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| [Lobster Mobster] A 66-year-old man was arrested on “a litany of lobster violations,” including dropping a bag filled with lobsters in the mangroves to dump the evidence. On Friday morning, Lower Keys Marine Deputy Louis Guiardinu was on patrol near Sunshine Key when he spotted Thomas Michael Waidelich diving for lobster from a kayak. Guiardinu also saw him spearing a lobster. “Waidelich refused to obey commands to come to the shoreline by paddling away.” He dumped a bag of lobsters in the mangroves before he was taken into custody whereupon he admitted to dumping his catch, adding that he knew he was over-the-limit. Link |
 [The Personal Computer Will Change] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in June while unveiling a new chip platform for an AI-powered Windows PC. That sentiment was echoed yesterday on Intel’s earnings call, with Intel CFO David Zinsner saying the PC “is going to go through a renaissance despite this [slowdown].” Today, PC sales are deteriorating quickly. Intel expects worldwide PC shipments to fall about 12% this year, followed by another roughly 10% decline in 2027. The company, which supplies processors to PC makers like Dell and HP, said Thursday that the pace of that PC “correction” has accelerated over the last two months, and predicted that the market over the next few quarters will be “challenging.” |
| [Air Crash] 9 dead after Learjet plunges nose first and bursts into flames in Palm Beach. Video |
 [Book Club] The Last Train to Paradise. Our next meeting is November 21st. The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. Full Menu > Ongoing Events > Book Club |
| [Gotta go, gotta go!] Botox for overactive bladder: how a simple procedure can provide lasting relief. Link |
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| [Fish Have Feelings] The next time you go for a swim, try this: Close your eyes, paddle in place, and imagine using the feeling of the water on your skin to map the shape of everything nearby—from the contours of the pool to the location of a hapless bug struggling on the surface. That’s kind of what it’s like to be a fish with a marvelous sensory apparatus known as the lateral line system. Link |
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| [All This flooding] Just last evening when driving home through the water, ahead of me on the flooded lane were a Great White heron, a cattle egret, some ibis and two sand pipers and then a beautiful deer slogged across the lane. It all was so beautiful, the lighting was perfect, if one doesn’t think about the island sinking. |
 [Mouse Talk] Adjusting the Size of the Pointer Arrow in Windows 11Press Windows + I to open Settings. Click Accessibility in the left sidebar. Select Mouse pointer and touch on the right. Locate the Size slider under Mouse pointer. Drag the slider left or right to decrease or increase the pointer size until it suits your preference. (Optional) Choose a Mouse pointer style — White, Black, Inverted, or Custom — for better visibility. If using Custom, pick a color from Recommended colors or click Choose another color to set a custom one. Close Settings — changes are applied immediately |
 Every vote counts in this election. Please make the time to vote. Our democracy and our nation’s soul are at stake. Where To Vote |
| [“Walmart vs Amazon”] I think you have it backwards. I stopped shopping at Amazon a couple of years ago. Walmart ships much more quickly and their returns are a breeze. Just go to the item, print the label and drop it at FedEx. My Visa is usually credited before I get home. (Editor: The poster complained that Walmart Returns wanted them to bring it to the store in Homestead from the Keys. That was his complaint.) |
 [Doomsday] In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end on November 13, 2026. And yes, doomsday falls on Friday the 13th. Link |
| [?] Thank you for that link! As with some others posted, I pledge a gazillion dollars to the cause. I get first class postage paid from them and I loaded with dirt and send it back to them. Still get the s**t. Just doin’ my part. |
 Obama’s full remarks on the White House’s tchotchkes to get the joke. He said: “He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory; it’s just gold everywhere.” |
| At my age, I can rant!’ Bernie Taupin on Elton John, hellraising vampires and competing in full-blown rodeos. Link |
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| [Life with Down Syndrome] He’s thirty-five years old. Loves movies. Works two jobs. Wants to meet the right person. But because he has Down syndrome, someone told him he’s different. Link |
 Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium processor have defeated Kasparov in 1996? Link |
