Cleaning out the Inbox

  Time for another inbox cleaning as we lead off with Alison Kosik of CNN explaining how companies are using "Shrinkflation" to keep the offers high.

The term is used when a company subtly changes the amount of product in a container without announcing the decrease to the public.

Of course, containers have to list the amount of product inside but they don't have to say when their particular unit has decreased in amount.

Even the same decrease can make a difference in profit margin for the manufacturer, so this happens far more often than one would think.

Jeff Heimberger sends this note of an orange lobster found on its way to a Red Lobster restaurant.

We often seem to make note of these rare lobsters when they are caught in the wild and the orange color looks very similar to how the lobster looks after it has been cooked.

I'm not sure how orange ranks on the list of color scarcity but "Cheddar" will be living its life in the Myrtle Beach SC aquarium.

Newsweek writes of a recent finding of a fully intact Burger King behind a wall of a mall store in Concord, Delaware.

The "Time Capsule" Burger King looks to me to be an early nineties franchise and the mall hopes to be leasing the space soon.

The article has lots of pictures of the abandoned BK and while the store is intact, it has been used by a maintenance crew that runs hoses through the store to water plants inside the operating mall.

The Athletic writes of comedian Richard Lewis and his massive Ohio State football fandom.

Lewis, who starred in his own sitcom "Anything but Love" with Jamie Lee Curtis for four seasons from 1989-92, is currently appearing with friend Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on HBO for its upcoming twelfth season and is an OSU graduate from the class of 1969.

Weather.com tells of recent damage to the James Webb Space telescope from micrometeorites.

NASA had known from the start of the project that micrometeorite damage was unavoidable but hoped it would be minimal and not happen so quickly.

The damage to one mirror on the lower right side of the telescope cannot be corrected but hasn't been an insurmountable problem thus far for the Webb, which has the ability to see 'back into time' with pictures of stars and systems never before seen in human history.