Just waiting for the pigoons.

This is a mistake a peewee ref would have to explain to his supervisor.

The video is posted at the other place, I’m afraid, so I’ll just say that the Guardians could have paid Kyle Tucker $70 million and not had a league-median payroll.

They’re all so very lying.

Libraries need to critically engage with language we use when assessing TAs/R&Ps.

Out now: doi.org/10.5860/crln...
with my fantastic co-authors @leighbutler.bsky.social, Jaclyn McLean, Jason Friedman, Erin Fields, and Monica Ward

#FinalFantasy7

I actually owned that version of 1984.

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

Farewell to the mass market paperback (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Thanks!

And I'd still say it requires domain knowledge to understand it. I have familiarity with the API and underlying data.

But it was basically like having a personalized tutorial, so I could build the project I wanted to while learning how the software worked. So, don't believe the hype, but it *is* a very useful tool.

thorough explanations and detailed rationales. When I couldn't find something in the instructions, it would rewrite them to be more basic/granular. If I got stuck, I could just upload a screenshot: sometimes, it would guide me, sometimes it would be a whoops, I need to provide different instructions

So, I tend to be an AI skeptic, but I was able to create a very basic dashboard in Power BI making API calls, despite never having used Power BI before. And it wasn't so much the end product that impressed me, but rather the step by step guidance that @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social provided...

I'm *shocked* you're not an Xbox guy. 😉

Welp, it finally happened. Amazon Canada increased the price of their Game Pass Ultimate 3 month codes to the new pricing. I'll definitely be downgrading before my current term ends, but I've got 2 years for that. 🙂

Encyclopedia of Britania 1771 to 1860 with new and much improved OCR transcription. This is very much a work in progress, and I'm working on improving the splitting of the text into articles. olmOCR is an energy-efficient model that significantly improves OCR. jburnford.github.io/early_encycl...

Flipping the Line: If Canada has no values, what did I adopt when I moved here? An American-born Canadian takes issue with the latest episode of The Line Podcast.

A podcast made me angry, so I wrote about it. Thank you to
@thelineca.bsky.social and @mattgurney.bsky.social for publishing it.

Flipping the Line: If Canada has no values, what did I adopt when I moved here? www.readtheline.ca/p/flipping-t...

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Until owners open their books, the default assumption should be that they're making money hand over fist and they don't want the players to know it. And opening the books should mean cash flow statements for all affiliated entities, not just showing paper losses for the team.

Literally all of my friends at GW put up similar messages on AOL Instant Messenger.

That was my initial reaction as well.

The Blue Jays’ 23 runs are the most by a team in the first two games of a single postseason

That's a good suggestion as well.

So happy I went to a football game instead.

Did Cheers not air in Britain?

I have never enjoyed an MLB team more than this year’s Toronto Blue Jays team. At a time where domestic and world news hammers you down daily, they have provided me and my family with endless optimism and spirit. It doesn’t matter in the big picture but then again, it’s also everything.

A pattern has emerged in
@expedition33.bsky.social: "I should really go explore other areas... just *one* more battle in the Endless Tower." Rinse and repeat. :)

What are you playing?

Mario Kart World is extremely impressive so far. It looks gorgeous. The gameplay is very smooth. The courses are the most detailed in the series. It's a lot of fun and I've barely scratched the surface.

I feel like Nintendo has really hit it out of the park.