GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until Aug. 23—just a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. Time for Lost Woods! It's Friday, and every week in this spot—CoffeeBreak, Daybreak, whatever—Lebanon author and illustrator DB Johnson (Henry Hikes to Fitchburg and other classics) chronicles the doings in Lost Woods. Scroll right to move on to the next panel or left to catch up on previous weeks. If you've missed a week (or more), check out the archive and synopsis behind the three little parallel lines at the top right.And it's also time for the News Quiz. Each Friday, Hanover's Kevin McCurdy and Bill Miles test your knowledge of what's gone on around the region that week—and ask your opinion on a burning question or two. "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question. It’s to post the wrong answer." That's Cunningham's Law, named for the programmer who noted that people like to fight online more than they like to help. It's one of eight useful "laws" compiled by former Motley Fool and WSJ columnist Morgan Housel. Among others, there's Parkinson's Law of Triviality — the amount of attention a problem gets is the inverse of its importance — and Chekhov's famous rifle: Remove everything from writing that doesn't need to be there. You know you'd do this, too, if you could. Dogs find their way to get down stairs, whatever it takes...
Let's end the week with one of the standouts of the early pandemic: Curt Smith, of Tears for Fears, and his daughter Diva doing "Mad World." No surprise this thing went viral about two seconds after they uploaded it.See you Monday.
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