a cool bit on the difference between how we view sports vs. other great artists in this LA Times piece on what makes Katie Ledecky so great latimes.com/sports/olympic…

so how do y'all phonetically differentiate between pronouncing "woman" and "women" -- I've heard some tomfoolery today

does anyone have any tips for rock-paper-scissors? i can't prove this, but I swear my lifetime winning percentage is 20%

prediction: one day Apple will have an update so that you can sort your text messages so that unread conversations are shown first (like gmail's email)

happy 21st of september! the best corner of the internet today is the YouTube comment's on Earth, Wind & Fire's music video for "September"

props to the LA Times for finding the one angle of Flores' check swing that made it seem conceivable that he went

to anyone who has ever had the mental bandwidth to do laundry on any day that isn't Sunday, what's your secret?

from the Madeleine Albright obituary in the NY Times. what a presence nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/…

"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors" -Jonas Salk

shoutout to St. Cloud St. who has "St." twice in their name but they are abbreviations for different things

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” -Oscar Wilde

Lincoln's sense of humor was self deprecating in the best way. Once during a debate, an opponent called him “two-faced." He replied, "If I had two faces, do you think I’d be wearing this one?" -- incredible (h/t Tim Urban )

Great tidbit from Fall of Civilizations : to figure out when wars took place, archaeologists look at how often they can find buried hoards of coins. Only in wartime did people bury their money and forget to retrieve it (or die or flee before they could)

So apparently the dik-dik (a small African antelope) uses its tears to mark its territory?? Vulnerability kings and queens. Shoutout evolution thedodo.com/daily-dodo/dik…