When I was in college I worked as a student manager for the menโs basketball team. One opposing team, every year, when they left the visitors locker room they would leave all the showers on. So we had to roll up our sleeves and turn them off. Every year.
You are not forgiven, Michigan.
1987-91.
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They lost me at Almoravid Empire.
15.10.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Please excuse your Gen X colleagues who are unable to focus today
15.10.2025 13:14 โ ๐ 53 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Priceless.
15.10.2025 01:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat
A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.
A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.
Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.
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Next up for me: colonoscopy ๐ฌ ๐ค๐ป
15.10.2025 00:31 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Was listening to KOOL 108 this afternoon (donโt @ me) and I canโt swear to it but fairly certain I heard the DJ say โMilwaukeeโs Best Variety of the 80s and 90sโ
14.10.2025 23:43 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Oh yeahโฆ Iโve made plans for a few ticketed events but Iโve been mostly AWOL this year otherwise.
But itโs been a year and we have reasons and we shouldnโt be too hard on ourselves. At least thatโs what Iโm telling myself ๐
14.10.2025 23:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Yeah Iโm not privy to those details but I wouldnโt doubt it!
14.10.2025 18:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It is a subsidiary, although we have a self-funded plan and UMR is the administrator. Used to be HeslthPartners but switched to UMR several years back in a cost-cutting move.
14.10.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Yeah basically youโre just supposed to say โeverythingโs fine, no complaints.โ Here I was just informing the doc of a recent diagnosis which โฆ any responsible patient would do? Instead it got listed as the reason for the visit.
14.10.2025 17:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
UMR and HealthPartners
14.10.2025 17:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
Oof Iโm sorry. That is several orders of magnitude beyond my situation!
14.10.2025 16:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Just got off a conference call with an insurance rep and my health providerโs billing department because another preventive checkup was mistakenly billed as an office visit. Stay vigilant people!
Never had a problem either this until the past few years. Now itโs happened multiple times.
14.10.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
It was definitely a Gen Z crowd over there!
12.10.2025 14:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
(Shortly afterward I decamped for the tavern next door)
12.10.2025 03:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
When the lights came up after the show, I lingered at the back for a few minutes, apparently conspicuously, because a staffer approached me and said, โLet me guess: not your genre of music. Are you here for a kid?โ ๐
12.10.2025 02:59 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Molly Grace at the 7th Street Entry
Bob Mould, Martin Zellar and Tina Schlieske are playing in town tonight. But I volunteered to drive some teenagers home from the Laufey concert so Iโm at Molly Grace at the Entry across the street.
12.10.2025 02:07 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes
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ST: TNG didnโt become the ST: TNG we remember until Season 3
10.10.2025 21:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We watch mostly the breathless and formulaic NBC Nightly News in recent years so Iโve been unaware of the unprecedented dominance of David Muir.
10.10.2025 19:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hoursโand ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."
One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
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In college I took a sociology class which I mostly blew off. But I showed up for the final, and the TA who was handing out blue books looked at me and said, โThereโs no way you can pass this class.โ I said, โI know,โ and held out my hand. The recurring nightmare, but I lived it. Without AI.
10.10.2025 04:36 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroomโs first open-ended strike.
Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers โ 98% of members โ took part in the historic vote.
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Ah yes, famously uncool singer Johnny Cash. I am glad noted arbiter of cool the Wall Street Journal is willing to reconsider his case.
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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
David Simon, creator of โThe Wireโ, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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Proof the Internet really does benefit society.
09.10.2025 17:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Itโs three syllables for me: nickel-it.
09.10.2025 00:00 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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