I kinda did a double take with your "In case you aren't familiar with Alanis Morrisette's hit", but then I did the math. Yikes! Almost 30 years old ..already.. I think it has aged much better than Smells Like Teen Spirit, but that's just me I guess.

23 - I didn't know until I enlisted in the Air Force. It was an automatic disqualification from the electronics field. Guess they didn't want me cutting the wrong wire. . .

My first thought was, I wonder how much this costs? And my second thought was George Carlin: "Where the hell's the blue food?"

I always get a kick when something that's been around forever is all of sudden 'discovered' due to lack of historical knowledge. Not surprising in this case if your only music input is from some blonde woman. Anyway, if the fade out has been around forever, how can Mental Floss make the claim it was invented to appease programmers? That's pretty weak. Can't argue that D.J.s needed time to yak, but to give them that there were often two versions of a song - the album version and the one released for radio. And I distinctly remember a time back in the day when some radio stations were proclaiming "Have you noticed we're not talking over the songs?" Anyway, here's a couple articles that also explain the fade out: https://globalnews.ca/news/4615641/why-some-songs-fade-out-alan-cross/ and https://slate.com/culture/2014/09/the-fade-out-in-pop-music-why-dont-modern-pop-songs-end-by-slowly-reducing-in-volume.html

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Other than reading, music has been one great love since the 60s. What I discovered over time is that every 10+ years, when music formats changed (evolved), radio station formats would change to "classic". Guess they just wanted to keep their current base. It wasn't a problem because I could normally find a new station that kept current. Until the 2000s. The DC area did this in the 80s but there was no replacement. It got to the point I was driving home on my hour plus commute listening to AM news-talk and thinking to myself "This is how it happens. I've become my parents." True story: My first exposure to Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was Weird Al's version on MTV. Had no idea who Nirvana was. But I knew that musically, Weird Al was usually right on so I had to go on the hunt for this band named Nirvana. Then I moved to Maine, found my favorite station evah, and all was right with the world. For about ten years.

Yeah COBOL! Hard to forget Y2K if you worked in IT and had your once in a lifetime New Year's Eve millennium ruined. No Drinking. My company did indeed spends millions, maybe tens of millions fixing that. Sure it was important but everyone knew the end of the world stuff was a joke. Still, the [panic] fear, at a lot of levels was real. I was asked to store a couple of 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel for our generator in my garage. The fastest immediate NO to management I ever gave.

That's awesome. The embedded link in the story also shows the letter and offers up a couple of other comics featuring Charlotte:https://lettersofnote.com/2009/11/02/the-ax/"

Candlepin bowling is not as easy as it looks but then I've never seen so many 7-10 splits made. It's great for children due to the small size of the balls. You can make reservations and have gutter guards on the lanes so the kiddies never miss hitting something. My score is much better with them too! Great post. Rob Caldwell is a Maine institution and 207 is a highly regarded nightly show.

At least there's an arrow! Some older models don't have that. In the freezer world, the higher the number the colder it gets.

I found them pretty quick. But I frequently put my glasses on a bed and I was betting that for anyone who does that, the general "put down" area would be similar. Maybe we need of those useless research studies.

January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.

By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools.

From The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin. Very good read.

11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.