Wednesday 1/10/24
Celebrate:
Houseplant Appreciation Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
National Oysters Rockefeller Day
Peculiar People Day
Save the Eagles Day
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Broadway's next big stage musical will be based on Prince's Purple Rain.
The producers say, quote, "We can't wait for a new generation to discover 'Purple Rain' and for lovers of the original film and album to experience its power once again, this time live."
The original movie came out in 1984 and won the Oscar for Best Original Score.
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A guy in Alabama had a few too many on New Year's . . . and got himself stuck in a DECORATIVE URN. Basically, a big planter with no plant in it.
He thought it would be funny to climb into a decorative urn outside and crouch down inside it. But once he got in, he couldn't get out. And a bartender at the party live-tweeted the whole thing.
The video ends with someone chiseling him out with a sledgehammer.
Oh..and...once Connor was out, he walked around the party pantless for a while, and may have lost them during the ordeal.
But there's a photo of Connor posing with the broken urn, and he does have pants on . . . along with a fresh drink in his hand.
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A guy in Wales was stumped when small items on his workbench kept getting moved back into a little wooden box at night. So he set up a camera and discovered a small mouse had been tidying up for him every night for two months.
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An iPhone from that Alaska Airlines flight survived a 16,000-foot drop. That's nice and all, but yours will fall a few inches on a pillow and the screen will break...come on!
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Oscar Mayer is hiring a dozen new "hotdoggers" to drive its Wienermobile for a year: . . . The company is confident they'll find 12 people who will "relish" this opportunity.
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The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas starts today and runs through Friday. But the media got to preview some of the new gadgets earlier this week.
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LG has a new see-through TV. It's called the "OLED T" . . . the "T" stands for "transparent." When it's off, you can see right through it. They claim getting rid of that big black rectangle makes the whole room feel bigger.
A brand called Sevvy has a new oven that's as fast as a microwave. They claim it doesn't give chicken and other meat that rubbery texture like a microwave. You can also bake in it and supposedly make a cake in under four minutes.
Two brothers from Switzerland came up with a new cat door called Flappie that prevents cats from bringing dead mice inside. It's outfitted with A.I. that can detect a dead animal in your cat's mouth, and not let them in until they drop it. (couldn't they come up with a different name.. I'm getting flashbacks to word Clippy)
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Tasmanian devil die-off caused by contagious cancerous facial tumors is allowing competing predator species to proliferate and evolve; devil population dropped by 70% between 1996 and 2020.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Once a giant clam settles into a place and begins to grow, it stays there for LIFE, which can be 100 years or more.
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