Well, it’s Tuesday. Time to clean out the bookmarks I’ve been meaning to read. I’ll post them here, to avoid reading them properly. It’s the only way I can delete them without feeling foolish.
The most beautiful bridges in the world
Not hardly. Most of the included examples are ugly, with a fair amount of silly mixed in. What you’re looking at, is people deciding to call things beautiful, when they know in their bones that they’re not, to make some sort of pointless point. The tattoo parlor is also based on this principle.
Violet Hensley, Oldest Living Country Legend, Dies at 109
She made her Grand Old Opry debut when she was 99 years old, so remember: if you’ve been neglecting your fiddle lessons, there’s still time.
A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms — here’s what scientists know
I assume that it’s labeled “controversial” because it works. That’s where we’re at these days.
What we’re currently listening to at the Cabaña Sippican del Sur:
Yma Sumac, eat your heart out.
Home Depot Tops Earnings Estimates and Holds Its Outlook Steady, Amid ‘Frozen’ Housing Market
You mean you can go to a big box store and buy stuff to fix the busted stuff in your existing house, instead of buying a new one and then adding new stuff, and they can make money on it? That’s crazy talk.
Mayor Cecilia Patrón Strengthens Ties with South Korea in Mérida
There are over 7,000 Korean descendants living in Mérida. This explains the noodles and ice cream combo food stalls. I guess. What do I know?
IBM Simon Retro Advertisement and Tutorial:
Boy, except for the Sears catalog, no company had ground floor opportunities in massively profitable products, that did nothing to capitalize on them, like IBM. Some serious 90s vibes for you in that video.
Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
I was kinda hoping it was one of those Nork kinda executions and they launched the poor bastige using the trebuchet, but it was not to be. The effect was mostly the same, I imagine, without the fun ride for starters.
Well, that’s it for today. Feel free to put your favorite bridge in the comments. I suspect our list will differ greatly from Conde Nast. I’ll start:
