VIEW from the BLEACHERS

My personal search for signs of intelligent life in the universe and in my neighborhood

A humor blog

by Tim Jones, BA, JD, MBA, ESQ, FAQ, INC, LOL, WTF, UBU, IDK, ETC

My  Very First Pickleball Tournament

My Very First Pickleball Tournament

Recently, I entered my very first pickleball tournament. Before then, the last time I participated in a formal athletic tournament, Richard Nixon was our nation’s Commander-in-Chief. The entry fee was only $20 – an extremely reasonable price for the opportunity to spend 3 & ½ hours being repeatedly reminded how much I suck at pickleball.

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The Next Killer App: Google Kindness Translator

The Next Killer App: Google Kindness Translator

By now you have probably heard of one of the great game changer apps: Google Translate. I’ve recently come up with a new upgrade. I call it the Google Kindness Translator. It’s still in beta. It takes one person’s abusive or argumentative language and, with the press of a button, converts it into a kinder, more sensitive alternative translation. It works on just above everybody – except with QAnon wingnuts. Nothing they say can be cleaned up, I’m afraid. Like I said, it’s still in beta.

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YOU'RE GROUNDED FOR LIFE

You're Grounded For Life book

Read this hysterically funny book about Tim Jones’s many parenting failures — Sure to make you feel like Parent of the Year by comparison.

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