Polish CEO steals hat from kid. Gets called out, blames the kids for being too slow. Company starts to feel the pressure of his douchery. Suddenly he's repentant.
I finally started watching Pantheon on Netflix. It originally aired between 2022-23 on AMC+. Wow, what a great show. It is two season long, 8 episodes each season and the episodes are between 45-50 minutes in length. I highly recommend it
just a warning .. going to try to catch up on Emily in Paris thru season 4 since it is set in Rome (2nd half). both our children are studying abroad there this semester so that seems like a fun thing to do.
also, we have a 4 wk trip to Rome booked starting the week of Thxgiving. 2-ish wks of working remotely and 2-ish wks of vacation w/ the kids.
Professional Baking by Wayne Gisslen (8th edition). A very good text. My key takeaway is that baking is dead simple. Doing it well is devilishly difficult and cannot be taught except by doing it for real.
Wife and I started Department Q, we are on episode 6 and we are enjoying it so far. Seems like we have 3 mysteries that we are trying to solve. 1 of which should be solved by the end of the season and the other two will probably be left unresolved to set up a 2nd season.
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF LIFE
Candydate for a 2025 Pulitzer Prize
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-much-candy-is-in-a-major-league-dugout
$1.3 billion
https://www.powerball.com/
If I win, I will donate $5 million to the Cal NIL
The time a car entered in a bicycle race and came in six [checks notes]... days behind the leader
https://www.jalopnik.com/1953547/peugeot-entered-car-bicycle-race/
Linsanity has ended
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/linsanity-out-jeremy-lin-first-asian-american-nba-champion-retires/ar-AA1LDSTD
Polish CEO steals hat from kid. Gets called out, blames the kids for being too slow. Company starts to feel the pressure of his douchery. Suddenly he's repentant.
https://www.totalprosports.com/tennis/millionaire-ceo-releases-second-statement-snatching-souvenir-hat-from-kid-us-open/
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Former Wazzu/USC basketball coach George Ravelling has passed away
https://x.com/GeorgeRaveling/status/1962895175535198644
Interesting Week 2 matchups in the ACC this week:
Illinois @ Duke
Baylor @ SMU
UVA @ NC State
Furd @ BYU
BC @ Michigan State
Vandy @ VA Tech
Ocean of Soul @ Cal
Weekend ACC results:
Wake Forest beats Kennesaw State (checks notes) 10-9 on missed Q1 PAT. There were 13 punts and 3 missed 4th down attempts.
GA Tech beats Colorado 27-20. Suck it, Prime.
#4 Clemson loses to #9 LSU 17-10
FSU beats #8 Alabama 31-17
#16 SMU beats East Texas A&M orphanage for the sick and blind 42-13
Cuse loses to #24 Tennessee 45-26
Pitt beats Duquesne 61-9. Duquesne had 8 first downs.
BC beats Fordham 66-10
L'ville beats Eastern Kentucky 51-17
UVA beats Myrtletucky 48-7
#10 Miami beats #6 Notre Dame 27-24
VA Tech falls to South Carolina 24-11
North Carolina lost to the Fighting Sonny Dykes 48-14
JFC
https://people.com/university-of-kentucky-cheerleader-arrested-after-allegedly-hiding-dead-newborn-in-her-closet-11801448
Army may have lost to FCS Tarleton State, but one of their players is a winner
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/army-football-player-father-rescue-man-burning-car-rcna228413
Bill Belichick finds out football is more difficult when you don't have Tom Brady. TCU 48, UNC 14
https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/tcu-horned-frogs-north-carolina-tar-heels-202509010006/
Anothrr former NFL headcoach can't hack it in FBS. @Big surprise@.
He better hope one Brady’s sons is good at playing QB and then get him to play at UNC
Best food truck you know
Biryani cart at the corner of 46th and 6th.
Hallo Berlin (RIP) had the best currywurst in town and it was a close 2nd.
PRO
Luis Suarez is up to some oral-based shenanigans again
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/46125098/inter-miami-suarez-appears-spit-sounders-staffer
Duran inside-the-park-homer left Red Sox fans hungry like the wolf
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/breaking-news/article/jarren-duran-hits-inside-the-park-home-run-to-power-red-sox-past-pirates-200821664.html
Pete Rose owed $90k to a bookie
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/fbi-files-on-pete-rose-reveal-mlb-hits-king-once-owed-bookie-90000-in-gambling-losses/
Pesky Pole
https://bsky.app/profile/mlbhomeruns.bsky.social/post/3lxsgadtrj22q
CAL
WE MISS YOU ERLYN MADSEN!
SCORIGAMI!
https://x.com/SGBear2/status/1962185948306809126
What is your target bed time?
Around here, Target closes at 10pm on most days.
depends on west coast sports.
if there is a Cal game or Warriors game starting at 1030p, then the target is 130a. otherwise between 1030p-1130p.
Target: 11 pm
Actual: usually closer to midnight
Same target and am usually pretty close.
Same
9:00 PM.
HOW WAS YOUR LONG WEEKEND?
nice trip to the north.
2 days in Saranac Lake at neighbors lakes house in the Adriondacks.
2 days in Burlington doing some outdoors stuff and successful (clean) inspection on the 2nd home we are buying up there.
POLITICS
Tyranny
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest
Tucker Carlson goes full Church Lady
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/tucker-carlson-and-guest-argue-satan-controls-hollywood-shows-like-friends/
The interwebs comes up with a conspiracy theory that Trump had Transient Ischemic Attack
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1962233429770285093
WHAT DO YOU CALL A CAR WITH ONLY ONE HEADLIGHT?
IDK ... one-eyed __something__
pediddle
DBD AV CLUB
I finally started watching Pantheon on Netflix. It originally aired between 2022-23 on AMC+. Wow, what a great show. It is two season long, 8 episodes each season and the episodes are between 45-50 minutes in length. I highly recommend it
this looks good
just a warning .. going to try to catch up on Emily in Paris thru season 4 since it is set in Rome (2nd half). both our children are studying abroad there this semester so that seems like a fun thing to do.
also, we have a 4 wk trip to Rome booked starting the week of Thxgiving. 2-ish wks of working remotely and 2-ish wks of vacation w/ the kids.
Professional Baking by Wayne Gisslen (8th edition). A very good text. My key takeaway is that baking is dead simple. Doing it well is devilishly difficult and cannot be taught except by doing it for real.
Wife and I started Department Q, we are on episode 6 and we are enjoying it so far. Seems like we have 3 mysteries that we are trying to solve. 1 of which should be solved by the end of the season and the other two will probably be left unresolved to set up a 2nd season.