The Daily Dad

Things you might want to know, for Apr 27, 2023:

• Here are all the MAFS Australia 2023 cast’s first Insta posts since the experiment — The absence of Harrison is appreciated.
• Sleeping elephant seals fall through ocean’s depths, and some even nap on the sea floor — If I had a nose like that, I’d hide in the depths too.
• Why are you crying? — On topic.
• Flandalorian: The Mandalorian but made out of flan
• Archive of fictional brands

• Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Hot for Teacher’ Guitar Sells for $3.9 Million at Auction — The estate probably needs the money, and Wolfe probably doesn’t want it, but still… I feel like it should have stayed in the family.
• Researchers Argue Black Holes Will Destroy All Quantum States
• Hitting the Books: We’d likely have to liquidate Jupiter to build a Dyson Sphere around the Sun
• Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy as Turnaround Fails — BB&B is one of those stores that Amazon should have killed almost immediately… I’m honestly shocked they survived for so long.
• There’s only one right way to watch Ghosted — TL;DR: Don’t watch the trailer. At all.

• The secret reason that the Boggle letters were changed
• AI Image Generator Is Making Wild And Horrifying Game Controllers
• Wes Anderson’s Staged Re-Creations of Out of Sight, Armageddon, and The Truman Show for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards — Watching Wes Anderson riff on the mediocre movies of 1999 is a curious experience… these spots aren’t so much funny as they are fascinating. Which I suppose is a charge that could be leveled at Anderson’s actual movies, but fuck those killjoys.
• John Mellencamp Asks If Weapons Are Really Our Right in New ‘Hey God’
• Fascinating video compares the heights of famous people throughout history — Alexander? Not so great.

• How the Legendary Chuck Jones Became a Great Artist — There’s not much new here if you’ve watched longer Jones retrospectives, but it’s a nice place to start.
• My Balls-Out Quest to Achieve the Perfect Scrotum — The perfect scrotum is whatever fits in a bitch’s mouth.
• It’s a laser bong — Yes, it is. And I am in love.
• Can ActivityPub save the internet? — Probably not, but let’s find out. Get that shit working already, Tumblr.
• The dry herb and concentrate vape pens you need to enjoy a vaporous 4/20 — I’m late with this one, but Tumblr is being a pain in the ass about publishing these news posts.