Braden “Breadsticks” Sinclair is one of just 50 people who possess an Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass. He seems tremendously deserving, and his website LifetimePastaPass.com is chronicling it all. It’s even got a gallery of Olive Garden merchandise he’s collected over the years.

If the A.I. robots aren’t coming for your job, the cockroaches just might be. Scientists are now working on what they call “Paraborgs”, cybernetic cockroaches that could provide help in emergencies.

Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you.

Once again, do I have to?! First diving cockroaches, and now cockroaches delivering medicine? Send in a cute rescue dog or just leave me to die in peace, sans roaches.

The article also notes:

The researchers acknowledge that “for someone who is already trapped or injured, seeing a cyborg insect approaching could understandably be a little surprising or unsettling at first,” Vo-Doan says. Ways to make it clear these insects were part of rescue efforts might include flashing lights, recognizable emergency markings, “or perhaps a tiny speaker delivering a simple message such as, ‘help is on the way,’” Vo-Doan adds.

If the needle-armed cockroach that sidles up to me while I’m trapped under a collapsed building also has a speaker asserting that help is on the way, I really don’t think it’s going to put me at ease.

In Southern California, bears are turning up in human habitats more and more. It’s possible some of them are even gaining employment delivering for Amazon:

I wouldn’t want to come face to face with one of these bruins, but I did enjoy the many photos this article included.

In 2017, at the age of 82, Dale Sanders set a record as the oldest hiker to complete the 2,193 mile long Appalachian Trail. In 2021, however, Sanders’s friend M.J.Eberhart broke that record, at the age of 83. Sanders vowed to claim it back.

In 2026, at the incredible age of 91, Dale Sanders is once again the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail. Wow.

Long-time readers may recall my affinity for truck-eating bridges. In the years since that 2021 mention of Boston’s Storrow Drive, we’ve seen a reduction in the number of crashes, though the problem is far from solved. Boston.com has details on what’s changed, including improved signage.

This past Tuesday, Boston’s biggest moving day¹, I ran alongside Storrow Drive. While I didn’t manage to catch another Storrowing in the wild, I did see a near-miss. Right past the eastern entrance to the roadway, there was a large box truck pulled over, pre-bridges. I believe the driver was waiting for assistance in backing out. I wonder how he managed to catch himself after entering the road, but before running into a bridge. That’s a pretty lucky day, all things considered.

Also, an update! When I first wrote about Storrowings, I said:

While Boston lacks its own site devoted entirely to this phenomenon, local news blog Universal Hub does track the incidents, which we refer to as “Storrowings”.

As of 2026, that’s no longer the case, thanks to the new StorrowRankings.com. The site allows all and sundry to weigh in on the quality of Storrowings. What a time to be alive.

Footnotes:

1. Data indicates that 107% of leases in Boston turn over on September 1st. ↩︎