Last Notes
Illinois makes it to the Final Four! At least one of my teams is halfway decent.
Four of the Elite Eight teams are from the Big Ten. Too bad Nebraska (my native land) couldn't get there, but glad Illinois (my alma mater) made it.
Right place, right time. The anti-Elon sentiment was at a height, and they wanted a not-Twitter that felt like Twitter. Nobody cared about the original mission of the site, and pretty soon not even the devs seemed to care anymore.
It is now longer and more elaborate than it needs to be; clearly written by a group of French basement Vatican dwellers who never had the hard task of actually doing a Vigil.
Best name in baseball? Probably.
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Just now, I was able to: connect said wallet to... basically everything, desktop or otherwise, and successfully send zaps.
I hate monkeying with this stuff. If I can do it, you can too.
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Just took a gander at the revised OCIA Rite for the Easter Vigil.
May God have mercy on liturgists.
My collection is growing. Windy City Bulls giveaway night, parishioner just brought it by.
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I object to the resurgence of the mustache.
Grateful for the return of baseball. The beautiful thinkin' man's game.
Enjoy. Best purchase I've made in a long while.
I love my MacBook Neo. It's probably the best computer purchase I've made in the last decade. Take it wherever, bang it around, get things done.
The one thing I use AI for: formatting my LaTeX stuff. Not because I have to, but because I am lazy.
Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia" is worth your attention, even if it is a bit predictable.
50 years ago today. Only one thing to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
Getting in shape becomes a kind of addiction after a while. A healthy one, but an addiction nonetheless.
The hardest part about intermittent fasting isn't the hunger: you get past that in about a month. The hardest part is the dehydration: with my 40/8, I need to drink about a gallon of water a day.
I fail at this. Daily.
Glad the iPhone Air is lagging behind expectations. Sends a clear message: people don't care about the thickness of a phone, especially against battery life.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/02/iphone-17-strong-demand-morgan-stanley/
There is a belgian brewery near me. Some of the best beer in existence. However i have less tolerance to beer these days.
Just drank some Belgian beers in accord with my heritage. Convocation is the best.
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Really: turn off all the lights, and play Bob Dylan's "Rough and Rowdy Ways." Play it all the way through, like albums are meant to be played.
"I'll see you, baby, on Judgment Day."
They were never the solution. There's a reason Jack deleted.
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Prayers for Charlie Kirk. I tend to avoid politics as much as possible, but one thing that really concerns me here, so allow me to comment:
BOOMERS. GET A GRIP.
Do you part to fight brain rot: write in long-form. 🫡
https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/
Or, we could all post to Nostr and just be normal.
https://archive.ph/7X5Qy
Well, bring obnoxious orange is my favorite color, Apple, so at least you've done one thing right with the "new" iPhone 17 Pro Max.
I suspect I just have to face the facts: I can't watch pro football anymore. Not because my teams are trash: I have too many I follow to be disappointed.
It's the pace of play. The grind. The standing around. 45 minutes longer than the average baseball game, with 11 minutes less action. I'd rather watch test cricket, which is a different kind of schlog altogether.
Something needs to happen. Put Rob Manfred in charge: we'd all complain for a season, but then we'd dig the faster play.
I think the Bears are broken too..
I've said it before, and Iwill say it again: the NFL is broken. Shorten the games.
Not quite sold on this, but at least I know the encryption model will be open source and audited.
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Case in point: HVAC. HVAC systems can be relatively simple, even the commercial units like the one I have in my church, and there are a ton of people qualified to work on HVAC systems.
Problem: They're putting computer controller units on them now. Many advantages to this, but it also makes repairs terrible. A power surge knocked out the controller unit, and did $10K worth of damage; the HVAC guys (the repairmen who would normally handle all work on a normal mechanical unit) cannot fix it. It must farmed out to a computer company who specializes in installing and maintaining such things, and I've been waiting for this one company for almost three weeks to complete the job.
The reality is that things still break as they always did, but the consequences of breakage are higher now, and we only have electronic integration to blame.
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Sort of. I know plenty of people who had the same washer and dryer, kept alive by the 'ole repair man, for three decades; then they buy a new one, with all the bells and whistles, and the first time it breaks down, they're told it's cheaper to replace than repair. This is the most common story I hear from people in their 80's, but is true even of the appliances I grew up with as a kid.
I think the most common problem with consumer appliances and automobiles is that they're more complicated now, involving more electronics. This means more can go wrong, and there will be no one near you who can fix it. Hence why I'm firmly against installing anything in my plant with a computer, when a simple mechanical item will work work just fine. I have to budget for disasters and repairs.
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Good Friday morning to all. Pray it's a productive one!
I've been pretty satisfied with #nostter. Pretty barebones, but works well, at least for me.
Certainly: most web apps are terrible, as are their desktop versions. Inconsistent. Poor load times, if anything loads at all. Primal is the best example. If Nostr is to succeed, solid web apps are an absolute must. Thankfully, Damus Notedeck gives me reason for hope.
Still laughing at this, btw. I am, in fact, 45.
I'll say it until I'm blue: stable desktop/web versions are far more important right now than your cell phone app.
Yep. Always carry one in my pocket.
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Minnesota.
Bob Dylan.
Prince.
In that order.
When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, at seven years old my answer was definitive: Second Baseman for the Chicago Cubs.
That's because Ryne Sandberg was the second baseman in those days. Always moving, always making the play, always tuned into the moment so he could position himself properly. And he did it all with a layer of humility that has always been a staple of the game.
RIP Ryno, and thanks for helping along my love of the game.
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Yep. Windows is in fact the ultimate malware now.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/windows_11_is_a_minefield/
Happy Gilmore 2 is a success in a rare way. Most soft reboots/revisits/sequels after a long period of time end up being shadows, but this one felt right in league with the original. Highly recommended.
The Uniball Zento Signature, Flow, and Basic all in .38. The difference is in pen materials, with the Basic feeling like your typical light disposable, the Flow being slightly heavier and more tighter in construction, and the Signature featuring magnetic cap and post. Otherwise, the cartridges are the same.
The ink itself is glorious, and I highly recommend all pen carriers check it out. Pass on the Signature until you’ve experienced the ink and you can actually find it at a decent ($30) price.
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Midwesterners like to complain about a lack of rain. I like to remind Midwesterners that it's already as humid as it gets outside. If you want a green lawn, check out the parish's with the sprinkler system.
The cost of AI is going insane, and for the funniest reasons.
The VC cash-in is now upon us, and who better to target than the VC startups for whom $20k a year is chump change? Meanwhile, the common person who might view it (rightly) as a shortcut search engine is priced straight out.
I appreciate this article. It’s like acknowledging what you believed in is really a scam, even if he doesn’t have the courage to say it.
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For us sportsballers, July 1st is a High Feast:
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
