July 21, 2023 0 The Now I Know Weekender: I Missed the Tacos Hi! Wednesday was perhaps the most annoying day in Now I Know history — well, not as annoying as the [...]
July 20, 2023 0 Where There’s a Way, There’s a Will? Pictured above is a tractor — a Model C made by a company called Case, originally from 1934. [...]
July 18, 2023 0 The Third Little Pig’s Guide to Computer Hardware In the mid-1980s, computer hardware was a good industry to be in. Corporations the world over were beginning [...]
July 17, 2023 0 How iTunes Saved Dunder Mifflin Every year, starting in the fall, Nielsen Media Research measures the viewership of television shows across [...]
July 14, 2023 0 The Weekender, July 14, 2023 Hi! I don’t have anything insightful to share this week, so I’m going to get to the Week in [...]
July 13, 2023 0 If Gilligan’s Island Were Real Pictured above is a cluster of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Fiji, the largest of the nations and [...]
July 11, 2023 0 The Flight That Went Nuts In mid-December of 2014, South Korean grocers reported a massive, 250% uptick in the sale of macadamia nuts [...]
July 10, 2023 0 “A Nude Horse is a Rude Horse” On May 27, 1959, a man named G. Clifford Prout appeared on The Today Show, NBC’s long-running news [...]
July 7, 2023 0 The Chicken Story I Don’t Know How to Write About Hi! Today, I’m going to share a story that I tried to write a few times — but I couldn’t [...]
July 5, 2023 0 The Cold War’s Most Important Hot Dog Stand Pictured above is a hot dog stand that no longer exists. And that’s probably okay — if you were [...]