Taking a stroll around my neighborhood-- the first day in a week, it seems, that it's been possible to do so comfortably. ( StatsCollapse )

And, at that, sitting in the cool air-conditioned Mood Cafe sipping a coconut lassi feels like Heaven.

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This Baker Makes Internet Trolls Eat Their Words -- Literally
June 12, 2017 11:12 AM ET
Noor Wazwaz

Kat Thek's New York City bakery, Troll Cakes, sends Internet trolls baked goods with their words written on them.

The social media world is heavily populated by trolls — you know, those people who write nasty, mean comments online. Sometimes it can be tempting to respond back, but what if there's a better alternative? Like sending them a cake.... with their words written on it.

New York City baker Kat Thek does just that. She's the founder of Troll Cakes, a bakery and detective agency.

The process is simple. First, customers go to the Troll Cakes site to submit the comment and address of the troll in question. Thek will then bake a cake, write the comment on it using frosting or fondant letters, wrap it up in festive confetti, and send it to the perpetrator.

"When you open it up, [the box] looks like 100 percent good news," Thek laughs. "And then you see a screen grab of your comment, and it says, 'Congratulations! Your Internet comment has been made into a Troll Cake.' "

Don't know the address of your troll? That's where the "detective agency" part of Thek's business comes into play. She offers to do the investigating for you. She will search for the troll's address and send it to his or her home or workplace.

Customers can also send cake orders to the White House. After all, President Trump is tweeter-in-chief. Thek calls it the "Tiny Hands Special" and promises on her site that these cakes are "bigly satisfying."

Thek has designed a cake that included Trump's comment that he draws higher television ratings than did the September 11 attacks.

"That went on a cake," Thek said.

The president's infamous "I don't stand by anything" quote was also iced on a cake, as well as his tweet, "I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke."

Thek's customers can also send cake orders to the White House.

Thek jokes that if the White House is all set for cakes, she doesn't mind sending some to Mar-a-Lago or "wherever else Trump is hanging out."

The self-taught baker was inspired to start this business after she saw a rude comment on Dolly Parton's Facebook that read, "Your momma be so disappointed in you."

"It was infuriating, but also hilarious, because who would actively try to hurt her feelings? It was so ridiculous," Thek said.

And so she put those words on a cake and sent it to that Facebook user.

The Internet is a "bottomless pit of mean things," Thek says, but her goal isn't to "cure the world of pettiness." Thek wants to poke fun and have people imagine what their comments would look like on a cake.

So for those trolls out there, be careful what you write, because you never know — you just may end up eating your own words.

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85°F (29.4°C) inside. About to take cool shower #5 of the day.

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In my apartment about 5:30 this afternoon
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In Scott, the court held that sacks of sugar do not fall out of warehouses and crush passers-by without somebody having been negligent along the way.

Wikipedia

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According to AccuWeather, the temperature here right now is 86°F (30°C for you out there in the civilized world), RealFeel 91°(33). The forecast for today is record high temperatures: high of 96°(36), low 73°(23), no RealFeel prediction.

Meanwhile, my wall thermometer here in my apartment already says 91° (33). I think maybe I better go out to a library for much of the day.

ETA: See my next post but one, Res ipsa loquitur.


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Ever since high school I have thought this poem to be more pompous than meaningful, more worthy of a sniff than of respect. (The Latin title means "Undefeated".)


Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


This, which I found on Pinterest, has changed my mind completely.


( Long tall 'comic'. Click; you won't regret it.Collapse )

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From the mailing list of the American Dialect Society, posted a few minutes ago by Joel Berson

"Who is it in the press that calls on me?"

Caesar, dressed and haired like D----- T---- in the Public Theater's Central Park production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".

Obviously this is Orange Julius Caesar.

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Meditated 16½ minutes.

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On Þornsday, 1994-06-09, CEN/TC304 resolved that in a default multilingual European sort, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter after Z. Subsequently, ISO/TC37/SC2/WG3 resolved that in its work on alphabetical ordering, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter after Z. Most recently, JTC1/SC22/WG20 resolved that in its work of producing a default multilingual sort for ISO/IEC 10646, ÞORN shall be sorted as a separate letter after Z.

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