Showing posts with label Funtime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funtime. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Monday, March 18, 2019

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Monday, July 24, 2017

National Tequila Day

Friday, April 21, 2017

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Red Eye - Last Show

Ten years ago, Red Eye brightened the late, late night TV landscape.

It ended on Friday. The show's cancellation was incredibly abrupt. In an era of year-long retirement goodbyes (Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jon Stewart) and endlessly hyped final seasons of long-running shows, this was a sort of cruel move by FOX News. It's as if they didn't want to deal with the response from Red Eye fans.

I guess it's fitting. The show came out of nowhere and it leaves the same way.


















Nothing can replace Red Eye.

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Penny in the Water Bottle



It's fun watching people have fun.

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Iggy Pop, Milwaukee - 40 Years Ago

Forty years ago today, Iggy Pop performed at the Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee.

David Bowie played keyboards and sang backup.


















Live, from The Idiot tour, 1977:









Saturday, March 18, 2017

Sunday, March 12, 2017

In Defense of Daylight Saving Time

We lose an hour of sleep on March 12.

Whoop dee doo.

From Bloomberg:

If you hate daylight saving time and all the confusion and sleep deprivation it brings, you now have solid data on your side. A wave of new research is bolstering arguments against changing our clocks twice a year.

The case for daylight saving time has been shaky for a while. The biannual time change was originally implemented to save energy. Yet dozens of studies around the world have found that changing the clocks has either minuscule or non-existent effects on energy use.

...The suffering of the spring time change begins with the loss of an hour of sleep. That might not seem like a big deal, but researchers have found it can be dangerous to mess with sleep schedules. Car accidents, strokes, and heart attacks spike in the days after the March time change. It turns out that judges, sleep deprived by daylight saving, impose harsher sentences.

“Even mild changes to sleep patterns can affect human capital in significant ways,” two Cornell University researchers, Lawrence Jin and Nicolas Ziebarth, wrote last year.
I don't consider losing just one hour "sleep deprivation."

Anyone calling the disappearance of that one hour to be sleep deprivation doesn't know what it's like to be deprived of sleep.

I don't like losing the hour but the sleep loss is not a big deal at all. I really like the extra daylight. Personally, it gives me more energy.

I would be happy with permanent daylight saving time and not switching back and forth. More sunlight later - that's good. I can't stand it when the sun sets at 4:15 in December. Too much darkness. The day ends too soon.

Celebrate the light!


Note: I tried to schedule this post to publish at 2:00 AM, but it automatically went to 3:00 AM. Apparently, Blogger isn't allowing 2:00 AM posts on March 12, because there is no 2:00 AM.





Saturday, December 10, 2016

Saturday Night