notube november

Now is the winter of our discontent…

Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1 — William Shakespeare

I’m not the one who coined the term “NoTube November.” Credit for that appears to come from another blogger, Marc Beebe (no relation). You can read what he had to say about it on his blog here: https://marcbeebe.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/notube-november/.

I agree with him on every point in his blog post. There’s nothing more for me to add. Except to say I agree with Marc 100% and as a consequence I’ve signed out of YouTube and will never sign back in, even after November ends.

sign of the times

I’m sure this sign has been up on this light pole for some time now, and as I looked around I saw what appeared to be others just like it scattered around. The problem is the sign is way up high and very few are placed elsewhere in the parking lot. If Publix wanted to make sure the message really got out to patrons coming into the store, then it should be more at eye level, and it should be on every pole. But since the signs are provided by a realty company, I’m sure the realty company had a hard limit on how much they wanted to spend, at least in this parking lot.

The fact that you have to put signs up like this is another sad comment on the current state of humanity. What makes it worse is that the people who would read such a sign and understand it would have already followed its basic premise. Those who are dumb enough to leave children or pets unattended in vehicle would neither care nor could then even understand it if they could read.

And I’m not shilling for the realty company.