Monthly Archives: April 2019

In 2007, a man rented a tuxedo in Colorado and told the clerk, “Today is the day he will reign, and the emperor is coming.” This worried the clerk, because the man was carrying a gun when he rented the … Continue reading →

  An Oxford University academic says aliens are breeding with humans to produce a hybrid species capable of saving the planet from climate change. [1] Call that variable X1. (Background: “Alien Visitations and the End of Humanity”, Ersjdamoo’s Blog, April … Continue reading →

An Oxford University academic says aliens are breeding with humans to produce a hybrid species capable of saving the planet from climate change. [1] This is essentially a mathematics problem. Numbers allowed are 1 through 9 (no zeros). Abba plus … Continue reading →

The science was settled. The statistics all agreed. Donald Trump had no chance of being elected. It was then that a Black Swan event occurred. Even Ersjdamoo was stunned to find, in the early dawn of November 9, 2016, that … Continue reading →

It was ten years ago this month that swine flu terror erupted. A “unique form of swine flu” caused Mike Stobbe, the Associated Press medical writer, to ask, “Is this the big one?” [1] The influenza epidemic of 1918 had … Continue reading →

The German anti-tobacco movement was the most powerful anti-smoking movement in the world during the 1930s and early 1940s. But those confounded Nazis couldn’t get it together: Some Nazi leaders condemned smoking and several of them openly criticized tobacco consumption, … Continue reading →

In January 1934, geophysicist mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt was seeking a lost city deep in the earth beneath Los Angeles. A wise Hopi Elder, Little Chief Greenleaf, provided the engineer with a legend telling of how there are three … Continue reading →

Hercules went down into Hades (Hell) to bring back Cerberus, the hound of Hades, a multi-headed dog that guards the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. A “low fellow” had given Hercules many such labors. The phantom of Hercules … Continue reading →

Odysseus sailed past the sirens, past the rocks of Scylla and Charybdis. There was danger from these sirens. Many a sailor before had been entranced by their “news” and had gone mad. The sailors all had plugged their ears with … Continue reading →

Today is 4/19, an irrational number. (Technically 4/19 is a rational number, but 4 divided by 19 equals 0.210526316… and Ersjdamoo calls that irrational. Quibbles from irritated mathematicians are welcome.) On the ship sailing to the lost land of Ultima … Continue reading →