Scotch Tape, 100s of Uses
The Bozosphere just noticed an interesting comment on a box of Scotch Tape. Hundreds of uses! Who knew? We got together at a local dive bar after work one day and tried to think of hundreds of uses, but we…
Category Mishegas
Waiting for the Messiah or Someone Like Him
We were recently in Costco deciding whether to buy a five-gallon tub of mayonnaise when we spotted something rather unusual. It was a very large, gargantuan even, box of Shabbos candles. On it was the lettering in very large print,…
Bucket List by Proxy
Just so we all start together, your bucket list is a compendium of things you want to do before you die or “kick the bucket”. This usually consists of reasonable things that you could do given time, money, and good…
Current Projects at Bozosphere Labs
You may think that we at the Bozosphere are a bunch of lazy bums who just go out for coffee in the morning, have lunch with our pals, nap in the afternoon, grab dinner somewhere and watch TV the rest…
The Tastee Trifecta
They said it couldn’t be done. Actually, they said it shouldn’t be done. In suburban Washington DC, there are three Tastee Diners. Actually, there are now two as one closed this week. The Tastee Trifecta is having a meal in…
ChatGPT versus ChatMEP
With all the brouhaha about ChapGPT, the artificial intelligence program that claims to write competent English on the subject of your choice, we thought we would compare it with ChatMEP, the program being developed here in the Bozosphere. Below you’ll…
So you want to be a Stoic?
So You Wanna Be a Stoic? — First draft. Work in Progress Act 1, Scene 1 The action takes place in The Think Shop, a modern hip store in a major city’s major shopping street, the kind of store that…
Adult Day Camp
Almost all of us fortunate enough to have gone to day camp as children recall those wonderful summer days when we got to play all day and have great times with our summer buddies. Sadly, we grew up, acquired jobs,…
OCEC — the newest commodity producer organization
Yes, oil is a commodity without which the world as we know it cannot exist without. But there’s another commodity that’s equally important but doesn’t get the press that OPEC does. It’s coffee. We all know people who simply cannot…
Covid Poker: A Game for Our Times
I’m working on a new game called COVID Poker. It’s a variant of 6 stud high-low. Before any cards are dealt to the players the dealer exposes 2 cards. The first is called Covid, the second is called Vaccine. If…
New Garlic Standard Announcement
Our curious and devoted readers have been puzzled by recipes that call for some number of cloves of garlic. Because they care about these matters, they have likely that cloves of garlic some in vastly different sizes. In the Bozosphere…
Social Distancing Tools
Here at the Bozosphere, we’re all about helping our readers, few that they may be. So we have some great new ideas for social distancing tools which are going to keep you safe and flatten the curve. There are many…
Beach Boys Improvement Project
The Beach Boys are among the cream of the crop of American pop music. It’s presumptuous of us to “improve” their lyrics, but times change, ideas change, and even the great ones need a bit of tweaking. Our diligent staff…
Tattoo Breakthrough — No more forever
Suppose in a moment of madness you had inked up your body and now deeply regret it. You’ve broken up with your sweetie and no longer want to see the name on your arm. That flower you thought so pretty…
Kentucky Clerk Refuses Wedding License to Gay Couple, but I Have the Solution.
The New York Times, a bastion of the Liberal Establishment, said on 1 Sept. that “A county clerk in Kentucky who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds denied licenses to gay couples on Tuesday, despite the Supreme Court refusal…
Power Outage and Avagadro
Today we had another power outage. This one was caused by a mowing machine hitting a power line support cable, lowering the cable so that a Metro car hit the line itself and we were powerless for 3 hours. But…