Are We There Yet?
May 28 - June 3, 2018
By Jay Edwards
jedwards@dailydata.com
I made it to another birthday this month. It was my 61st, which is the 18th prime number. I’m a bit past my prime though, well, just a bit.
It was a good birthday, thanks to well-wishers and family and HB’s BBQ, the jumbo pork with beans and Lay’s chips. No fried pie this time though, as I anticipated KM’s Coca Cola cake that would come later.
I also walked nine holes at First Tee, where I had no double bogeys, as well as continuing my half a century sad streak of no holes-in-one.
Later in the day I checked in with Facebook and saw I had some happy birthday wishes from friends, most of whom I even knew. I also noticed a post about the great Yanny/Laurel debate and why NBC says we hear either one or the other. I heard Yanny when I gave myself the test, which, scientists say, means I’m 61 and love BBQ and Coca Cola cake. If I had heard Laurel, I’d be a conservative owner of a minnow farm who would have had multiple hole-in-ones by now.
The story also said that the Yanny/Laurel dispute was started by social media influencer and vlogger Cloe Feldman, who tweeted a simple question about the short recording. So I now know there is a profession known as social media influencer, but I still didn’t know what a vlogger was, so I summoned Google again, who told me it’s a video logger, and that if I’d follow these five easy tips I could make a whole bunch of money myself by vlogging. So that’s good news.
Next was a story from USA Today about Senator Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), who says the rise in the oceans is not from climate change after all but rather rocks and dirt falling from cliffs into the seas. But scientists are pretty skeptical, alleging Brooks is dead wrong and that he probably hears Laurel, not Yanny.
Next, my old buddy Drew, a longtime newspaperman in the Big Easy, posted a story that a former candidate for the Kenner, Louisiana mayor’s job, Dona Reynaud, got in a fight with a man and a woman at the Treasure Chest Casino.
Reynaud, who appeared to be intoxicated, “removed both of her high heel shoes, ran towards the man and punched him in the face,” causing him to fall out of his chair, a report said. Reynaud then toppled over onto the man and they “continued to tussle on the ground” until security arrived.
I don’t know, but if Reynaud ever runs for mayor of Kenner again they might want to give her another look. I mean, don’t you want someone who will go all out and “tussle” for your rights?
And apparently in a last ditch effort to be named principal of the year, Brandy Dillin’s plan backfired when she was arrested recently. According to a post from KATV, Dillin, the principal of the Beebe Middle School, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after providing booze to kids at a party in her home. Some of the minors interviewed by police came clean, spilling their guts that some pot was also inhaled during the party. My, oh my.
Last came a happier post from Sports Illustrated, about Ben Bender, who made his first ever hole-in-one during his last round of golf at the age of 93. Bender told his local paper in Zanesville, Ohio that the “Lord knew this was to be his last round and gave him a hole-in-one.”
Way to go Ben, and thanks for keeping my hope alive.
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