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NOBLETIGER is an acronym for No-Outs Bases-Loaded Ending with Team Incapable of Getting Easy Run. Statistically, a team who has the bases loaded with no outs scores at least one run approximately 87% of the time so scoring no runs is highly unlikely.

And the Yankees had one in the 9th inning, and lost to the Red Sox 3-1

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RIP Jane Goodall (she loved this Far Side, btw)

https://bsky.app/profile/warnock.senate.gov/post/3m25ogmpdlr27:

Kind of a meh month for new to me music.


4 star:
* I Want You To Want Me (Letters to Cleo)
* Song To the Siren (Sinéad O'Connor)
* Ten Crack Commandments (2007 Remaster) (The Notorious B.I.G.)

3 star:
* New York (St. Vincent)
* Don't Dream It's Over (Trailerization) [feat. Sam Opoku & Joey Massari] [Full Version from Anniversary Film Trailer] (MakeSound)
* Break My Stride (Radio Edit) [feat. Tony T] (Bodybangers)
* Right Back to It (feat. MJ Lenderman) (Waxahatchee)
* Say I Yi Yi (Ying Yang Twins)
* Luckiest Man (The Wood Brothers)

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Some scenes from Ferry Beach

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10 years ago, I was thinking about trying to promte my comice So You're Going to Die via memes... I like the sentiment.

Plotting about the end of the world makes people crazy. Billionaires maybe a few dozen times so. ahahahaha guess Qatar gets what it pays for buying Trump a big shiny jet for Air Force 1.

ahaha I was dropping off a tuba and got on the HONK! news coverage (playing at about 20s in, a few lines about HONK! community at 1:40)

Her eyes beat dust out of the tapestry until it was bright. Was she "a little bit high all the time"? Had the sickness blazed new pathways and cast light on tangled old ones? To be sure, she had forgotten the multiplication tables, and now felt there was a secret number between two and three.

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"I'm sorry not to respond to your email," she wrote, "but I live completely in the present now."

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"Any preexisting anxiety?" the doctor asked.
"...No," she said very quietly, though in fact she was the kind of child who was scared not only of the fireworks but of the half hour it took to find parking before the fireworks.

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What does this sentence mean to you: *The more closely you look at a word the more distantly it looks back?*

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Amazed at how Lynette can floss in the shower. But I'm not sure why I have to use a mirror to help guide me. It's not like I'm seeing much of anything in there.

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Of course reading Lockwood's latest fever dream book is making me want to try and write in these little prose-poetry autobiographical snippets. But I guess that was the format I had when I wrote in my PalmPilot journal. (For a hot minute Twitter caught that vibe, for both me and Lockwood I guess, though she got kinda famous with it)

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At work someone mentions they are removing an old defunct project's code repository. That makes me a little melancholy. It reminds me of that IKEA Lamp commercial - where they pull every heart string to make a lamp being discarded curbside feel like abandoning a dog, and then mock the viewer for feeling bad for the lamp "Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you're crazy. It has no feelings! And the new one is much better."

(But if you're read "Still Life with Woodpecker" - maybe we shouldn't be disdainful of objects just because they are inanimate. And we have to take this IKEA shill's word for it that the "new one is much better", that it's not just am example of fashion driven waste.)

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Yet another evening I close my eyes, pinch the bridge of my nose, take two short sharp breaths and remind myself millions of people led satisfying, meaningful lives during the fall of the Roman Empire.

These things are slower than we remember, sometimes.

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I've been feeling on edge lately. Not sure why.

I hate that I can't compare how stressed I might feel now with how I've felt at earlier times in my life. Feelings come and go and the rough edges of memory get eroded by the passage of time.

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We're saving Christianity. We've saving God.

That's... quite the theological stance there, buddy. As Jon Favreau put it "We've moved rather quickly from "God saved Trump" to "Trump is saving God," which I guess is the foundation of the new MAGA religion?"

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Republicans are cheating a**holes. Swear in the duly elected representative, and take your lumps as the Epstein files get opened.

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Thinking about my current "stressed" mood.

Some of it is caused by my Todo list.

20 odd years ago I was really into David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology. (Looking back I see that's where I got the guideline of, if it takes 2 minutes or less, just do it now.) Actually I corresponded with him just a bit.

