Far out

Feel like this kind of thinking extends so far beyond just dogs right now, like all the people you see just straight up going around others to run red lights, etc. You know when they go through a green they're expecting everyone else to stop, but.. they're just gonna make that one not apply to them

The new climbing gym on Oxford & American St. being named "Movement Fishtown" bugs me way more than it should.

Went for a run yesterday afternoon and haven't stopped sneezing since. The plants are trying to kill me.

I'm already saving up old batteries

Yeah I have mkania@ and while Kania isn’t a super popular last name in the US I get a lot of misdirected emails in Polish for Mariusz and Maciej and whatnot

I remember seeing him at the show I went to, too, and being like WTF is this.

My now-wife and I saw Arcade Fire at a place in Columbus with maybe a hundred other people, not long after Funeral came out. I didn’t know what to expect and it was magical

This excellent essay is about astrophysics but I have definitely had very similar thoughts as they apply to AI usage for coding

Can't forget Andre Drummond shooting 36% from 3, right?

So many dudes where I saw them and was like, oh that’s where he is now, ok.

Saw them live on that tour and it was so so good. I need to dust off that album, haven’t thought of Trail of Dead for way too long.

Also on the ideal situation for basically any player, asked to come in and contribute in limited minutes for literally the best team in the league. Doesn't have to be THE GUY or carry the whole bench or anything, just put up a few 3s off the bench.

Super Mario Bros. run through DLSS 5 filter where on the left Mario is his usual pixellated self and on the right he's weirdly human looking.

I had a dumb thought so now you get to enjoy it too.

Man I miss that place, I used to go to the one on Girard for lunch sometimes when I worked from home and then I'd just want to nap the rest of the day, oops.

Put me down as a +1 for the Miller page too, it feels more readable to me.

Agreed on McCain, I think it’s more frustration with the feeling that they traded him to save Harris a few bucks

I am excited for the warm weather in Philly this weekend to get outside and off the treadmill but definitely not looking forward to the ego hit when I'm running about 90% of the speed I think I run.

It's amazing that Pollard can just crap out the world's catchiest melodies while 30 beers deep

Philly’s own! Love this song, I feel like this band was under appreciated

That’s the beauty of it, the dead cap hit is so bad if they cut him that they basically have to keep him around. I feel like there was something before the 2025 season where if they cut him the cap hit would be so big they couldn’t have fielded a team

As someone whose livelihood depends on people still going to Baseball Reference to look up stats like this, I'm OK with this!

The absolute best radio station

As I said in my work Slack (because of course we are discussing Casty there), he’s an intense weirdo and I wish he’d been a better player cause it was fun having him on the team.

I'm losing it at the number of people who seem to only remember him hitting 2 homers in back-to-back games (which was fun!) and have literally no other memory of his other 36 Phillies playoff games

I love those channels, then I start thinking about the logistics of the bathroom setups and change my mind

Was running through like, Cassel, Palmer, Leinart, Sanchez.. uh yeah that checks out

Man I was really sad to see that email yesterday and missed reading the newsletter this morning while I was drinking my coffee (I needed some takes on how the Sixers almost lost to the freaking KINGS, ugh).

Making me remember two different weddings I was at where the DJs played that song and everyone went apeshit and now I'm feeling sad & old too

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