My theory about the Ocarina of Time remake is gonna be that you’re gonna get The Downfall Timeline Is Real So Shut Up
TK Focht (John Focht)
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Baseball, puzzles, trivia, progress | LA #Dodgers software lead | 4x Jeopardy champ, 3x World Series champ | https://j-ometry.com for #Jeopardy metrics | Los Angeles | he/him 🏳️🌈
Today I put in a long day at the baseball stats factory, writing an article that included the initialism "BLTR". Cracked open my mailbox, saw the paper of record had come, and was scandalized to find the following
Accidentally typing “git innit” like I’m discussing my versioning tool selection with my terminal window
In fairness when I was graduating from HS and a recruiter asked me if I had a better plan than the military I said I was attending MIT and he said “yeah that’s a better plan” and that was that
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8mo agoHegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
Realizing that Heated Rivalry has wrought upon my brain the Game of Thrones problem: The name of an individual volume is now more well known than the book series title and my brain will be forever rebelling against using the individual title for the series even if it makes communication clearer.
Am I being crazy or does this have to be a reference to this being based on the book GAME CHANGER by putting in Dropout’s GAME CHANGER motif??? #HeatedRivalry
Trying to annoy my brother, who is insisting that the NFL on Fox theme is a Thanksgiving song, by singing Sleigh Ride’s “giddyup giddyup giddyup let’s go” bridge over the NFL main hook.
found this in a folder if that's useful to any of you
THE DODGERS STARTING PITCHER TONIGHT THREW 6 SCORELESS INNINGS AND STRUCK OUT 10 BATTERS AND DID THIS
baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
If you’re here because you saw the repeat on TV today, here is the update on me: my hands are quite good now (feet are not there but better too), and the problem now is heat not cold, but overall recovery is very good. Just had my one year post treatment follow up and my scans and blood are clean.
This video from Senator Padilla's staff, shared to Twitter by Fox LA's Elex Michaelson, shows Padilla forced to the ground by men wearing FBI uniforms who then handcuff him behind his back. This is after he is forcibly removed from the Noem press conference for asking a question.
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
I had my 6mo follow up with my oncologist this week and he was amazed that I could play Jeopardy! at all let alone feel as good playing as in 2020-22. You can see how good that was today!
The mystery of why California HSR costs so much and is taking so long is not really a mystery 1) The easiest parts to build aren't at the largest population centers at the ends 2) It needs a lot of land which is expensive 3) It crosses mountains and seismic areas 4) It's never been funded enough
Got so in my head on recruitment tasks today that I forgot I had other tech documentation open, saw this in a tab and started wondering if I had blacked out and put in a request for "legendary" developers.
My team at the Dodgers is hiring! We have positions in data engineering and research engineering. www.linkedin.com/posts/los-an...
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How I thought about my ability to return to Jeopardy for the Invitational Tournament open.substack.com/pub/jometry/...
The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.
Some positive personal recoveries: I made it from LA to Boston and back without physical difficulties. The cold in Boston didn't provoke neural pain. I've put on shirts with buttons the last three days and had no trouble with my fingers beyond how annoying cuff buttons are generally.
J: I’m going to go do the dishes. Or I could do them tomorrow. Nah, I’ll do them now. Me: Yesterday you said you’d call Sears. J: YAAAAAAAAAAA
Blue skies directly overhead now, but brown and orange to the west and southwest. The light has been like a permanent sunset all day. Light ash falling.