A tip o’ the ol’ Dog Rat toupee to cartoonist John Rose for today’s Barney Google comic strip.
https://comicskingdom.com/barney-google-and-snuffy-smith/2025-05-18
Everybody Has An Opinion
A succinct, clear analysis of the spot that Trump has stuck himself in with his tariffs, and it’s — surprise — from a tech site.
https://gizmodo.com/trump-demands-walmart-eat-the-tariffs-2000603785
“Constipation” Cure
A workaround has been implemented for an old problem on the amazing Voyager 1 spacecraft. Would AI have had the insight this engineer did?
… one of our engineers had this insight that maybe there was this other possible cause and it was fixable.
The Netfix Was In
Continuing to dig through piles of stuff in my office, I came across the booklet for my now useless first generation Roku player, from 2008.
Look at all those connections! The original name for the product was, “The Netflix Player by Roku.”
Prattman Cave
I’m on a tear, reorganizing my office and the space that I suppose should be called the media room. Going through many long-buried things, I was reminded that I used to make DVDs.
Remember when the music and movie industries were so concerned about recordable media? They were convinced that people burning their own CDs and DVDs would destroy their businesses forever. Now, they couldn’t care less about physical media.
Presto Change-o
Now you see it…
… now you don’t!
