5/1/25 - Happy May!, AI (not A1), and Short Songs
- bribriny
- 7 days ago
- 4 min read
Thursday 5/1/25
Celebrate:
Bread Pudding Recipe Exchange Day
Couple Appreciation Day
CSS Reboot Day
Executive Coaching Day
Frequent Flyer Day
Global Love Day
International Workers' Day
Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 (in a school zone) Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Loyalty Day
Mother Goose Day
National Chocolate Parfait Day
National Day of Prayer
National Day of Reason
National Purebred Dog Day
National Salad Day
New Homeowners Day
Phone in Sick Day
Save the Rhino Day
School Principals' Day
Thank You Thursday
Therapeutic Massage Awareness Day
World Password Day
Worthy Wage Day
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Remember when Wicked came out and they didn't want you singing with the movie...until they did the sing-a-long showings?
Now!!! A Minecraft Movie is having a special "block party edition" where you are encouraged to get loose, laugh out loud, and belt out those lyrics like a true diamond-tier fan! It's all happening Friday.
Plus
Jack Black just broke a record on the Billboard Hot 100 . . . for the quickest song to land on the chart at just 34 seconds. It's "Steve's Lava Chicken" from "A Minecraft Movie".
2. "Beautiful Trip", Kid Cudi: 37 seconds
3. "PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen)", Piko-Taro: 45 seconds
4. "Little Boxes", The Womenfolk: 1 minute 2 seconds
5. "Deck the Halls", Nat King Cole: 1 minute 6 seconds
6. "Pete Davidson", Ariana Grande: 1 minute 13 seconds
7. "Difference (Interlude)", XXXTentacion: 1 minute 16 seconds
8. "Some Kind-A Earthquake", Duane Eddy His Twangy Guitar and the Rebels: 1 minute 17 seconds
9. "Forward", Beyoncé featuring James Blake: 1 minute 19 seconds
10. "What I've Been Looking For (Reprise)", Andrew Seeley and Vanessa Anne Hudgens: 1 minute 20 seconds
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A new survey asked which generation has the worst drivers . . . and only 30% of Gen Z'ers believe their generation drives "more safely" than others. That was the lowest percentage of any group. At least they're honest about it.
43% of Millennials think their generation has the safest drivers . . . 60% of Gen X'ers say the same thing . . . as do 63% of Baby Boomers.
Gen Z'ers DO struggle with distractions . . .
54% say they have eaten while driving
32% have driven while tired
15% have had an argument while driving
and 13% admit they've driven with a pet on their lap. All of those percentages were the highest of any generation.
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Artificial intelligence is starting to soak into our work AND personal lives,
27% of people say they never use A.I.
Another 27% use A.I. regularly within a week.
17% use it several times a month.
19% say they've used it here and there, but less than monthly.
Many of us are still only using it to create silly images . . . to get it to say funny stuff . . . or just to see what it can do.
A new poll asked people how they're using A.I., and here's what people said:
1. To look up the answer to a question . . . 51% of us have used A.I. for that.
2. To amuse yourself . . . 33% (most likely because it give weird answers)
3. To get clarification on complex topics . . . 33%
4. To get step-by-step instructions . . . 33%
5. To translate text into another language . . . 31%
6. To create or edit images . . . 29%
7. To provide summaries of text . . . 29%
8. To draft or proofread written content . . . 28%
9. To help with work-related tasks . . . 27%
10. To generate creative ideas . . . 26%
11. To assist in learning a new skill or hobby . . . 26%
12. To get health advice . . . 24%
13. To provide recipes or cooking advice . . . 23%
14. To get advice on a "personal matter" . . . 22%
15. To provide entertainment recommendations . . . 21%
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A husband and wife in Humboldt County in Northern California were recently picked for the SAME JURY. Yes, that can happen . . . and it's even less likely than it sounds.
There are about 136,000 people in the county, and about 106,000 of them are adults. A jury sends out a certain number of summons for each week, and only 12 are selected for each jury.
The fact that this husband and wife were picked for the same jury only has about a 0.000001% chance of happening.
And they'd do it again, if they defy the odds again. Tori says, "Serving our community together is not something new for us. This was just a different way for us to serve our community together."
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Martin Short is riding high with working with Steve Martin and Selena Gomez on Only Murders in the Building.
Next up for him is another revival of Match Game.
I guess you can say the third, since Alec Baldwin hosted one from 2016-2022.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The place where people disappear the most in the U.S. is an area called the "Alaska Triangle" . . . which is mostly wilderness. Since 1988, more than 16,000 people have disappeared there.
(this is a little more believable than the Bermuda Triangle that seems to have gone away.)
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