Hey, how are ya? Still snowed in here in beautiful Southeastern USA, Earth, Universe. The missus and I have been holed up at the Puckflaps compound, but we are getting by. Days like this make me yearn for the river and the days working on the docks.
Did you know that a dog CT scan costs 2,000 American dollars? How much do those machines cost? Can I buy one and charge people 1,500 American dollars to use it? I don’t know.
The missus and I, during the Great Snowstorm of 2026, just finished the TV show True Detective Season 1. It is great, and there is a character that goes by the given name Rustin Cohle, usually shortened to Rust. So this fella has some ideas that scratched an itch inside my brain. So what does a normal person do? They ask ChatGPT to create an entire religion based on his thoughts and beliefs.
The Church of the Flat Circle
Core Truth
Time is a flat circle. All suffering that has ever happened is happening now, and will happen again forever. Consciousness was a tragic evolutionary mistake, and the kindest thing humanity can do is stop lying to itself about meaning.
Existence has no inherent purpose. Honesty is the closest thing to virtue.
That’s just a bit of what the robot told me. There is about ten pages of this shit, and it even produced prayers, holy days, and scripture.
Speaking of True Detective, google dot com the Franklin Scandal and take a little dive into that. And also, non-related, the United States admitted it had weather weapons the other day. That’s all.
Watching this show makes me want to go back to Louisiana, not for the kid stuff or cults or murder or drugs, but to make sure Michelle Monaghan is doing alright. She is a heck of a woman. I’d like to go to a place named Rayne. It’s west of Lafayette, and I’d also like to see the old family home.
Let’s talk about my beloved Tigers basketball quickly. Admittedly, I am a stats guy, and when I look at the numbers, this team blows penis with the most expensive roster in a terrible conference. They moved up to 96 in KenPom with an impressive victory over historical powerhouse Florida Atlantic, ranked 105 in KenPom. My sweet young Tigers are, again, ranked 96 in KenPom, which would be their worst team since Tubby Smith’s 2018 squad.
I gotta go, man. Got a lot to do, but before I do, let’s talk about the highest and lowest highways in the United States.
Elevation
Highest: 11,158 feet (3,401 m), I-70 in the Eisenhower Tunnel at the Continental Divide in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
Lowest (land): −52 feet (−16 m), I-8 at the New River near Seeley, California.
Lowest (underwater): −103 feet (−31 m), I-95 in the Fort McHenry Tunnel under the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
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