I’ve been seeing people saying there’s antifreeze in the COVID vaccines. The TL;DR version is there isn’t, but let me try to explain where they’re getting this from in case you’ve heard it or you hear someone talking about it. One of the ingredients in both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is something called Polyethylene …
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I Want To See The Coffin, Coughin’ Be Damned!
I saw this story around Mother’s Day, and although restrictions are less severe than they were last month, I think it’s still worth talking about. There was a Leamington cemetery that decided to close its gates on Mother’s Day because of all the potential for crowds when people were being discouraged from gathering. Because of …
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Do You Need To Be A Mathematician To Go To St. Ives?
I have to ask this. Did anybody else get driven crazy by the St. Ives song when they were kids? Or was it just me? As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, …
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Black Mirror Made Me Look In The Mirror
So I finally got Netflix. I haven’t used it super much, but I go through fits and starts. But the first thing I did was watch the most recent season of Black Mirror and then watch Bandersnatch, that choose your own adventure episode of the show, and yes, it is accessible, and very able to …
What a Crumby Concept!
It’s a really weird experience when you suddenly stop and think about an analogy that you use all the time, and realize that it’s kind of no good. This happened to me the other day. I was training someone on our system at work, and I told him “If you ever want to find your …
I DON’T LIKE SPAM!…On My Phone
I learned something that apparently has been a thing for at least four years. If you get those spam texts, you can report them to your service provider by forwarding the spam messages to 7726, which spells “spam”. Depending on your provider, what happens after that may vary, but pretty much any North American provider …
We Won’t Be Counted Among The Jailed Population! Woo!
Well, it’s time to do the census again, and we did it last weekend. We probably would have done it relatively quickly, but my friend told me it was due on May 11, so we hurried up and got it done. We were surprised that they would send out the census and demand it be …
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A Little Bit Of Vaccine History
As we moved closer to being able to get COVID vaccines, I wondered how things went when the Polio vaccine rolled out. Were people scared of it? Did people think it got developed too quickly? Were there all these conspiracy theories? Then I saw this story about what happened when the Polio vaccine arrived, and …
Cool App, Boring Name
The other night, I saw something on the news about an app that people can use to identify ticks, called eTick. If you or your pet end up with a tick stuck to you, once you get it removed, you can take a picture of it, submit it to this app and someone can tell …
I Totally Agree With This Guy
I’m a member at the Funny Music Project, and every month I get a newsletter full of album and video goodness. This gem was among all the new awesome (uh-oh, should I say awesome anymore?). I wished it had been around when I wrote about yeet because it could have fit perfectly. I think the …