“Clock watchers”
Nancy is a clock watcher.
Orange Crate Art
Various Sardines
Cryptocurrency and jazz.
Donkey Hodie rides again
Coming to PBS, a new show inspired by Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Donkey Hodie, with Purple Panda, Duck Duck, Bob Dog, and Donkey Hodie, the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie, now known as Grampy Hodie.
Rails to Sales
A poster promoting subway advertising posters, by Otis Shepard and Dorothy Van Gorder.
Keyboard Cleaner
Jan Lehnardt’s Keyboard Cleaner is a tiny free app for macOS that does one thing only: it locks the keyboard for easy cleaning.
NYPL top ten
King of the hill, top of the heap: Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day (1962).
Ko-Rec-Type, Part No. 3
A neater and more discreet fix than what could be had with correction fluid, aka Liquid Paper, aka Wite-Out.
TV academics
“Professor Laird, the cucumber sandwiches are running out. Would you like me to get some more?”
Strapped for time
One way to really know what time it is: try finding a watch strap at a friendly neighborhood multinational retailer.
Petrie opines
“And there’s nothing better than barbecued ribs and beans on a cold winter’s day.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“They have no matches.”
A name from Nancy
If anyone doubts that the comic strip Nancy is, as they say, having a moment — a character’s name is an answer in the New Yorker crossword.
“The irony is almost too obvious”
“In order to stave off an impeachment conviction for putting his own personal interests above the national interest, Trump once again put his own interests above the national interest.”
$200,000
“Bestselling authors Stephen King and Don Winslow have pledged to give $200,000 to charity if Donald Trump’s press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, holds a press conference this week.”
“Irish Haiku”
Sounds Irish to me. Or maybe like Gertrude Stein. No, Irish, I’m sure.
Hop, skip, jump
“A couple of hundred years ago there was nobody here.”
TUMS
In the “I was today years old when I learned/realized” department.
In the Dark Ages
Plus ça change.
A Post-it dad joke
A dad joke on a Post-it Note, by Doug Savage, creator of Savage Chickens.
Phallocentrism and sniffs
“U.S. armed forces are stronger [sniff ] than ever before [sniff ]. Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal, and fast [sniff ].”
Seashore keeps improving
Having used Seashore for at least nine years, I’m happy to donate.
ICYMI
“Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.”
No words
No presidential address in the wake of Iranian missile strikes against Iraqi bases housing United States troops.
Becoming a better learner
A helpful conversation from WGBH’s Innovation Hub.
A catalog saved
The Washington Post reports on an all-volunteer effort to save the contents of the card catalog at the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library.
Mystery actor
This one would baffle me, so I’m guessing it’ll be easy for someone else.
Some madeleines
Zippy, Ernie Bushmiller, and Proust.
Another circuit
Cf. the Chitlin ’ Circuit.
How to improve writing (no. 86)
A sentence from The New Yorker.
Now would have been the time
It was Friday when I learned that “I was today years old when I learned/realized” is a meme.