I put too mich sour cream on my potato 🥔... then I thought, "wait, is that even a thing?!")

(market swings today feel like Wall Street cosplaying Duke-Houston game)

(too many folks thinking today is ok... better find someone to that puts that smile on your face and makes you warm in all the right places 😊)

Listening to Tigers home opener, heard a lawyer ad for "bird trauma"?! You can sue for that, or do I need to listen better lol

In a mood today. Gonna have to help our fellow humans youtu.be/p3KoJj4dz2I?...

(I'm old enough that enjoying "Sweet 16" songs is ok if I presume it's at least base 32 math)

(just found the series "Nada", one season, too little too late, and I'm now hungry besides lol)

"adiabatic" not allowed for the NYTSpellingBee puzzle, I was left feeling... well, not too hot but not cool with that

(I'm not that comfortable with NYTSpellingBee containing the phrase "if elon x")

According to NYTSpellingBee today, dadbod is not a single word. hmmmph

(working on a phone snafu... reminding me it's a three-way tie for worst designed "techie" site": Ver****, Com****, On****)

unexpected bonus in the NYTCrossword clues today - a poem I'd never read. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45495/...

(technically, Friday began at 12AM; realistically, it's about 60 minutes away...)

(I think my writing style uses the asthmatic comma, and I'm ok with that)

I finally got through the noise on this one (6th paragraph) - study is mice not men. (and mice ears look suspiciously human) @inmice.bsky.social newatlas.com/biology/tinn...

(It's Friday afternoon? well, Shades of Ian Hunter!)

Very depressing to understand this is a legit worry.

NYTSpellingBee today is anti cow groups - what kine of game is that?!