Endless Dan Moore

Whoa I can't believe I'm so few degrees from a vinfast

Yeah, unfortunately they have done a terrible job of trying to enter the US market (in addition to getting killed by the death of the tax credit) so I think they're destined to be one of the rarest cars on the roads. Fun as a car spotter, probably less fun as an owner

Do you have the guts

Chicago's game: 16-inch softball celebrates 135th anniversary YouTube video by Localish

Drop Baseball5, introduce... please excuse me while I speak European Sports Commissioner for a second... Softball16

Seriously, what is this. And don't even get me started on "Baseball5," a low-barrier-to-entry pseudo-sport invented because nobody in Europe has ever played Chicago-style 16-inch softball, where you don't wear a glove

And to be clear, I have no problem with Europe, only European sports federations. Terrible aesthetics and also unbelievably corrupt

I am now aware of the 2027 "WBSC Premier12", but even worse than the exclusion of MLB players is the extreme Euro-sport-ness of the name. If the baseball governing body has to be in Europe for some reason it should at least be the Czech Republic

The World Baseball Classic is so good. Sad that we've been bamboozled by the World Cup and the Olympics into only doing these every four years (or so)

The "handwritten" detail really elevates this to a dream job

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This is what cricket looks like when you're American

I'm going to be thinking about this AI-generated comic for the rest of my life. Every inch of it rewards closer inspection

Looking into becoming a Trebic Nuclears fan in the Czech domestic league

World Baseball Classic season, baby... if you want to watch the best Czech and Australian baseball players in the world match up in Tokyo it's the only game in town

Thank you for replying to this because I thought about you the other day when Melvin's daycare posted this photo of him on Facebook and I kept meaning to get in touch. He's a natural

Nancy (to me, in the car): When you're a baby and just born do you think you're afraid?
Me: Huh... I don't know that you can really understand your feelings like that when you're a newborn.
Melvin (unprompted): I scared of the fan in mine room. Because it looks like Ghost Face.

Look: If you don't figure out what young people like on the comics page you're going to wake up one day and find they aren't reading newspapers anymore. (Great 1996 landing page too)

Landed on a Wikipedia article about a random comic called The Norm. Have not read the comic but am now reading the archived website... it was a great moment in time when the major feature on your comic's website could involve telling people to watch for it in their newspaper and mail you a clipping

Never too late to live your dreams either, took me 37 years to lock this one in

Read "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver for the first time since grad school... he's still got it

If you look this guy up on Wikipedia you should know that, according to "Hard Landing," he was basically a patsy set up by the airline's previous CEO. So you shouldn't let this color your enjoyment of his biographies of William Cobbett and Virginia Woolf

A career

Love that, I have some John Gunther "Inside Europe" and "Inside the Soviet Union" books from the 60s and 70s along those lines. This sort of book is extremely high variance but the best ones are a blast to read

Obviously this is a pseudogenre built around reading "Car: A Drama of the American Workplace" and then having to keep scratching that itch for the rest of your life. Some other good ones:

Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinger Jr (1995)

Found another book in my favorite pseudogenre, "business nonfiction from the 90s where nervous execs and teams of engineers are using a mix of computers, physical models, fax machines, etc to build or use a cool thing." Lots of fun so far

Yes!!

I was ragging on Lindsay for buying one that was missing the marquee topper but she really showed me in the end

Thank you to @reidman.bsky.social, @charlieverdin.com, and @nosyum.bsky.social for their assistance in this insane project. We had to do a kind of Great Pyramid log railroad to get it through our back yard and then Reid took off our front door. Both pieces weigh more than a refrigerator

We're doing it

Lindsay and I, with the help of some friends, in the process of making a large, permanent choice about our home decor