RIP Bud Cort

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Perhaps not the intended lesson of this part of the Bible, but it’s hard for me not to think of the builders of the Tower of Babel as quitters, folks who abandoned a project after a turn of events that would have been just a temporary setback for sturdier folks.

8th place in the grand masters (over 50) division at this year’s virtual Head of the Charles, 2nd in age division (5th overall) in the bike event that they have started doing alongside the row. Coach Prodan has our CRI team training very hard this winter.

Starting to have serious concerns about our president’s ability to compete in the upcoming world indoor rowing championships.

tfw your school has laid off both the folks who used to remove the snow and also the folks who used to decide that there is too much snow to open

In the old days when you would ski at Blue Hills you would see guys skiing in Gronk or Tom Brady jerseys, but right now it’s a Drake Maye town.

Looking at the list of countries that have signed up for President Trump’s new “Board of Peace” initiative, noticing that we are missing most of the traditional powerhouses of international rowing competition. www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...

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Ice disappearing.

huh

Venezuelan oil can be tricky to extract and refine. But if enough patriotic Americans deploy the intrinsic folk-ingenuity of the common people and make other small sacrifices in order to build small-scale backyard oil refineries, then our venture in South America can succeed.

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this should fix things

Just got back from the Galapagos. Very very very cool place to visit. 10/10, very strongly recommend.

High altitude #ECON5k. Ran in Quito, roughly 9,300 feet above sea level. Quito is a very beautiful city! The Andes are no joke, they are big.

time for a “who goes to prison last” tontine

Running the #ECON5k yesterday on a breathtakingly beautiful day in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

My startup has created an easy-to-use AI-powered tool that can oversee and put useful guardrails on the operations of AI-powered newsroom vending machines. We are looking for investors and willing to sell 20 percent at a $100 million post-money valuation.

The Charles River freezing over.

Posting this because I am curious about whether any of my fellow avid senior amateur athletes have started to use the new continuous lactate monitoring technologies. www.triathlete.com/gear/tech-we...

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It was very cold but extremely fun

Modeling the 2026 #ECON5k gear. For more information go to sites.google.com/view/econ5k/home Cc @econ5k.bsky.social @inaganguli.bsky.social @sandrahgoff.bsky.social @yanarodgers.bsky.social

<me, a professor> “but actually you technically can’t wrap something in piss”

“never turn against other insiders”

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sky-man is my goatmaster

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