i have since learned more about simon and garfunkel

Can an Arsenal supporter tell me what we're getting with Granit Xhaka at Sunderland? My only hope for this season is that it does not end in relegation and I'm not thrilled that we lost Jobe Bellingham.

I spent one day with New Outlook and had to turn it off. Seems like it was designed for people who primarily use Outlook on their iPads while multitasking in meetings, sending one-sentence replies and frantically searching for That Attachment™. Useless for real work.

*RECORD SCRATCH, FREEZE FRAME* "Yep, that's me...a white, heterosexual man born in the Jimmy Carter administration, prone to bouts of self-pity, who has never wittingly heard a single note of Elliott Smith's music. You're probably wondering how I got here..."

How will we fix the administration's damage to research? You won't like the answer: big corporations will create research wings in the vein of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC and outbid public universities for the services of PhDs. Don't worry, folks: the Ivy League will still be fine.

Peter you suck Peter you suck Peter you don't do anything of value

The further along I get in my career, the angrier I become about when companies turn themselves inside out in order to avoid doing the things they know they need to do--inevitably incurring more cost and waste in the process.

Sometimes people will make life decisions that superficially seem very aligned with their values and priorities, but are in reality only aligned with a funhouse mirror version of their self-image.

RIDE THE SNAKE

When they hire consultants to just have a look at the work that the other consultants did.

I watched the first episode of The Bear and, honestly, I think my interest in watching a second episode would be much higher if the cast were all Muppets and Carmy was the Swedish Chef.

I would like to see some content on Baseball-Reference focused on chewing tobacco. Who still does it? Do their teams play better? Home/road splits? Fielding? Injuries? Can we get some weird bespoke stats like dCaWAR (Dip-and-Chaw Adjusted Wins Above Replacement)?

HEATHER: "Mike! Mike! *screams* Mike!"

Anchor Hocking Fire King FTW

If I was going to bet on one large public university to go out of business, I'd put my money on the University of Maine.

I want to move. I want to go.

RETVRN

[Back to the Future, except it's an AMC Eagle instead of a Delorean. Nothing else is changed.]

Periodic reminder: most of the world's worst problems are very complicated. If you are consuming content that treats one as being simple, being the fault of a single person or entity, or really being another issue in disguise, you are probably just consuming propaganda.