| [Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack] Charles Tandy was the second of three children born to Carmen (née McLain) and David Lewis Tandy in Brownsville, Texas, on May 15, 1918. Charles’ youngest brother, Bill, went on to run his own chain of leather craft stores in the early 1950s before merging with Tandy CorAt the age of 10, Charles and a classmate started selling scraps of leather from his father’s store to classmates for spare change, teaching them how to make belts out of them. With another classmate whose father owned a boot company, they started making heavier belts from scraps of boot leather that they sold to department stores. Link |
 [Last Train to Paradise] In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller, dreamed of a railway connecting the island of Key West to the Florida mainland, crossing a staggering 153 miles of open ocean—an engineering challenge beyond even that of the Panama Canal. Many considered the project impossible, but build it they did. The railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World,” until its total destruction in 1935’s deadly storm of the century. In Last Train to Paradise, Standiford celebrates this crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition, bringing to life a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath. Link |
| [In Praise of Apple’s Bear App] Over the years, one thing we hear again and again is that Bear just feels good to use. So for this special occasion, we want to share the principles behind every design decision we make. Along the way you’ll find some tiny details we’ve hidden all over the app (you may be using a few right now without knowing it), a peek at an idea that never shipped, and some brand new Bear swag. Grab a slice of cake and come on in! Link |
 [Why Don’t We Live in an Art Nouveau World] How many Sagrada Famílias is too many? A hundred years after the death of its architect and 144 years after the start of construction, the Sagrada Família’s main spire was completed this February, making it the tallest church in the world. Link |
| [Brain Injury] Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. The study looked at NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023. Not everyone with signs of the disease in the brain develops symptoms. Link |
 Microsoft’s Canada time zone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they’re in Bogota. Canadian regions stop turning back the clocks, Microsoft wishes it could. Link |
| [Learn Japanese] Practice Japanese from YouTube videos. Paste a Japanese YouTube video and JIVX turns its lines into sentences you type or say, each one graded. Or practice with a video someone has already added. Link |
 Fires in the U.S. are getting faster, larger, and more dangerous, but people continue to develop and move into fire-prone regions. New CU Boulder research shows that if we don’t act on climate change, which fuels fires, or manage vegetation and transform how we build and adapt for fire, the risk to structures in the U.S. will almost triple by mid-century. Link |
| [Earliest Creole] University of Cambridge linguist has uncovered a treasure trove containing the earliest known recordings of Creole language and analyzed them for the first time in a study published in Language Documentation & Description. The recordings were taken by famed Black linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner, who studied Gullah languages spoken by Black Americans living in South Carolina and traveled to Sierra Leone in search of the dialect’s African influences. Link |
 [Boy Names That Became Girl Names] (and vice versa) More names have shifted from boys to girls than the other way around. But in both directions, changes in girls’ naming trends drove most of the movement. Picture a baby named Leslie, Kelly, or Ashley, and you’ll probably picture a girl. But all three names were once given mostly to boys. Looking at US baby names from 1936 to 2025, we found that 42 shifted from mostly boys to mostly girls, while just 12 went the other way. Link |
| [Favorite Sites] If you love a website, back it up. This story starts with a little tragedy. See, I’ve got these old webpages I love to go back and look on every now and then. There’s websites that have been online unchanged for years and years, or decades, and there’s something a little cozy about checking in on them every now and then to see an old friend is still doing okay. Sometimes, of course, tragedy strikes. Link |
 [I’m Late] Editor: I’m late and have no particular excuse, but a group of them. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 11/3/26 at 12:01 am. |
 [REDUCED] Pellet Gun Gamo Swarm Maxxim 10X GEN 2 Multi-Shot Air Rifle. Two 10-round .177 clips. 3 x 9 variable scope. Box of pellets. $200 new. Now $75. b33043@outlook.com Video |
 [For Sale] Folding scaffold 30L x 12w x 20h. 4 scaffolds (not sold separately) New $200, Big Pine Key pick-up half-price: $100. Excellent condition.b33043@outlook.com Link |
| Snapshots taken from Big Pine Key looking North between Annette Key and Mayo Key every Friday evening since 2023. You may hover to view a photo, see the date of the photo, or use the left or right arrows on the images. |
