Greg Olsen

Braised chicken with dried Mediterranean fruits and olives, roasted potatoes and steamed asparagus for dinner

Who does this branding?

Josh Law, hero. God bless that young man. apnews.com/article/coas...

There aren't enough cat pictures and videos today to offset all the negativity on BlueSky.

Clementine decided to, “Halp momb wif de londrie.” For some value of help.

I sorted mail in the mailroom, burst stacks of printer paper reports (suspected check kiter activity and such), and delivered mail with a tin pushcart at World Savings.

I am at the *-final-final-final.docx stage of editing a journal submission 🤦‍♂️. I think my definition of "done" needs redefinition.🙄

The more I think about it, the more I have come to believe that the structure of the international system is currently 1 + 1 + 1, where the United States is a declining superpower, China is an aspiring superpower, and Russia is not a superpower, but the lone other great power in the system.

I turned on the heat today. Fall is now officially here. The lateness may be due to El Niño.

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Great comedy movie, but like so many 70s comedies, it will get you cancelled in the 21st century for the ethnic humor.

Make a war film rubbish. The Bedford Indecent

Another San Francisco Fleet Week in the books. Thursday air show practice day was a good day, Friday was foggy, Saturday was really hard holding position as a target boat for the air show on the bay in a small craft advisory, but today was awesome, clear skies and calm-ish seas.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I didn't think the GenAI bubble would result in a financial crisis, just a run-of-the-mill tech bubble. I may be wrong about that.

We are saddened to say goodbye to our dear friend, Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint. One of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, we’ll forever be grateful for unforgettable contributions to cinema, her generosity and her humor. Our thoughts are with her loved ones.

Cold War 2 is shaping up to look more and more like the second half of Cold War 1 where the US Navy looks to high-low mixes of systems because quantity has a quality all its own. news.usni.org/2026/10/07/s...

They Were Expendable militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-r...

Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/

What people think and what I mean when I say that I study civil war.

I can so relate to the sentiments expressed in this article. The difference between the haves and have nots even in the “Power 2” conferences has never been greater in the transfer portal era. www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

I needed to pull an exact quote and I revisited Kissinger's @foreignaffairs.com article, "The Viet Nam Negotiations" (1969). Its clarity as to the strategic failures of US intervention to-date were remarkable.

You know Internet ensh*ttification has ruined sports media when reporters covering teams have to put out “Watch Guide” articles at the beginning of the season, so that you know where to find games.

@ellecordova.bsky.social was on 🔥 with her Youtube short today. youtube.com/shorts/y3VDF...

Watership down warped the elder GenXers, when their parents were like, “Animated movie with bunnies,” and took their kids to go see it.

Not a 9th inning guy in my book. Should at best be you Mike Jackson style 8th in setup man.

It was super hot on our hike today (39 degrees C) but we did come across these two young deer that didn’t mind the heat.

I had fun watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers with the rest of the #BMovieManiacs crew. I hadn’t seen it in 20+ years and the wife had never seen it.

I don’t know. If you searched Raja Patel in the Cisco directory there were over a hundred back in the day.

I'm four episodes into the new Paramount+ TV show Sheriff Country, and the plot arc is so preposterous that it should have been done as a situation comedy.

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

Finally one that I already have in my DVD collection!

I made sautéed salmon, bulgur wheat pilaf, and steamed broccoli for a quick mid-week meal.

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

Tangerine violates Clementine’s space during her bath.

In REAR WINDOW (1954) the songwriter - seen here with Hitchcock doing his cameo thang - is played by Ross Bagdasarian, an accomplished singer and songwriter in his own right, who under his stage name David Seville would go on to create ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’.

Of that NYT piece on the top 100 shows, I have seen at least a single episode of only 12 shows and only 3 did I actually complete the series.

Preach!

Not demon. Cryptid.

Ditto

Silicon Valley in the age of Big AI is kinda like a much dumber Los Alamos in the Manhattan Project era, except with zero disapproving normie government oversight. Also, they’re not building a nuclear bomb in the midst of a nightmare world war, they’re building a chatbot.

Look, this is by design. Great powers jealously guard their freedom of action. It isn’t necessarily legitimate, but the great powers claim that they have special rights and responsibilities.

A snek in the house is not cool. My wife came with a pet snek and a friend of Daughter 1 let it out of the cage. Thank G-d I found it 2 days later b4 the cat. Carly might have “made it ded” use ca’at speak.

This wine is amazing. I just wish I could still get it but the store that carried it in my area went out of business.

I have just about reached my limit with Fosi Audio. Their compact CD player I had purchased has problems controlling the volume. Their tech support has been entirely via email. The firmware update instructions don't work. I think I need to return it. Hopefully I can get my money back.

we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny

Season and mood go together. I have noticed that I only read crime novels and watch reruns of Perry Mason when the days get short. Only during fall and winter do I care to read and watch dramatizations of depravity.

To me Wilkinson is more Kirk Rueter. Rueter was a winner with limited stuff.