One of my favorite music videos from the early days of music videos was the Dire Straits song “Money For Nothing.” I liked the song before I saw the video. I liked it after I saw the video.
What’s on your mind? Got something you’d like share? A joke? Something that’s been on your mind? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
A company called Blue Frontiers plans to build 300 houses on a seaborne platform off the island of Tahiti that will run under its own governance.
*Sigh*… I remember back when it was 3000 miles wide and called “America”.
[How Lawn Mower Blades Cut Grass (at 50,000 FRAMES PER SECOND) – Smarter Every Day 196] (Viewer #1,736,798)
You can jump out after 7:52
[High Praise! to The Babylon Bee]
Democrats Accuse Trump Of Sexism For Not Nominating Female Justice They Promised To Block
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”
Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
It’s either “wear your seatbelt” (which has saved my life a couple of times) or “don’t try to beat the stock market, settle for a tie by buying Index Funds”.
Also, “don’t try to have the last sign on the moon, you’ll only die tired”.
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Recently stolen from a top secret Pentagon research laboratory…
The city of Boston is considering extending voting rights to non-US citizens.
What a silly thing to do. I know for a fact Boston has a perfectly good harbor they could throw them into, instead.
