Cam Schlittler’s 4 seamer really does look like it’s rising.

Two thoughts on today’s run: 1) had to cut short my portion of the run in the bottom of the arroyo thanks to a coyote laying across the path. Maybe not the best at sunset. 2) also running after a giant meal and cocktail at Amigos was a bad idea unless I really wanted terrible heartburn.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

I learned recently that the tide does not actually come in or go out; the ocean is held like an oval of water, bulging on two sides, one pulled out by the moon and one falling away, opposite the moon, furthest from its qualities: an oval made of attraction and its absence.

Thaddeus is 2 years old today. And appparently tolerant of my wife making him wear a hat.

BREAKING: NYC Mayor Mamdani signs new law that says you don't have to go to work if your pet is asleep on you or just being extra cute.

Forgot to write down my thoughts after today’s run, but I’ll just say that I love running in the Arroyo.

At the turning of the millennium there were 769 satellites in space, 2026 there are 14,500 satellites. I spent 7mins photographing the Milky Way rising above Poatiri Mt Charles Hoopers Inlet, on Muaupoko (Otago Peninsula) this evening. Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ #Photography

What if there were no hypothetical questions

Dodgers win!

stunning Paris was how this whole mess got started

space nerds 🤝 lego fans New Hubble Space Telescope set coming out next month!

Roki Sasaki has been struggling lately, but Bailolo Rocky is a damn sweet walk up song.

"I have to tell you, I am just shocked by all of this. There was nothing in Toht’s personal history aside from his embrace of violent ideologies and history of racist comments and rape apologism to suggest he might be this kind of morally bankrupt person."

It’s ok if we make everything a planet. If it’s round and not a star, it’s a planet. We don’t need 8 or 9, we can have dozens or hundreds of them. Yeah, we won’t be able to use a short mnemonic sentence to memorize them all, but we have AI to do stuff like that for us these days, right?

Came to a Dodgers game all by myself on a Shohei “greatest game” bobblehead night. Sitting in the top row of top deck which is actually pretty sweet since it gets shade. Had to get this bobblehead since I actually went to game 4 of the NLCS last year and it was pretty goddamn amazing.

Thought #2: I saw a lonely abandoned 40 oz bottle of Olde English on the roadside, and I wonder if youngsters engage in stupid activities with those these days.

Thought #1: my Spotify presented me with the song Brimful of Asha by Cornershop, and it reminded me that someone told me back around 97 that they were going to be the next Beatles, just a few years after people said the same thing about Oasis and Teenage Fanclub a few years before.

Thoughts I have while running feel disproportionately deep, like telling someone about a nonsense dream. Since I’m building up to a half marathon this fall for the chance of trying to get a marathon before I turn 50 next summer, I’m going to motivate myself by quoting this to gather those thoughts.

I don’t know anything about Ben Rice except he’s a Yankee and he’s going to be in the home run derby, but I have 2 questions: 1) what were his parents thinking? And 2) is the nickname “uncle” allowed despite rebranding due to racist product mascots?

Go Belgium, I guess?

I don’t think I love the decision to remove the Balogun red card suspension, even if the original call seemed harsh. I guess FIFA will always FIFA, when it comes down to it.

I have never seen a post-match fireworks show set up inside the stadium. All the ones I have seen are shot from a space just outside of the stadium. I haven’t seen any news of any injuries thank goodness. What was Angel City thinking?

Stunning fireball SE of Tucson early this morning. Got at least as bright as the moon and left a very nice glowing gas trail. #meteor #tucson #space #moon #arizona 🔭🧪

Wow, Mike Love is really old. He sounded a lot different when I saw them 30+ years ago during Kokomo days.

Apropos of this, I am about to see the Beach Boys and John Stamos at the Hollywood Bowl. Or maybe it’s just Beach Boy, because I think it’s just Mike Love at this point.

I’m not catholic except via marriage (which explicitly doesn’t count, because it was not in a Catholic Church), but I’m kind of digging the irony of a bunch of guys whose entire shtick is that the Catholic Church is not exclusionary enough since Vatican II is feeling sad that they got excluded.

Deep thought of the day: The Beach Boys and Alice In Chains are two sides of the same musical coin.

Some local radio sports idiot called it Bosnia HerzeWestCovina, and that made me laugh far more than the joke actually deserved.

Munception

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

At Griffith Park to see Coriolanus, a Shakespeare play that I’m not 100% certain I had ever heard of before, and it’s Pride night. Love my #IndieShakes.

Pausa de hidratación

So despite being an Indiana native, I believe I have watched only one Fever game in my life. So I know nothing of context here, but for one day the internet has convinced me to be a fan of Sophie Cunningham simply for her commitment to the bit.

I fear I’ve posted about this before, but I am irrationally upset by seeing Liquid IV ads, because the name is doubly stupid: 1) IVs are always liquid. 2) it’s a powder, so it’s definitively not a liquid.

Why is it Türkiye, but not Deutschland?

My daughter bought me a beer and also got me a Father’s Day coozie. It’s a good life.

You can see the warehouse fire plume from Dodger Stadium. Pretty smoky here too, but I got my daughters here for a Fathers Day game, so I’ll brave the structure fire metal-ridden smoke.

Hours of daylight on the summer solstice. 😎

The Boyle Heights warehouse fire smoke has officially made it to west Pasadena sometime this morning. Had to run around and close all the windows, turn on air filters and start up the AC even though the temp is perfect.

Apparently, this is a false statement going around.

THIS IS FAKE. DELETE THIS. We have enough about this guy to hate without making up fake shit.

Having actually had throat cancer due to this, let me tell you: get the damn shots. Throat radiation treatments seriously suck.

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

I feel like they're wedging 90's-era Pentium desktops in the arms of those glasses, which is why his ear are folding in half. Those fans are going to be loud in your ears.

It’s now official: Avi Loeb is the RFK Jr. of astrophysics. 🧪

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

I like how the World Cup just calls them Los Angeles Stadium, Miami Stadium, Boston Stadium, etc. without any corporate sponsors. I know it’s because FIFA just doesn’t want to give free advertising to people who aren’t directly paying them for the privilege, but it’s nice anyway.

🎉 Really excited to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure for Fall 2026! 🥂 It was a long, stressful road with a lot of hard work, but its also been a ton of fun. Couldn't have done it without a lot of advisors, mentors, colleagues, students, friends, along the way.