Interesting Monkey

16 year old nilay still watching, judging from behind a tree

Don’t they already get paid like $5000 a pitch?

This is getting to be a problem.

Very much enjoyed the Billie Eilish billionaire shade. I hope this increases.

So I asked ChatGPT and it said it was invented in Canada in the 1960s. My colleague then asked ChatGPT and it said that it was invented in Germany in the 1950s and that many people mistakenly think it was invented in Canada.

As a Canadian, we were always told Hawaiin pizza was invented in Canada. I’m in Germany and this came up and a German colleague said it was invented in Germany.

Not a slant to basketball, which I love, but this excludes the 10 million Canadians that tuned into Sportsnet to watch game 7. Maybe the most watched anything in Canadian history.

I’d have liked that season more if the Jays had won that game, sure. But kind of in the same way that I’d have liked a filet mignon more if it had one more bite. It was still pretty fucking good!

A tremendous World Series decided by the slimmest of margins. Not at all sure the better team won, but that’s baseball. The Blue Jays were fierce, and I’m a bit heartbroken for all the Jays fans in my feed and orbit — Toronto folks have been supportive and awesome to me going back over a decade.

Halloween gravestone reading “I Did My Own Research” in a yard with two skeleton arms sticking out of the grass.

Happy Halloween

Also: look at those hits lmaoooo

Since May 1st, including the playoffs, the Blue Jays have the highest wOBA in baseball and it's not particularly close.

A note to Canadian parents: It’s Game 6 on Friday, so Halloween is over at 7:30 pm this year.

If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.

In MLB history, 334 hitters have come to the plate 60+ times in a playoff run.

Of that group, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s 2025 ranks second by wRC+ (248) behind only Barry Bonds in 2002.

With that ninth-inning knock, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. now has the second-most hits in a single playoff run (26), and it looks like we're going to play at least two more games...

I’m in Italy for a conference. But what I’ll remember is watching this World Series game from my hotel room.

This team breaks people’s brains.

Blue Jays’ World Series Game 1 Victory Is a Win for an Old-School Approach Toronto’s pesky at-bats in the 11–4 win over the Dodgers went against the grain and accomplished a feat not seen in the World Series since 1978.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
Blue Jays’ World Series Game 1 Victory Is a Win for an Old-School Approach

By Tom Verducci

https://www.si.com/mlb/blue-jays-world-series-game-1-win-old-school-approach

Game 1 World Series hero Addison Barger slept on Davis Schneider's pull-out couch last night. You can't make this stuff up.

MOST RUNS SCORED BY A TEAM IN ONE INNING IN A WORLD SERIES IN 57 YEARS!

YouTube video by Anthony Gonzalez NBA Basketball on NBC Sports intro Houston at OKC

As a 40 something year old, this is crazy nostalgic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=86WZ...

Last night was the most-watched Blue Jays game Sportsnet has ever had via @SportsnetPR:
•An average of 6 million Canadians watched
•An average of 1.9 million watched Blue Jays Central pre-game
• Max audience of 8.3 million when Jeff Hoffman struck out Julio to end the game

One of my favourite things about baseball is if you hit a huge home run, you have to first run between the members of the dejected other team while you’re celebrating. What other sports celebration is like that?

Of course, the Blue Jays are in the World Series for the first time since I was a kid, and I’ll be working in Europe.

Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis

While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought.

cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp...

Love the NY reference.

I’m super excited that Rush are getting back together.

Starting Tuesday, Yankees and Red Sox will play at Yankee Stadium for the right to travel to Toronto and play the Blue Jays in the ALDS next weekend.

Blue Jays have never played Yankees or Red Sox in the playoffs before. That’ll change starting Saturday.

Canadians are taking a big step back from the U.S. — and here's the data to prove it | CBC News In the weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a trade war with his punishing tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada’s "old relationship" with the U.S. would be "over" soon — and now ...

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It’s difficult to come to terms with the absurdity of what’s going on right now.