Chad Orzel

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

The New York Times really needs to stop adding new crossword variants that I have to scroll past to get to the Wordle.

Overturned ball/strike calls so far:
Fielders → 160 (55% success)
Hitters → 119 (49% success)

All of the pitches on the left turned into strikes.
All of the pitches on the right turned into balls.

I'm probably heading up to Brookhaven, maybe hit Tree House in Saratoga on the way back.

Me: I'm kind of worn down, maybe this weekend I'll just hang out at home and not ski umpteen miles
[looks at the news]
Me: On second thought...

I do not avoid Ivy League Professors, Mandrake. But I deny them my essays.

The replacement for the Wonderlich intelligence test just dropped

On Slop How can you tell when the Words came out of the Bag, rather than from a human brain?

Like everyone else in higher ed, I worry about my ability to distinguish LLM sludge from artisanal human-written sludge: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

the funniest thing about this poll is that white britons apparently hate every single political party

The photo with this has me picturing the negotiation ending with an anvil falling on the CEO of the company with the losing bid.

Kellis Robinett @KellisRobinett Here's a look at the team-themed food items that will be available at the Big 12 Tournament • Arizona - Arizona Wildcat Mini Chicken Chimichangas • Arizona State - Sparky's Smoked Boneless Wings • Baylor - Baylor Brisket Sliders • BYU - Cosmo Churros • UCF - UCF Citronaut Drink • Cincinnati - Cincy Cheese Coney • Colorado - Boulder Green Chile Nachos • Houston - Houston Shasta's Brisket Tacos • lowa State - ISU Green Chili Pork Walking Taco • Kansas - KU's Big Jay Loaded Mac and Cheese • Kansas State - K-State Powercat Steak Tacos • Oklahoma State - OSU Orange Power Pizza • TCU - TCU Cowtown Loaded Tots • Texas Tech - the Matador Melt • Utah - Utah Majerus Special • West Virginia - West Virginia Mountaineer Pepperoni Roll 2:36 PM • 2/26/26 • 741 Views

The Big XII food items available at the Big XII Basketball Tournament.

I’m scared to know what the Majerus Special is

Part of what is great about college for a lot of people (and I know this is not something everybody wants to do or is able to do) is that not every class you take is taken for your major, or because it’s a requirement.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I can't be the only one who is made /uncomfortable/ by the way that razor clams burrow into sand, right?

The final moments of this video by Kate Crump on the Oregon coastline are sort of the crowning glory of horror. 😬

But how does this even work?
Let's talk about bivalve mobility (if we must).

Oh, is there a politcsball happening tonight? 🙄

I think if you had an entire institution focused on it (like a legit university that only did remote, not university of Phoenix) and took it really seriously could probably minimize the difference between it and in person, but yeah that’s just not the case most of the time.

a photo of an australian shepherd with unique coloring. his snout and forehead are brown and tan, but the rest of his head and chest are white. he has one light ear and one dark one. he’s standing on a bright green patch of grass and facing the camera. his brown tail tipped with white is a puffy blur behind him.

This is Milow. He knows beauty comes from the inside, but he also happens to have it on the outside. 14/10 rare as h*ck (IG: aussiemilow_)

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

One of the many small irritations of the rise of direct-to-camera vertical video as a mode is that so many are shot with the video mirrored, so I'm distracted by "What does that shirt say?" and "Is that a British car?" and miss whatever the actual point was supposed to be.

Wemby didn't have a good shooting night, but when you look at the highlights you can see how much of an impact he made on the defensive end

The Most Likely Ways We Would Have Died in the Winter Olympics If we, two normal-style people, were to compete in the Winter Olympics, we would immediately die. Here’s how: Cross-Country Skiing 10K: We struggle...

"Ski Mountaineering: High up in the majestic Dolomites, our throat is ripped out by a Eurasian Eagle-Owl."

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America's Pastimes: Baseball, and clogging your coronary arteries.

It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power.

That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.

how can you not be romantic about baseball?

They're going to denounce snowplows as Woke and officially ban them from DC, and it won't make the slightest difference to the streets of the District.

Marty Supreme Surprisingly fun for a movie about a guy who sucks

For the morning crowd: I watched one of this year's Big Awards Movies and have Thoughts about why it doesn't quite stick the landing. Spoilers abound. chadorzel.substack.com/p/marty-supr...

Few phrases prompt more despair in parents of school-age children than "Schools will operate on a two-hour delay."

Marty Supreme Surprisingly fun for a movie about a guy who sucks

The Pip specifically requested MARTY SUPREME for Movie Night last night, and I have Thoughts that include massive spoilers for the movie so be warned before you click: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

In front of a trompe l'oeil painting of an anechoic chamber, for some reason...

I did not actually watch the closing ceremony, but this is a dead on description of all the ones I HAVE seen...