Small things 19 Jan

• I think that if I ever ran for office, I’d try to pull a Santos. Just in case I do someday, we may as well start things off right. I wrote two Pulitzer Prize winning books in the last two years. David Suzuki asked me if I would ghost-write his autobiography.
• Funniest thing I heard this week: [discussing George Santos] “Do you think it’s the uh chat bot? [probably referring to ChatGPT AI] Like, do you think George Santos typed in ‘lies I could tell that people wouldn’t check’?” ~Jon Stewart 
• My birth mother died in 1961, less than a week after I was born. My father died in 2023, almost 62 years later. That’s quite the span.
• “Am I adopted?” “Not yet. We haven’t found a family that will take you.”
• If your company buys everyone a subscription to LinkedIn Learning, they’re basically paying a data scraper to list your employees to other companies who would poach them. Basically.
• Hypothermia - the coolest way to die.
• "Bobby Hull said that once he clocked Jean Béliveau with an elbow when the two were lingering behind the play. It was a cheap shot, and Hull knew it. A few seconds later, he heard this deep voice ringing as if from the heavens: “Bobby,” the voice of Béliveau said, “I’m very disappointed in you.”
• Imagine the first hug. Talk about awkward. “What are you doing? Why are you grabbing me?” “Sssssshh. Just trust me.”
• Maybe the reason there have been so many UFO sightings is because in general, people are just really bad at identifying things in the sky.
• You know you’re old when you no longer have to inquire about the senior discount. They just give it to you.