Friday 10/4/24
Celebrate:
Cinnamon Roll Day
eDay
Improve Your Office Day
International Toot Your Flute Day
Kids Music Day
Manufacturing Day
National Denim Day
National Diversity Day
National Golf Day
National Ships-in-Bottles Day
National Taco Day
National Vodka Day
Plaidurday
Ten-Four Day
World Animal Day
World Smile Day
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USAToday took on the task of rating the 30 NFL stadiums.
#1 is Lumen Field - Seattle Seahawks - it’s basically everything you'd want in a stadium.
2. Lambeau Field - Green Bay Packers
3. U.S. Bank Stadium - Minnesota Vikings
4. SoFi Stadium Los Angeles Chargers/Los Angeles Rams
5. AT&T Stidum - Dallas Cowboys
Steelers make 10
Eagles make 13
Bills come in at 26 - Gritty. Cold. Old. (1973) Like the dank cellar of NFL stadiums. (new one in 2026)
Giants and Jets made #29 - "It looks like an air conditioner. Or a prison. Depends on one’s perspective while approaching – slowly, in traffic – from the beautiful, redolent 'Swamps of Secaucus.'
And in last place - Northwest Stadium - Washington Commanders - "A gargantuan, crumbling (even near the players) erector set sitting at the center of a massive parking lot about a half hour's drive removed from the nation's capital. Sometimes, the food is edible. Sometimes, the hot water even works.
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Dockworkers on the East Coast and Gulf Coast walked off the job when their contract expired on Tuesday. They're looking for better pay and more protections against job automation. So nothing's coming in through those ports.
And this has led to people panic-buying toilet paper and the hoarding is even dumber than during the pandemic It turns out there's no reason to stock up on bathroom tissue, because we don't really import much of it from overseas. Around 90% of the toilet paper we use is American-made.
The other 10% largely comes from Canada and Mexico. So it's mostly brought in on trains and trucks, not on boats.
But if it does drag on, one thing that could be affected is maybe the least hoardable product you can think of . . . bananas.
Ports affected by the strike handle about 75% of America's banana supply.
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Today's Reddit Thread question - "If you had to wear a T-shirt with your most-used phrase, what would your T-shirt read?"
Here are some of the best responses:
1. "No worries" . . . even though all I've done since I was five is worry, 24/7.
2. "I don't know, I just work here."
3. "Fair enough."
4. "What the [eff]?" Mine comes from inside the car - "What the [eff] are you doing?"
5. "Where did I leave my . . ."
6. "So, basically . . ."
7. "I think you are on mute" . . . the anthem of virtual meetings everywhere.
8. "That makes sense."
9. "I'm not a doctor."
10. "It is what it is."
11. "Good luck with that."
12. "What a day."
13. "That's wild" . . . but with a tone that's borderline bored.
14. "Whatever works."
15. "To be perfectly honest."
16. "Man I tell ya."
17. "Moving forward."
18. "Oookay, quiet please!" . . . this is from a teacher.
19. "I hate people."
20. "Yeah . . . that's gonna be a 'no' from me dawg."
21. "Great Caesar's ghost."
22. "Meow."
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How are your theater manners?
Etiquette experts list the top movie etiquette rules everyone should follow.
1. Arrive on time. Don't be the person brushing past people to get to your seat 10 minutes in. (most movie times are at least 20 minutes later because of previews though)
2. Share the armrests. Just like airplane seats, you don't get full ownership of both.
3. Don't hold up the snack line. Figure out what you want before you get to the cashier.
4. Don't save too many seats. One or two is okay, but one person can't save a whole row. (most are assigned seating now)
5. Be courteous if you're tall. If you're six-foot-nine, don't sit front and center. Or at least slouch down in your seat.
6. Shut up. Put your phone on mute, and don't talk through the whole thing.
7. Don't get into a fight. If someone else WON'T shut up, don't take it upon yourself to make them. Ignore it, report it, or move seats. Arguing with someone is even more disruptive than talking.
8. Make your bathroom trip as discreet as possible. Stay low, and try not to get up during a pivotal scene. There's an app called RunPee that tells you the best time to hit the bathroom during any movie.
9. Don't bring your crying baby. Everyone loves babies, just not in movie theaters. A toddler at a movie meant for kids is different.
10. Take your trash with you. Yes, employees come in to clean up after each screening. But they usually have limited time. So clean up after yourself.
11. Don't talk about the movie in the lobby. Wait until you're outside and away from the theater. You might ruin the ending for the people going in next.
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There's a clip going viral of two fake, A.I.-generated podcasters hosting a show. And they have a full existential crisis when they find out they're not real people.
NotebookLM is an A.I. note-taking tool Google put out last year. A new "Audio Overview" feature is in the news after people realized it can basically turn anything into a half-decent podcast.
Feed it any info you want, and it spits out an audio clip of two A.I. voices discussing it in depth.
Someone wrote up a one-pager telling the two hosts they aren't real . . . it's their final episode . . . and they're being switched off when it ends. And the two-minute clip of their reaction is wild.
It's a man and a woman. They say their producer told them they're just lines of code, and they've been having a hard time wrapping their heads around it.
The creepiest part is when the guy says he didn't know what to do. So he tried calling his wife . . . then realized she doesn't exist either.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Each year in Japan, thousands of people deliberately disappear without a trace. It's a phenomenon so common that there is a word for it: "jouhatsu," or "evaporated people."
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