Funny looking at this page where I outline my "ultimate Todo program"

Over the years I've drifted from some of GTD's suggestions (especially in terms of categorizing things). And I wonder if I'm hurt or helped by my "daily grind" category, things that popup every day - diary entries, previewing the day, etc)

But I also think about how much has changed for me in 20 years:
1. the rise of social media and how it clamors for attention
2. I suspect the ever increasing volume of inbox stuff
3. having connected phones rather than offline PDAs
4. My life with its band commitments 1-4 times a week
5. A national political scene that has gotten weirder and more authoritarian. It used to be just the idiocy and lies of Iraq War 2 and a sleepy response to Katrina.

I dunno. This post seemed to have more of a point when I started it. :-D FIFA is hell-bent on making the 2026 World Cup the stupidest sporting event in history - impressive to see NFT raise its ugly, stupid, money-grubbing head. Kinda glad I don't care about soccer.

Also funny... Trump threatening to move to block games in Foxboro because he doesn't like Boston's mayor.

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My grown up babies, the reason I breathe, the reason I hold my breath

Prokopetz mentioned Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories as the proximate source of a secular humanist fiction trope how gods have strength proportionate to the amount of faith humans have in them.

I was looking for a Kindle version of the book and was annoyed the main options presented are an AUDIO book for free and a hardcover for almost $300.

I know it's a little misleading... the audiobook is free "with subscription" and might be a rerecording from a pre-digital age anyway, it's not absolutely trivial to make an e-copy of an old book, there might be cheaper used paperbacks around etc. But still, annoying.

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coworker used this image with luke and a romping at-at in a chat and I love it

No Kings Day outing with Wren and Lynette and Liz and then some pumpkin carving at Miller's Two fun gigs today - School of Honk played SomerStreets: Monster Mash, then later I headed over to Spontaneous Celebration's Lantern Parade at JP Pond with JP Honk.

Here I am as a skeleton with my Sousabone, with Zoot being channeled by Sophie

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Just helped my nephew with long division by hand. Dang, its been a minute. Trying to express... first go on vibes and try and get a ballpark for the the right answer, to check the work. Then do the ritual.

Having to remember to drop the zeros each time is kind of funky. Trump tearing down the white house to build a ballroom (all while, say, SNAP benefits get shut down) is some real Hunger Games level shit.

In meta-kirk.is stuff;

I've been doing this blog daily for almost 25 years. A little something... if I miss a day I try to go back and keep up the continuity.

I used to give every blog's daily entry a title. At some point around 2010 I stopped doing that religiously, but then for some reason I got it into my head that each day DOES deserve a little title.

So over the last year I've had a daily ritual of going over the thisday feature and adding titles to every entry.

I'm going to miss that habit, though I'm glad to have one thing off my daily routine.

Heh, I just found this entry I made where I describe a similar project I had forgotten about, where I took a year to clean up all the "quotes" I had collected into my preferred formatting - that entry also has a lot of the history of this blog. I've been annoyed by dreams lately.

Like, the way dreams fudge the details of everything - I think the parallels between early LLM generated images is no coincidence.

Also frustrating is how they slip from memory.

I started reading "The Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams" which is a bit eggheaded (kind of targeted to the intro-student text market) So far my biggest takeaway is that A. we're an intensely social species

The brain network that is typically called "the social brain network" is that set of interconnected brain regions that handles or mediates all of the thinking and emotional work we have to do to keep track of and regulate our social interactions with others. Since we are an intensely social species, most of what our brains preferentially process is composed of socially relevant information; things like: Who did what to whom and why?; What social alliances/groups am I in, and am I in good standing with those alliances?; Who can I trust and how do I remain on cooperative terms with various groups of people I have to interact with on a daily basis?; and so on.

And then B, sleep is part of working all that out:

Interestingly, the sleeping brain appears to be vitally important for this brain network. The set of structures comprising the social brain (particularly the mentalizing and amygdala networks) are gradually taken off-line after sleep onset and throughout NREM sleep (basically the first half of the night) and then are gradually put back together or reconnected and reactivated during each subsequent episode of REM until the brain fully comes back online after waking

I'm still annoyed that such a big fraction of our lives has to be spent in this weirdo state.

On FB Ruth Scheinfeldt Pinho posted this photo with my Papa Sam in a shirt with my face on it, I think by some computer printer thing they had at the mall. (My mom explained the woman is "Aunt Mary Scheinfeldt, Papa Sam's sister, and only officer out of the 10 cousins of that generation of the Scheinfeldt and Smith clan. Her husband, Uncle Frank officiated at our wedding.") I guess this is one of the more intriguing of the concept designs for the original Enterprise

(pretty cool site overall actually)

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These are all republican couches [...] they're all moving parts, recliner, headset, built in speaker"

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