Will Hartzell-Baird's Blog, page 2

Presidents' Day

Happy Presidents' Day! Let's do that same thing I did last time again!WHAT IS THIS HOLIDAY?Every year, on the third Monday in February, the President will emerge from hisburrow and, if he sees his shadow or also if he does not see his shadow,there'll be six more years of political gridlock....

Groundhog Day

Happy Groundhog Day! And since we're all here anyway, why don't we take a minuteto discuss the question on all of our minds about Groundhog Day: "Seriously,wtf?"Admit it, you've wondered from time to time why there's a holiday named after agiant squirrel, and what they have to do with weather.

PieCaken

I don't know if you're aware of this, but the pandemic has been hard on somepeople.So it was that last year, my wife and I decided to do something special forThanksgiving. The difficulty, however, lay in the fact that the reason it washard on us in particular is that we couldn't safely go anywh...

Shark Attacks

You know what's a terrible place to go during a global pandemic?Florida.On an unrelated note, I was recently having a conversation with aFloridian���we'll call her Flo, to protect her privacy���and the subject of sharkscame up.I can't remember exactly how the conversation went, since���for reaso...

Feeling Insecure

Security questions are terrible.I mean, we can start with the obvious���you���re in the middle of signing up forsome service that you were probably hoping to use now, when suddenly you���reprompted to fill out a pop quiz about yourself, and the ���right��� answer isn���tnecessarily the one that���s accurate���...

Okay, So He's Not a Blobfish

Regrettably, I need to backpedal from my last post: Ted Cruz does not, in fact,resemble the mangled corpse of a deep-sea fish. Physically, I mean. Obviously ifwe���re talking personality-wise, they���re virtually identical.Please, be honest with yourself.

A Brief Discussion of the Blobfish

I would like to take a moment to discuss the blobfish, or the Psychrolutesmarcidus.From Wikimedia Commons. Not Kirby. I'd use a photo, but I don't want to pay forthe rights. [blobfish-vector.png]The most famous photo of Mr.

Microchips for Everyone!

I know that ever since my most recent post, you���ve all been on the edge of yourseats, so I���ll ease your concerns now: I���ve gotten my second dose. There���s beena lot of talk about how awful the side effects are for the second shot, so whenI went in this past Monday, I was ready to get laid out for ...

Doing Shots

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