This article is not new and I’m not exactly sure why I came across it this week. It’s a reminder that the world’s idea of success and failure, winning and losing, are often not the same as God’s. Jesus provided us with many examples of how things should look when done correctly. Read more here.

The internet looked a little different back in 2010 but that news story is classic.

Oops. Predicting what consumers will buy and staying ahead of trends can be a fickle business. Retailers have been trying to find ways to make other holidays, such as Easter and Halloween, as profitable as Christmas for years. Easter trees, really? But Walmart apparently missed in a big way with Juneteenth ice cream. It’s more than a matter of not selling enough units; public backlash led to the chain pulling this product off the market almost as soon as it appeared. One reporter found the ice cream in a store only to find it was “not available for sale” when she tried to check out. Matching sets of paper plates and napkins were also removed. Apparently the celebration of Juneteenth, going back to 1865 and made a national holiday by President Obama, will not be re-branded by the world’s largest retailer.

A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first TV special to feature the Peanuts comic strip characters in 1965. But the characters began appearing in animation a few years earlier, in 1959, in TV spots for Ford Motor Company. Charlie Brown doesn’t have any lines, and this car commercial doesn’t even show any cars, but this was the first spot in a new campaign and the Ford Falcon did show up later.

A friend IRL took this picture at a local Dollar General Store. The can on the left has a small dent. The can on the right denty more. True story.

LaFayette is about an hour north of where I live, just south of the Tennessee state line. I can’t help but wonder how many people live in urban, metropolitan areas that have never stopped for a cow in the road or watched local law enforcement try to wrangle livestock.

Larry Norman was a pioneer in creating the modern Christian/ Christian rock industry that later pushed him out. He came up in this week’s iMonk Radio post. His music is still for sale and there is a (somewhat neglect for the past few years) blog that I looked through. At some point he gave up the flute and learned to play guitar. I was fascinated by the $4.16/month flute rental pricing. Those run about 25 bucks now.

Design failure. Just keeping working on it until it says something that makes sense.

You can order the Chips without chips but it’s still gonna cost you. Might as well pay the upcharge to get the Chips with chips.