The Daily Dose/July 13, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT: The headline was only moderately interesting:
Could Gen Z Free the World From Email?
We hadn’t given the matter much thought, but we clicked on it anyway. It talked about how kids in the workplace nowadays prefer almost anything – carrier pigeon, graffiti, old-style ransom notes – to email nowadays. So much so, that it is actually causing no small amount of anxiety in these precious snowflake’s lives.
Dry, Technical Matter: Although we have to be honest, we don’t email too much, either, at least personally, messaging on Facebook having replaced email as the preferred method of personal communication with yours truly.
I’m Sure There’s A Point Around Here Somewhere: The story noted that for those under 30, sharing on Google docs, plus Zoom and iMessaging, among other methors, are preferred to email nowadays.
LOL: A lot of this article was boring – sort of like this item – but our favorite part was when one kid said “the most stressful thing” was checking to see if his boss emailed him.
Ten Hut: All right Gen Zers, listen up: the boss will always be a stressor. It’s what they do, it’s how the workplace is built, especially with the bad ones. Because if it’s not email it will be some other way and it might be particularly irksome if your boss is trying to communicate with you regarding you Gen Zers adorable, collective trait of being late for pretty much every goddamn thing. There is going to come a time when you’re going to have to man/chick up and take it.
The Bottom Line: So if email isn’t allowed into your safe space, OK, more power to you. Feel free to revolutionize workplace communications because your generation is going to be expected to do that anyway. Just be sure to email me my login information.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow survives a yapping guest. Today’s Diary.
About midnight a lady from Texas arrived who had just made her reservation…She was one of those yapping sorts who can talk for extended periods of time without saying anything at al, but with Sparrow guidance (SG), we manage to get thru the check-in process in less than 20 minutes and then she asks about the fire north of here which was funny because she made it sound like it was a tourist attraction, like Disneyland or Mount Rushmore.
Well, word had obviously reached bum-fuck Texas that ol’ Sparrow is the new fire information clearinghouse for western America…Hell, I don’t know…Based on her tone I thought she was looking to set up camping chairs and make a day of it and maybe I knew where tickets were being sold at…I told her, honestly, that I knew very little about it, tho there would be some soot on her car in the morning.
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On This Date
The long march to today.
In 1787 – The Confederation Congress of the United States passes the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, an attempt to organize land acquired from Great Britain following the Revolution. The ordinance covered lands bordered by the Great Lakes and what is now Canada to the north, the Ohio River to the south, the Mississippi River to the west and Pennsylvania to the east and also addressed the admission of new states. The territory had belonged to Great Britain, following their defeat of France in the Seven Years’ War that ended in 1763.
In 1896 – Ed Delahanty of the Philadelphia Phillies ties the major league record for most home runs in a game in a 9-8 loss to the Chicago Cubs, then known as the Colts. Delahanty hit four home runs to tie the mark established by Bobby Lowe in 1894 and the mark has been tied 16 times since, most recently by J.D. Martinez of Arizona in 2017. It was the first of two times a member of the Phillies would hit four home runs in a game against the Cubs, with Mike Schmidt doing it in 1976.
In 2019 – Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the 14th of a record 19 consecutive weeks with Old Town Road. The song was also in its 14th of a record 20 consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and the song made Cyrus only the third act besides Elvis and the Everly Brothers to hit #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 plus its soul and country charts. It was the tenth song in Hot 100 history to spend at least 14 weeks at #1 and the records for weeks at #1 still stand on both charts.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Fighting against destiny seemed impossible for the moment.
Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The major league record for most sacrifice bunts in an inning is two, done by Al Benton, a pitcher with the Detroit Tigers. He did it in the third inning of an August 6, 1941 win over the Cleveland Indians and the Tigers got eleven runs in the inning. Benton is also known as the only pitcher to have faced both Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle.
Today’s Stumper
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When and where was the last meeting of the Confederation Congress? – Answer next time!
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