Hasselhoff Wednesday: Hoff Wars

May the Hoff be with you.

Always.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

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Review Tuesday: Murderbot - Season One (2025)

  

 

MUR

DER

BOT

Season One

(2025)

A security android hacks his own control unit, essentially freeing himself, but goes on to perform an exceptional job for his clients. 

During the summer of 2025 the ten episode series MURDERBOT came out on APPLE PLUS. I didn't know anything about it until the end of 2025 when my BFF asked if I wanted to binge the series with her. With a name like MURDERBOT, how can I say no? 

 

Okay, to start, SecBoy gives himself the name Murderbot within the first five minutes of the series after hacking his governor. No real spoilers there and the role is played expertly by Alexander Skarsgard. Season one of this show is an action packed, fun, sci-fi adventure. I don't want to say too much more than that because this show is totally worth your time to watch. 

 

Now I need to get my hands on the books that the series is based on.   

 

 

 

 

  

Dante Day - 2026

Dante would've been 27 today

We miss our little girl

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

mot \moh\, noun: 

1. a pithy or witty remark; bon mot.
2. Archaic. a note on a horn, bugle, etc.

Mot comes from the French word of the same spelling, which in turn is rooted in the Latin word muttum which meant "utterance." It is related to the word motto.

Petri Douche

1. A place/location where a lot of douchebags are known to congregate.
2. A place that attracts and seemingly breeds chavs/douchebags/jackwagons/etc etc.

Oh hell no I'm not going to Wetherspoons, that place is a petri douche!
Or:
urgh why would you want to go to Las Vegas, that place is such a petri douche.

History

• light bulb: Thomas Edison got a patent for his incandescent light (1880)
• Leningrad: the 880-day siege ended; more than half the city's population died during the harsh winter of 1942 (1944)
• Auschwitz: Nazi concentration and extermination camp was liberated by the Red Army (1945)
• Nevada Test Site: nuclear testing began with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat (1951)
• Outer Space Treaty: began collecting signatories; it bans WMDs in space and says the moon is communal property (1967)
• Apollo I: during a preflight test, a cockpit fire trapped and killed NASA astronauts Roger Chaffee, Virgil (Gus) Grissom and Ed White; they were to have made the first manned voyage to the moon (1967)

Birthdays

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756

  
• Lewis Carroll 1832
• Jerome Kern 1885
• Harry Ruby (Rubinstein) 1895
• Hyman Rickover 1900
• William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908
• Milt Raskin 1916
• Skitch (Lyle) Henderson 1918
• David Seville (Chipmunks) 1919
• Donna Reed 1921
• Giovanni Verga 1922
• Bobby 'Blue' Bland 1930
• George Follmer 1934
• Troy Donahue 1936
• James Cromwell 1940
• Tommy Cromwell 1940
• Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) 1944
• Nedra Talley (The Ronettes) 1947
• Milkail Baryshnikov 1948
• Carl Mannerheim 1951
• Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy) 1951
• Seth Justman (The J. Geils Band) 1951
• Cheryl White (The Whites) 1955
• Richard Young (The Kentucky Headhunters) 1955
• Mimi Rogers 1956
• Janick Robert Gers 1957 (Iron Maiden) 
  Cris Collinsworth (NFL) 1959
• Gillian Gilbert (New Order) 1961
• Margo Timmons (Cowboy Junkies) 1961
• Bridget Fonda 1964
• Tracy Lawrence 1968
• Mike Patton (Faith No More) 1968
• Mark Owen 1972
• Mackenenzie Lynn Adkins 1998
• Dante 1999 (1/27/99 - 7/4/2010) diamond back terrapin (turtle), nuclear physicist, noble prize winner, 3 time Oscar winner, 6 Pulitzer prizes, ninja, dragon slayer, loved krill, had a pink nose.

 

 

  

Look forward to SHYLA!

Shyla Volbeck

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Find her full set at

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Hotty of the day

cred to ou

Monday, January 26, 2026

wamble \WOM-buhl, -uhl, WAM-\, verb:

1. to move unsteadily.
2. to feel nausea.
3. (of the stomach) to rumble; growl.

noun:

• 1. an unsteady or rolling movement.
• 2. a feeling of nausea.

Wamble may be related to the Norwegian word vamla which means "to stagger." It entered English in the 1300s.

Haters Gonna Hate

• A phrase that represents ones complete and total disregard of another's negative comment towards the original person.

*Guy 1 is walking down the street and passes Guy 2*
Guy 2: Why are you so ugly?
Guy 1: Haters Gonna Hate. 
*Keeps on walking*

 Dude 1: Hey Fatty!
Dude 2: Haters Gonna Hate

History

• Vicente Yáñez Pinzón discovered Brazil (1500)

  
• Rum Rebellion: armed takeover of New South Wales, Australia (1808)
• Cullinan Diamond: was discovered in the Premier Mine, South Africa; it is the largest gem-quality diamond ever found and the stones that were cut and polished from it are now part of the British crown jewels (1905)
• Republic Day of India: India's constitution took effect two and a half years after independence (1950)
• Lotus 1-2-3: the popular spreadsheet software for the IBM PC was released (1983)
• Phantom of the Opera: opened on Broadway; it is now the longest-running Broadway musical (1988)

Birthdays

• Douglas MacArthur 1880
  

  
• Stephane Grappelli 1908
• Cora Baird 1912
• William Prince 1913
• James Van Heusen 1913
• William Hopper 1915
• Derek Bond 1919
• Page Cavanaugh (Page Cavanaugh Trio) 1922
• Anne Jeffreys 1923
• Paul Newman 1925
• Joan Leslie 1925
• Roger Vadim 1928
• Jules Feiffer 1929
• Mary Murphy 1931
• Claude Gray (The Tall Texan) 1932
• Huey "Piano" Smith 1934
• Bob Uecker 1935
• Scott Glenn 1942
• Jean Knight 1943
• Angela Davis 1944
• Gene Siskel 1946
• David Strathairn 1949
• David Briggs (The Little River Band) 1951
• Lucinda Williams 1953 - Singer
• Eddie Van Halen 1957 - Guitar player (Van Halen)
• Ellen DeGeneres 1958 - Actress-comedian.
• Norman Hassan (UB40) 1958 - Musician
• Tom Keifer 1961 - Musician (Cinderella) 
• Wayne Gretzky 1961 - Hockey hall-of-famer.
• Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!) 1963
• Jazzie B. (Soul II Soul) 1963
• Kirk Franklin 1970
  LeeAnna Vamp 1987