You May Be Excited About The Switch 2, But Have You Considered Making The ‘Switch 2 Following Jesus’? - Op-Ed By Chet Skatington - Babylon Bee

Switch 2 is 450 bucks and that’s almost as bad as selling your soul to the devil. Jesus will give you all this and more — for free.

5 Times It Was Clear Neil Armstrong Believed He Was Searching For A New Route To India - Clickhole

2. When the rocket was going upward and he kept looking down to Earth saying, “Isn’t it back there?”

Accounts from crew members confirm that as the rocket approached the moon, Armstrong repeatedly said he was pretty sure they were supposed to make a turn, not just go upward. He was also described pointing back toward Earth while insisting he could see the Taj Mahal.

Financial Advisor Announces It’s Time To Panic, Urges Clients To Make Hasty, Emotional Decisions - Babylon Bee

“I’m encouraging all of my clients to abandon any semblance of a long-term strategy and to pull the trigger on whatever your emotions tell you to do."

I’m not much of a concert person. I’ve been to musical performances, but never at an arena, and I never went just for that specific person. I think the “biggest” artist that I’ve seen live is Matt Maher. I was excited, after discovering Forrest Frank a little over a year ago, to get tickets to his Child of God Tour.

Since I control the music in our house, I will often play Forrest throughout our day or while running errands around town. The kids sometimes even request his music. The beats are fun, there’s a degree of playfulness in the accompaniment and the lyrics, and even my youngest knows the lyrics.

Alison and I took our two oldest kids with us, which was a treat knowing that it would be a late night.

We had dinner at Chick-fil-A, handed the youngest two off to their grandmother, and drove to the arena. It was easy to park and get inside. I stopped by the concession stand to get popcorn and water, and we settled in. The arena started off comfortably full, but by time Forrest took the stage, it was completely packed. 10,000 fans, enjoying live music and prayer.

Forrest did a great job with the show. The set list was perfect, there was lots of engagement with the crowd, and even the set was fun. At one point, he plugged in his laptop, opened Logic, and showed us how he put together Good Day with all 200+ individual sound components.

There was also a peek behind the veil. Forrest shared some of his story, and the why behind his music.

In addition to his released music, we were treated to a few unreleased songs. In one of them, he invited the audience to be on the track. He got an iPhone, opened the Voice Memos app, and then recorded us shouting lyrics. I read an article, that I now cannot find, that said this is how modern music is made; artists sending each other samples recorded on their iPhones and included in the final track.

The night did not end until late. Many families with younger kids started leaving early, and I was tempted to do the same. After a few minute break, Forrest and band returned, turned up the volume, and closed out with two huge performances of Drop! and Never Get Used to This.

It was a great night.

It’s been 12 years since the series finale of The Office and NBC still promotes it heavily to get new subscribers to Peacock.

What a show.

The US Government (wastefully) spent $6.8T in all of 2024.

Trump’s tariffs destroyed $6.6T of market value in two days.

Trump Excitedly Wakes Up And Checks Under His Pillow To See If The Tariff Fairy Has Left New Manufacturing Jobs - Babylon Bee

But, alas, when Trump checked under his MyPillow, he didn’t find any new manufacturing jobs from the Tariff Fairy.

And his investments were down 10% in two trading days.

Monday night

Rushing into the Lake

Last day of the ski season

Apple Reassures Siri Team Members Feeling Disappointed and Embarrassed by Apple Intelligence Delay - MacRumors

In a ‌Siri‌ team meeting, Apple senior director Robby Walker acknowledged that employees might be feeling “angry, disappointed, burned out and embarrassed” following the ‌Siri‌ delay, but he praised the hard work of employees and the “incredibly impressive” features they developed, saying that Apple would continue to work to “ship the world’s greatest virtual assistant” to Apple users.

I think they probably need a “MobileMe” type meeting to straighten things out.

Enough Is Enough: Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Does Not Apply To Meghan Markle - Babylon Bee

The emergency ruling came following outcry over Markle’s continual attention-seeking and upheld a ruling made in the court of public opinion that the Duchess of Sussex should just shut her yap.

Trump Orders Drone Strike On Thomas Massie - Babylon Bee

Massie was wiped out in a counter-argument operation carried out by U.S. Special Forces in the nation’s capital, following an earlier threat by the president that he should be “PRIMARIED,” which sources confirmed was top-secret government code for “taken out by a drone.”

Big stack of thank you notes for work, ready to go out with tomorrow’s mail.

Putin Rejects Immediate Cease-Fire in Ukraine - WSJ

Any pause in fighting at this point would be in Ukraine’s interests, he said, adding that Russia wanted a truce that led “to a lasting peace and the elimination of the root causes” of the war, which he described as a crisis.

That didn’t take long. Good work, everyone! Now we know what Putin wants as a price for peace, the elimination of root causes, like Ukrainian sovereignty. Shouldn’t be too hard to appease that little demand.

Ukraine Turns Table on Russia With Cease-Fire Proposal, but Putin Has Little Incentive to Sign - WSJ

“If Russia says ‘yes’, that’s very good news, and we’ll begin that process and do everything we can to move that process forward,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. “If they say ‘no,’ it’ll tell us a lot about what their goals are and…what their mindset is.”

This is so naive. Bludgeon your ally, the victim, then hope the aggressor signs on? And when they don’t, what was the point?

Jeanne Shaheen Says She Won’t Run for Re-election, Complicating Democrats’ Path to a Senate Majority - WSJ

In a mid-February poll by Blueprint, a firm affiliated with Democrats, 65% of voters agreed with the statement, “No one has any idea what the Democratic Party stands for anymore, other than opposing Donald Trump.”

It was a winning strategy for 10 years; it worked until it didn’t.

Should be a flashing yellow light for GOP because they’re courting the same problem when DJT leaves the stage.

Misinformation - Indie Microblogging

Perhaps we lose something when everything is moderated at the same level. When everything is sanitized and politically correct.

This is at the heart of Micro.blog’s effort to combine both blog hosting and a social timeline. Each half of the platform has its own purpose and its own requirements for moderation. On the social side, there’s less tolerance for being a jerk or harassing others. On the open web hosting side, there’s more freedom to yell into the void.

My knife collection blogging isn’t going super well. Mostly because I tend to reach for the same sub-set of knives everyday.

New challenge: I’m going to go in sequential order. I’ve already covered #1 and #2, so on to the next!