10/23/25 - Slasher Films, The Men Diagram, and A 5-Year-Old's B-Day Theme
- bribriny
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Thursday 10/23/25
Celebrate:
Event Organizers Day
National Boston Cream Pie Day
National Canning Day
National Croc Day
National Horror Movie Day
National iPod Day
National Slap Your Irritating Co-Worker Day
Paralegal Day
The Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano
TV Talk Show Host Day
Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Day
National Mole Day - exists to get people—particularly children—interested in chemistry. It takes place between 6:02 a.m. and 6:02 p.m., to commemorate Avogadro's number, which is roughly equivalent to (6.022 x 1023). The number is named after Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro. A mole is a unit of measurement for measuring mass in chemistry, and one mole of a substance is equal to Avogadro's number of molecules or atoms of the substance. (nerds)
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Monday a big internet outage caused a bunch of cloud-based apps to crash the other day. (and messed up my playing Wordle first thing)
Turns out a lot of "smart homes" immediately became dumb homes. And here's the funniest example: A bunch of people's smart beds got really stupid.
A company called Eight Sleep makes bed frames that tilt, and $2,000 mattress covers that let you dial in the temperature of your bed. But it all runs on the cloud, and it's hosted by Amazon Web Services.
The outage happened around 3:00 a.m. so a lot of night owls had issues.
One guy tweeted at the CEO and said, "[It] would be great if my bed wasn't stuck in an inclined position." Someone in the comments added, "It's all fun and games until a hacker folds you into a taco." (it wasn't a hack by the way)
Other customers described issues with their mattress overheating. One guy said his bed was stuck at nine degrees warmer than the room and compared it to "sleeping in a sauna."
The beds started working again once Amazon's servers went back online. The CEO of Eight Sleep said they were working to add an "outage mode" this week, so it doesn't happen again.
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"Paste" magazine has ranked the best Slasher movies of all time.
Defining a slasher movie -
1. Slasher villains are human
2. They have a body count. Never a one-and-done.
3. Home invasion movies are not automatically slasher movies.
Here's the top 10.
1. "Halloween" (1978)
2. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984)
3. "Black Christmas" (1974)
4. "Psycho" (1960)
5. "Peeping Tom" (1960)
6. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (1974)
7. "Deep Red" (1975)
8. "Blood and Black Lace" (1964)
9. "The Burning" (1981)
10. "Alice, Sweet Alice" (1976)
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The Men Diagram is going viral on TikTok.
Remember Venn diagrams from school? You'd mash circles together to show what different things had in common.
Some woman on TikTok is going viral with a new version called a "Men diagram."
It's supposed to predict what type of guy you're dealing with and how datable he is. It's based on three main factors: How smart, nice, and handsome he is.
The overlapping circles
If he's smart and nice . . . he's probably a nerd.
If he's smart and handsome . . . he's probably a jerk.
If he's handsome and nice . . . he's probably dumb.
And if he's smart, nice, and handsome, he's probably gay.
Here are the two videos from her.
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A paper in Atlanta did a story this month on a little boy who's oddly obsessed with former president Jimmy Carter. He was three when he saw a picture of Carter and found it extremely gripping.
He wanted his fifth birthday party to be Jimmy Carter-themed. So his mom started planning and posting videos this summer.
Habitat for Humanity heard about it and sent him a bunch of swag last week. Now he says he wants to build houses when he grows up.
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A recent Reddit thread has people talking about things that were normal 20 to 30 years ago but are considered a luxury now.
"Owning the software you purchased." For better or worse. In theory, subscribing gives you access to updates and upgrades, but that does come at a cost.
"Concert tickets." Technology has made a lot of things better and more accessible. But its effect on concert tickets is definitely not one of them.
"Good-quality fabric in clothing" . . . and similarly, "Household products that don't break within the first few years of use."
"New furniture made out of real wood." Yes, but you might have to go back longer than 30 years for that.
"Single-income families buying a home."
"Legroom on an airplane" . . . and "meals on domestic flights."
"Affordable healthcare." Again, you might have to go back further for that.
"Privacy" . . . like being able to let loose and have a good time without the risk of it being recorded and popping up on social media.
"Calling a company and getting a person on the other end of the phone."
"Ads only on TV, in the newspaper, or on radio. Now there are ads everywhere: YouTube, streaming services, websites, social media, and Amazon." (to be fair, none of that was around 20-30 years ago)
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Alcohol on a first date is a no for some people but for others, it can calm their nerves, and open them up a little bit.
According to a new survey from Tinder, 57% of people say they have at least one alcoholic drink on a first date. The report also came up with a list of "go-to drink options for a first date."
1. Margarita . . . 31% said that's a solid pick.
2. A shot of something . . . 28%
3. A glass of wine . . . 24%
4. A martini . . . 14%
5. A mimosa . . . 13%.
Next on the list are "beach drinks”..Pina Colada and Daiquiri.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Yesterday, 44 years ago - In 1981, the U.S. National Debt hit $1 Trillion. It's now nearly $38 Trillion. That's 38 followed by 12 zeros. $38,000,000,000,000.
Fascinating Facts:
If you spent $100 a second, it would take you over 12,000 years to spend it.
It’s a challenge I accept…now where is my money?
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