Essays and Bad Ideas

The Daily Dad — Nov 22, 2024

I still think the movie should have been called The Good, The Bad, and Eli Wallach Needs A Bath
ba-WOOSH!
  • Flush Toilet Finder | jRustonApps
    ❝ Flush Toilet Finder is the quickest, simplest way of finding a public bathroom or restroom.
    💬 Fuck Yelp… this is the hyper-local, user-generated recommendation database we need. We all need a personal George Costanza, directing us to the best toilet in our cities.
  • Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.
    ❝ Intellectual humility could win back much-needed trust in science…
  • Max tries its hand at procedural in first teaser for medical drama The Pitt
    ❝ Max tries its hand at procedural in first teaser for medical drama The Pitt
    💬 Such is my sentimental love for the first half of ER’s run that I will absolutely give this show a chance. And even if it starts off weak, the show’s structural conceit —all 15 episodes are set during a single hospital shift— is novel enough to keep me hanging around for a bit beyond the pilot.
  • Former comedian Russell Brand ended up selling “magical amulets” for “EMF protection”
    ❝ I’ve watched with fascination and disgust as Russell Brand has transformed over the years from actor, to spiritual guru and conspirituality grifter (which includes hawking cryptocurrency), to—immediately following rape allegations—right-wing Jesus loving Christian MAGA darling…
    💬 The frustrating thing about Brand is that he’s legitimately talented and smart. Most MAGA figures are knuckle-dragging know- and do-nothings, but Russell can produce everything from the filthiest comedy to melodious recitations of Shakespeare without batting an eye. Which almost makes his turn worse, because it’s so clearly cynical and defensive… he’s hiding among the dipshits and morons to protect himself from the repercussions of a couple decades of substance-addled sex-addiction. And it’s working.
  • DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
    ❝ Integrating genetic data with historic and archaeological data can enrich or correct popular narratives.
We wouldn’t want anyone thinking she’s sexy, now would we?
  • Sexual Scene At Sabrina Carpenter’s Show Stirs Debates
    ❝ “She has such a young fan base and to traumatize them like that is so sad.”
    💬 Screw every single one of these haters in the orifice of their choice. I’m hardly a fan of Carpenter’s music, but get over yourselves, you entitled, whining little bitchlets… all the pop and rock music ever made had —and always will have— a young fan base, and who gives a flying, flipping, fantastical fuck? Tipper Gore would love you neo-Puritanical freaks, and that ain’t a compliment.
  • What you actually got from those comic book ads
    ❝ X-Ray Specs? Amazing fighting techniques? Magic tricks? A monkey? These videos show off what actually arrived when you ordered something from a comic ad.
    💬 As a former kid who spent untold hours staring with wide-eyed curiosity at those ads, I appreciate that someone finally answered all of my unspoken questions.
  • Tripping on magic mushrooms to treat anorexia nervosa
    ❝ In another promising study on the medical use of psilocybin, the hallucinogen in magic mushrooms, researchers have shown that psychedelic therapy can help with treatment-resistant eating disorders.
  • Site collects “Title Drops”—when someone says the name of the film, in the film
    ❝ The analysis plowed through 73,921 movies released in the last 80 years. Scouring the data for matches was not as easy as you might assume.
  • Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You’ll be needing 98.css
    ❝ If you would like to make a website look and feel exactly like Microsoft Windows 98—and whyever not?—you could do far worse than to use Jordan Scales’ 98.css. It’s not…
  • 23 Wild Porn Sex Acts That Don’t Work
    ❝ “Stopping and changing positions every three minutes is a good experience.”
    💬 Porn is indeed a bad example of good sex. But the people crying the loudest about porn being a bad example are the kind of people no one would ever want to have sex with. Unclutch your pearls, you tedious vanilla dumbasses.