Huh, and now the Cubbies are down 14-0 to St. Louis. How about that.

I'd like to say I enjoyed the Padres' 6-run lead on LA while it lasted, but I did not enjoy it, and now they're losing, so it's time to go pick a fight with some goblins in Faerun

One of my favorite things to do as a young AYSO fullback was to steal off-sides calls from the shitty primadonna forwards and strikers who invariably broke for any ball that happened to pass me. (there weren't many; I once saved a goal with my face)

Speaking of "stuff I unearthed in Mom's Garage" there's also this: a cartoony 12"x12" Crayola-marker freehand-sketch of the world, by me, from (I think) 1990 or 1991, when I was in a middle school art class taught by Dale Carter. I would have been about 14 years old.

Look I'm still trying to get over the Padres' loss to the Cubs by a score of 23-3 and now I gotta catch up on soccer too?

First up is a set of four maps I made for Alloy Marketing and their Georgia SRTA client, of Atlanta-area interstates I-85 and I-75, depicting those tollways, their "Peach Pass" express lanes/access points, and their shifting traffic patterns at different times of day. keirdubois.com/portfolio/pe...

Breaking: two of three Keirtography projects in house have now been dragged across the finish line. More soon; stay tuned

not big on the patron saint here but otherwise it checks out

I spent YEARS calling Phish "the Wiggles for Grown Ups" and then someone went out and just did it for real

I am perhaps the only Padre fan who doesn't enjoy the whole Blink-182 connection; I don't like that band or their music. But I'm one fan. And I can't math the way Dylan here maths math, so I won't begrudge him a perfect pun for a great take on yesterday's missed ABS opportunity by the Padres.

To follow this one up: Santa Paula did indeed win the follow up to become District 63 champs, but so far have lost one game in sectionals (vs Santa Maria I believe) afterward. In case anyone was wondering, of course.

"We do all levels" cases in point on a recent NorCal trip: Santa Cruz Little League All-Stars vs. Aptos Little League All-Stars (in SC) and Giants hosting the Braves all in the same weekend.

A new PJ Harvey song? About space?!? I am sold. youtu.be/XzCjzFsGl_c?...

Because it shall not be said that I only gripe about bad Padre baseball things, it was very nice to see a Machado-powered extra-inning walkoff against Atlanta at home. The Tatis bomb to tie it was sweet too. Very rock-em-sock-em vibes tonight.

A history teacher is saying this, folks, so it's True.

In which I find yet another thread this week to bomb with "there are dozens of us!"

I won't lie—having a guy named Keir be the British PM has been a real monkey's paw moment for the younger me who just wished everyone would pronounce and/or spell his name correctly

Post a comic cover you love

a huge part of people's bad personalities on the internet could be fixed if they learned "that's not for me" as a polite alternative to various expressions of derision. your feelings about things you don't want to be part of are not that important

you Big Accounts gotta stop reposting stuff from like two years ago; some of us are too oblivious to check dates on posts before we do our dumb reply-guy shit

Meanwhile spending time on Tumblr makes me feel about 117 years old, in both the best and worst ways

Donatello the ninja turtle trades bo staff for bat and gets really into swing path and launch angle analytics to become the best hitting coach on earth. He vows to give up pizza in middle age but since he's a turtle he understands that won't happen for ~50 years.

My mayor Sánchez-Palacios My transit is by bike I live in a baseball market With two teams I don't like

Second Conejo Oaks game of the season for us at Ventura College across town (where they will play all their home games this year). They’ve run up the score 12-0 on the SD Bombers, in a game of baby blue on baby blue violence.

Someone is wrong on the internet and that’s fine, actually; it won’t hurt me and I’ve got better things to do than be mad about it

When I finally barf out my first-person fantasy novel starring my beloved bard it’s now gonna be chock full of stuff that’ll make people cool down with, like, “Marabou Stork Nightmares” afterward

A good and easy ten-plus-mile bike ride on a sunny day avoiding the Padre game to get home just in time for Tatis Jr walking it off with HR number 2 of the year

“Morality is Antithetical to Creativity” aka “So-Called ‘AI’ Tools are Fine, Actually” aka “Follow Your Muse” or something trying (and likely failing) to get my fellow creatives to lighten the hell up about just one tool in the box

Three feet from doing it a fourth time. Woulda been a walkoff, alas

Relative recency bias but it’s this one. The triple play to enter the 2024 playoffs might be my favorite 2020s Padres moment, regardless of what happened next. I can’t remember if Molly won’t appreciate this or not but that doesn’t make it false.

Fermin has now hit three homers in three straight days. I don’t think a Padre catcher has done this in a long time. Tatis did it last year but of course he’s not a catcher.

Fermin has now hit two bombs in two days after going something like 0 for 35, which is great! Maldonado and Nola would also run into a few every once and a while too, but Padre catchers have never been consistent hitters this decade so ideally Freddy will keep going.

Others confirm this in the thread but my own special route to LAX is to fly in and out of Burbank or SBA. Stolen valor, though, as I've been a resident of several nearby counties (currently Ventura) and cannot claim to be an Angeleno, but I have to drive in/around it all the time.

We don’t usually see each others headers. Here’s mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it) (Mine is not as glorious as Jody's)

I don't learn well from the video format and I never have. I knew my days were numbered at the last creative agency I worked at when the head of marketing insisted I watch Youtube videos to shore up my Javascript ability. Learning typed code from video? No thanks

The joy of taking a survey on MLB dot com and having a few places to gripe about how much I hate gambling but nowhere whatsoever to unload my long-burning fury about market-based broadcast blackouts, the scourge of all that is holy for decades upon decades

Fermin has now hit two bombs in two days after going something like 0 for 35, which is great! Maldonado and Nola would also run into a few every once and a while too, but Padre catchers have never been consistent hitters this decade so ideally Freddy will keep going.

I wonder how detrimental it would be to my alleged career if I just deleted my account there

I just discovered this thread and I gotta say that I agree with everything in it. When I finally barf up my long-unawaited opus on the life of a washed-up middle-aged bard, it's gonna have some badass maps, lemme tellya. keirdubois.com/the-game-boa...

age yourself with a childhood crush

Anyway it's nice that the Padres are slugging now but many of their pitchers—starters and vaunted bullpen—are getting worn out

He's put up zeros so far today, though, which is of course why he's currently a big league pitcher and why I'm currently experiencing project creep on three separate freelance jobs

As a Padre pitcher, Lucas Giolito still kinda feels like he's doomed to be the Rich Hill of Jake Arrietas

Just heard @jesseagler.bsky.social and Bob Scanlan discussing thoracic outlet on Padres radio because Wheeler is now pitching against SD and while I'm glad surgery worked in Zack's case, I'm still glad I chose not to do it. The clot was truly one of the weirdest experiences of my life.

I'm sorry to bring this up yet again but I guess I can't help myself. I don't hate "AI" but I would never use it to write an email like the one I just did, which was asking politely but firmly "please explain with literally more detail, including visuals, so I can do what you asked in a timely way"

Today's unsolicited trivia: my favorite minor conquistador is Pedro de Candia, who among other things was the cartographer on Pizarro's Peru expedition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_d... I just like the idea that this feral nerd was known amongst his fellow genocidal maniacs as “Pete from Crete.”

Stuff like this is why I don't fear or loathe so-called "AI" and simply can't get enraged by its usage. When I see slop I actually feel a lot better about what I've used AI for (when I've used it at all). It's not gonna take my job or your job, folks. It's not capable.

Graphic design is not my passion

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

Favorite video game easter egg of all time.