Richard Adams

There’s a long story to this and it’s not a good one. (I like the congestion charge but it’s only temporary.)

Actual Arsenal metrics

I was at a hotel recently that had a cutout in the glass shower pane so you could reach in and turn it on without being in the shower proper. It felt like the first real societal progress in decades.

But I also need to go to work so let’s wrap this up please.

Great to get up at 6am and watch live baseball, please stop
complaining.

And US sports teams.

Skip NYT’s Connections today unless you are familiar with a certain type of US confectionary.

any of them (except maybe not Mitch Keller) tbh

The NYT Spelling Bee game rejects an otherwise valid Old English vulgar expression for ‘nonsense’

Very disappointing by the NYT Spelling Bee here

Photo of interior the V&A Storehouse in Stratford, east London, showing several floors of exhibits.

The whole V&A storehouse has a “final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark” vibe, of massive amounts of stuff randomly displayed.

On a visit to the fabulous V&A Storehouse in east London, saw this technological marvel from 1980 - France’s Minitel, a precursor to the internet and way ahead of its time.

Love this advice from the NYT about staying safe if your hotel catches fire: “When you check in, ask the front desk if the fire alarms are functioning”.

Totally normal question.

Sammy Basallo! We’re so back, baby.

Congratulations!
Please can the London Series come back, with the Orioles playing whoever.

I can understand why you might give up at Ashburton but there’s lots of good stuff further south.

The NYT stupid Wordle Bot - which cheats - is very stupid. And this is a picture of it failing to find the right answer in 6 attempts.

eat my shorts Wordle Bot

That’s the hardest one I’ve seen.

Connections
Puzzle #752
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Oof that was harder than usual.

Congratulations to the approximately 90 readers who thought the New York Times would ever have TURDS as a Wordle answer

pathetic boasting about Wordle results

98 skill 🥳

It’s like the old joke about economists saying “Sure, this works in practice but does it work in theory?”

That’s what I thought when I saw this advice for Samuel Basallo:

Unlike their namesake team, Baltimore orioles are soaring in Cromwell Valley This is the time of year for Baltimore’s birds – those pint-sized songsters whose bold tangerine sets off beautifully against the green trees.

Some birds like the burbs. The Baltimore oriole is one of them. You have many opportunities to see this tangerine songster. Cromwell Valley in #Baltimore is one of the best. And unlike the O's, they do not disappoint.

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Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast

NYT graphic / artwork by Alvaro Dominguez

A synonym for cinnamon is harder than you think.

(naturally the box has several holes bashed in it)