Edward Alexander

Circle pit around the obelisk is what I heard

I don't why we went away from the hot-cold knob you could set before even starting the car

Doing some late night mapping. Sometimes I think they look a lot cooler before I smash a bunch of labels and troop movements on top.

Seeing it officially spelled out as Gies Memorial Stadium makes it look like it's sponsored by a hospital

Putting up the finishing touches on some Cedar Creek maps, a project made substantially harder by the usually reliable Jedediah Hotchkiss essentially putting "here by dragons" on a crucial part his otherwise outstanding maps of the Shenandoah Valley

I need to refresh myself on Immanuel Kant for the potential perfect joke, I thought to myself this afternoon, and I regret not doing so

Regarding Matt Leinart in a Big Ten commercial, if you weren't in the conference when you played you don't get grandfathered in

Big news from the Illini tailgate: Joey Chestnut puts mustard on hot dogs when eating for leisure

Illini football starting off their season tonight, a Thursday. What are we even doing here, besides prioritizing TV inventory above all else?

Can't tell if this is a Netflix glitch or an easter egg

If Illinois were to ever adopt one its rumored potential mascots, Martin Pescador would be such a good message board username

Made the mistake of going to Google for more info. AI is a scourge.

There's a thing in college sports, re: the portal, where you want a player moving up a level instead of someone who couldn't see the field at a big program and is transferring out. That feels relevant for a candidate whose name recognition is from the other elections they lost.

Oh so they're real shook. Hell yeah, union folks. Never let someone say a job is not worth a livable wage. Especially don't let anyone think they can get away with paying less "for love of the game," "you're lucky too work here" blah blah. Spent too long getting paid inadequately in a similar field.

Didn't make it one day with the new Illustrator update before I had to download an older version that doesn't run slow because it's trying to shove unwanted new AI generation functions into every step of what I'm designing

Underrated music to get your baby to sleep to: the Age of Empires soundtrack

Today's Illini haul dispels some notions I had about modern cards. All the different parallels can seem tedious but it's nice to have the orange one for school colors. Unlicensed sets can come in handy for portal transfers (and super cheap, at that).

According to the numerous letters written by veterans to the National Tribune, a dozen different Union soldiers all pulled the trigger that killed A.P. Hill.

I know why it's done and all but I'm still gonna laugh at the inclusion of this completely redacted, unnamed, noncontributing site in the Cedar Creek historic landmark form

I'm sure this one's a pleasant enough dude, but the jump scare I got when seeing this in my inbox

Absolutely despise this trend in modern cards. The 1991 design commemorating a 1998 season as part of the 2026 set. Just let things stand on their own.

Yeah that dog is blitzed Have black lab too and he'd totally do the same, took him im for an unexplainable stomach thing once and the perplexed vet eventually theorized: "is it possible that he could have licked a toad"

Turner with more confidence jumping off the bench to grab that than Freese showed all game

Why are Belgium's team colors the pink/blue swaddle they wrap babies in at the hospital

Why is it that a massive airball bounces straight off the post right back to me while a perfect swish from deep always hits the wheels at the bottom and has me chasing after it down the street right as the neighbor looks out the window from doing dishes?

It goes without fail that every time I get my Best Dad Ever coffee mug out of the cabinet I am setting myself up for innumerable conflicts that day

Being a dad's pretty cool though, spent a few hours this afternoon playing Legos

Nice addition to my collection of oddball Illini-related trading cards

Usually a player coming home is a feel good story but Herro's gotta be saying nah man, I'm of Miami now

Following the Cubs on gamecast and totally had that grand slam pegged from the moment the pixelated ball left the (not pictured) bat

If a fan ran onto the floor to buy more time to determine whether to review a call that ultimately gets overturned to the home team's advantage, do they still catch a ban?

Strongly dislike fouling just because you have one in your pocket Flashbacks to the Sweet 16 and Illinois giving three quick fouls before half against Houston only to have to be tentative for the actual play itself, an uncontested made three, not to mention three players closer to disqualification

Madden cover curse strikes again

I've bemoaned the lack of third places and never seeing the same people in different occasions. Not now, just ran into my barber. Their dog did something dumb too!

Everyone at the emergency vet is glued to Zootopia 2. Waiting rooms should never play 24hour news. Even most non-game ESPN programming is aggravating to the general vibes of a place.

Happy Lagwagon Day

Just got a brick of base cards, mostly Cubs and Illini alum, in the mail for something like 2 or 3 cents apiece. Happy sorting!

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So how did this actually work against Wemby but not in the elite eight?