Why is everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and not The Wreck of the Hesperus (as illustrated by Wally Wood, MAD Magazine, 1954)? jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrec...
![4 cartoon panels with lines from Longfellow’s “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
1. Then up spake an old sailor, / Had sailed the Spanish Main
[Popeye: “Spake?”]
2. [Popeye, his coat and hat blown off:] “I pray thee, put into yonder port, / For I fear a hurricane.”
3. [Popeye, his shirt and pants blown off:] “Last night the moon had a golden ring, / And tonight no moon we see!”
4. The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
[Skipper, blowing a facsimile of his wife from his pipe:] HOO HAH
[Chorus of 3 sailors] Not wife! ...WHIFF!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreibzsqqcbr5qm2wgjxobth27fzxktm3ck7thmadyc6lfuqyrx3ustm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why is everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and not The Wreck of the Hesperus (as illustrated by Wally Wood, MAD Magazine, 1954)? jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrec...
You can eat blueberries at any time.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
You can eat blueberries at any time.
If I never open this I’ll live forever
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If I never open this I’ll live forever
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
![Alfred died on 26 October 899 at the age of 50 or 51.[164] How he died is unknown, but he suffered throughout his life with a painful and unpleasant illness. His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms, and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. It is thought that he had either Crohn's disease or haemorrhoids.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreie73st34yjalq5pkt7pn5ngc6ghmdaascfulwkvw64xsdykmqhrxm@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
I’ve always found it a bit funny how the App Store handles age ratings for e.g. banking apps. I guess it’s not offensive content, per se, but really?
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’ve always found it a bit funny how the App Store handles age ratings for e.g. banking apps. I guess it’s not offensive content, per se, but really?
![Santa’s Little Helper and Snowball II
[Growling] We love... you. [Meows]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreiae6qqyrxfr3yl2qyebe6dhyjhuxgtddumqudin3onlwudiz4dqbe@jpeg)
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
I just learned that this exists
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I just learned that this exists
When she swore on her children’s lives this was true, I wasn’t impressed, because who knows whether she cares about her children’s lives? But then she clarified so now I believe her
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When she swore on her children’s lives this was true, I wasn’t impressed, because who knows whether she cares about her children’s lives? But then she clarified so now I believe her
What was the starkest vote disparity between adjacent districts? Perhaps Brooklyn ED 75 (Mamdani +60) vs. ED 49 (Cuomo +70)
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What was the starkest vote disparity between adjacent districts? Perhaps Brooklyn ED 75 (Mamdani +60) vs. ED 49 (Cuomo +70)
Even if one given refresh yielded an accurate time, it would only be by accident; they all sound equally authoritative.
One last try. Everything’s phrased differently, but same outcome: variables correct, conclusion wrong.
My conclusion: don’t expect basic, fully knowable facts from AI Overview
One last try. Everything’s phrased differently, but same outcome: variables correct, conclusion wrong.
My conclusion: don’t expect basic, fully knowable facts from AI Overview
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Even if one given refresh yielded an accurate time, it would only be by accident; they all sound equally authoritative.
One last try. Everything’s phrased differently, but same outcome: variables correct, conclusion wrong.
My conclusion: don’t expect basic, fully knowable facts from AI Overview
One last try. Everything’s phrased differently, but same outcome: variables correct, conclusion wrong.
My conclusion: don’t expect basic, fully knowable facts from AI Overview
Now we’re getting somewhere, discovering the crucial data point that the location is at mile 8. Given that, plus the expected pace, plus the start time, it should be trivial to calculate the... oh, I see, it’s completely wrong
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Now we’re getting somewhere, discovering the crucial data point that the location is at mile 8. Given that, plus the expected pace, plus the start time, it should be trivial to calculate the... oh, I see, it’s completely wrong
OK, we’ve lost the table—n.b. all of these are just refreshing the identical query—but gained a precise time. (Also an edifying 8th-grader-didn’t-do-the-reading-ass paragraph that basically says “runners go fast.”) Can the women really get from the start to this location in 12 minutes, though?
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
OK, we’ve lost the table—n.b. all of these are just refreshing the identical query—but gained a precise time. (Also an edifying 8th-grader-didn’t-do-the-reading-ass paragraph that basically says “runners go fast.”) Can the women really get from the start to this location in 12 minutes, though?
Wanted to find out when to arrive at a certain location to watch the NYC Marathon. Let’s ask AI Overview!
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
![[Google results for "when will the first professional runners reach lafayette avenue"]
Al Overview
The first professional runners are expected to reach the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn at approximately
8:50 AM ET, and the intersection of Lafayette and Classon Avenues around 9:00 AM ET
during the NYC Marathon on Sunday, November
2, 2025.
Here is a general timeline for the professional divisions passing through the area:
Division / Start Time (Staten Island) / Est. Time at Lafayette Ave.
Professional Women / 8:35 AM /~8:50 AM
Professional Men / 9:05 AM / ~9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Handcycles & Athletes with disabilities / 8:22 AM / ~8:40 AM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreihbqbgfqkst2t2bts2r5je445b7qsnuviwvh5ffx6tzb6mq3mbfee@jpeg)
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wanted to find out when to arrive at a certain location to watch the NYC Marathon. Let’s ask AI Overview!
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
First attempt, looks pretty good, even breaks the info down into a handy table. Though it seems a bit suspect that the men will start at 9:05 and may arrive at 9:00. Maybe we should try again?
OK, we’ve lost the table—all of these are just refreshing the identical query—but gained a precise time. (Also an edifying 8th-grader-didn’t-do-the-reading-ass paragraph that basically says “runners go fast.”) Can the women really get from the start to this location in 12 minutes, though?
November 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
OK, we’ve lost the table—all of these are just refreshing the identical query—but gained a precise time. (Also an edifying 8th-grader-didn’t-do-the-reading-ass paragraph that basically says “runners go fast.”) Can the women really get from the start to this location in 12 minutes, though?
Wonder if this creates a bit of a perverse incentive for how writers and editors structure articles
November 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wonder if this creates a bit of a perverse incentive for how writers and editors structure articles
Is this some sort of time travel scenario
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Is this some sort of time travel scenario
Remembering this Brooklyn establishment (clearly with a cease-and-desist order somewhere in its history)
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Remembering this Brooklyn establishment (clearly with a cease-and-desist order somewhere in its history)
Actually I don’t think that’s how CAT scans work
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Actually I don’t think that’s how CAT scans work
