From ea1e947f14ac1a65e516908e337db6688d1cc213 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Russell Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 05:46:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: tiny-and-unwise log - silly ideas with a kernel of wisdom --- docs/tiny-and-unwise.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/tiny-and-unwise.md diff --git a/docs/tiny-and-unwise.md b/docs/tiny-and-unwise.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b24c53d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/tiny-and-unwise.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Tiny and unwise + +A log of silly ideas with a kernel of wisdom. +The older you get, the less people believe you have created something new. +They assume you remembered it from somewhere and forgot where it came from. +This file is the receipts. + +Format: dated entry, the idea, the kernel. + +## 2026-05-10 + +**Tequila Mockingbird.** +Independently created. +A bar name pun on Harper Lee. +Kernel: the canon eats every joke eventually, and the only proof you got there first is to have written it down on the day. + +**Careless Whisper is a fart.** +The saxophone riff as flatulence. +Kernel: shame and exposure are baked into the lyric ("guilty feet have got no rhythm"), so the fart reading is structurally consistent. The song is, on a charitable read, *about* a fart.