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1. The Peanuts Cartoon Character That Gave a Young Girl Permission to be Herself -- yeah, it surprised me too.

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2. The Troubling Age of Algorithmic Entertainment

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3. Why most of America is terrible at making biscuits (Personally I blame Pillsbury and those horrible pop-up biscuits of my youth...not that I can eat biscuits any longer, unless someone has created almond dough biscuits or oat dough biscuits, which they most likely have. I wouldn't put it past them to have created biscuits made with cricket flour, although I'd think that would be difficult. I always found biscuits very baking sodish in taste and a bit thick, personally. But that's probably because of Bisquit, Pillsbury, and various package brands.)

4. Adios Powerpoint, banned by Amazon and others ...because a new simple document template makes meetings shorter sweeter and smarter

Oh goodie. I hate powerpoint. I've always hated power-point. I call power-point the pointless dog and pony show.

5. Television..

Well, it had to happen eventually...Prodigal Son is starting to bore me and aggravate me. Yes, yes, show, I know Malcolm helped his father kill people and was most likely involved -- hello, the title pretty much screams it. Stop teasing, move on. And the scenery chewing lead...was great for a couple of episodes, but is wearing thin. He stands out a bit too much from every one else. Also, criminal procedures don't really work for me. I burned out on the trope/genre in the 1990s.

We'll see how long I stick with this. Will the cast be enough? Eh. I do like the cast a lot and relationship drama, the mystery of the week (no) and the flashbacks (getting old).

I may just be burned out on television at the moment. It happens.