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it may finally be time to fire Nick Saban

very common misconception that a lazy river's flow is driven by jets of pumped water, when in fact it is a natural result of the coriolis effect. obvious in retrospect.

Thomas Pynchon getting a "Will Thomas Pynchon appear at the Oscars?" prop listed on Polymarket, and then making a fortune trading on said market, would be perfect

[bringing my 'Deep Cuts' vinyl to the DJ at the listening bar] here ya go [interrupting guy with Aussie accent] that's not The Knife, *this* is The Knife (whips out 'Gimme Fiction')

Vikings getting shut out 26-0 at Seattle and then shutting out Washington 31-0 the very next week... as far as I can tell that's just the 11th time since the merger that a team has had back-to-back shutouts where one was a win and the other was a loss

(voice recording) why don't you just TELL me the name of the Panthers defender you'd like to intercept you?

Very grateful for my time as head of Olympic Films. And to those who said we couldn't trim Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by 95 minutes OR get the rights to Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" to use repeatedly throughout the film, I guess you just don't understand Chantal the way I do.

reading the list of meds after getting discharged from oral surgery youtu.be/DTpQDBgOQjk

so it's nearing halftime and the most likely scorigami is 2-0. amazing

Rock & Roll HOF issuing an emergency correction stating that the nod was intended not for The White Stripes, but just Jack, and exclusively based on his contribution to 2003's "Danger, High Voltage!"

Shazam identifying "Disorder" by Joy Division in a split second when it started playing at the bar... GOOD. you SHOULD.

@davidjroth.bsky.social finally cracked and got a fanatics made article, for the brand new Ontario Tower Buzzers, loogit this guy!

low-hanging fruit but has to be done

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@mobute.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social very much enjoying dabbling the Its Christmastown archives, but have yet to happen upon any Manos-level disasters. is there a google doc or wiki of some kind with your ratings, say, that might help one locate the most Extremely Wet ones?

the current top 4 NFL teams by point differential: Vikings, Lions, Bears, Packers. it's just the NFC North! truly wild @drewmagary.bsky.social

@davidjroth.bsky.social @drewmagary.bsky.social spotted in Pittsburgh; my sicko brain immediately went to "which Defector staffers would i cast in a 'Waiting For Guffman' style community theater production of 'Speed: The Musical!'"

1003125 = 10^6 + 5^5 (bored; later) well hey turns out no other (a,b,c,d) of natural numbers with smaller sum works for 1003125 = a^b + c^d

CBS NFL halftime show featuring Bill "Is that John Waters? <squints> ...unclear, will investigate further" Cowher

thanks to the fine folks at @defector.bsky.social i was able to find a certain 6-letter animal (mascot) in today's Spelling Bee 🤲

with Name of the Year seemingly on hiatus I am not sure how to properly contain the learnings that there is an Olympic trampolinist named Gabriel Albuquerque @davidjroth.bsky.social please advise this is elite guy-remembering in the making

the who now?

@davidjroth.bsky.social my 7yo is deep into "name every car you see". points out electric vs non-electric. asks about extinct brands, like pontiac and saab. is DYING to spot a cybertruck in the wild. i'll let him enjoy it when one comes, but your piece today rocks defector.com/have-you-see...

[robert moses after one visit to the water park] "the lazy river is too congested, so clearly we should build a vast network of cross-park lazy rivers." [proceeds to demolish the lower-income cabanas]

finally tromped up to 87th St to try the terrific samosa sandwich at Punjabi Junction, at $9 for a friggin footlong you can't not afford not get one (h/t @davidjroth.bsky.social)

today's flaming hydra made me yearn for california donuts, lots of yum yum trips at mudd (to the very one mentioned in today's @davidjroth.bsky.social article) and elsewhere way back when. strip mall CA donuts >> the zhuzhed-up (and often hyper-sweet) NYC donuts i say!

spotted in my apartment building's basement. does DRAB need a few years worth of material? @davidjroth.bsky.social @laurentheisen.bsky.social

FOX/NFL brass: I know you're under the gun, week after week, coming up with storylines for upcoming games. And with the playoffs looming, you're slammed. The pressure is near-boiling. And so: for a mere $700,000 fee, I will gladly provide you with one (1) thread for the upcoming Rams-Lions game.

the twins fan in me is proud of this factoid i stumbled on a while back: in 1974 they played in, and won, the only-ever MLB game to have runs scored in 4 extra innings www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MI...

Raiders scoring 63 one week after being shut out... I would have guessed this might've been the biggest-ever week-over-week scoring improvement in NFL history. But no! In 1966 Washington beat the Giants 72-41 a week after losing 14-3 to the Browns.

@davidjroth.bsky.social [clamoring of reporters shortly after a 78-5 loss to Sam Houston] "Coach Roth Coach Roth!!" [clamoring dies down] "Is there any truth to the rumor that you'll be moving from your position at University of Austin to crosstown rivals the New Technocrats at Cyber U?"

i'm sorry a winter what now

@drewmagary.bsky.social made your apple crisp exactly as specified the other day and it was terrific. (need some time to reflect on how abysmally slow i was at peeling and coring all those apples, though.)

the previous 12 years of ESPN's weekly NFL Power Rankings (1=best, 32=worst) for the Vikings. the 2017 season stands out of course. there's a single week at the #1 spot, in 2016. i had totally forgotten the 2011-2013 awfulness. @drewmagary.bsky.social

building on essential work by @davidjroth.bsky.social. audible gasps from the string theory community as i unveil a closed-form solution to "what if everything was exactly the same, except for the levels of public interest about the search for the new james bond and the new blippi being swapped"