TK Focht (John Focht)

My theory about the Ocarina of Time remake is gonna be that you’re gonna get The Downfall Timeline Is Real So Shut Up

Today I put in a long day at the baseball stats factory, writing an article that included the initialism "BLTR". Cracked open my mailbox, saw the paper of record had come, and was scandalized to find the following

Accidentally typing “git innit” like I’m discussing my versioning tool selection with my terminal window

In fairness when I was graduating from HS and a recruiter asked me if I had a better plan than the military I said I was attending MIT and he said “yeah that’s a better plan” and that was that

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Realizing that Heated Rivalry has wrought upon my brain the Game of Thrones problem: The name of an individual volume is now more well known than the book series title and my brain will be forever rebelling against using the individual title for the series even if it makes communication clearer.

Trying to annoy my brother, who is insisting that the NFL on Fox theme is a Thanksgiving song, by singing Sleigh Ride’s “giddyup giddyup giddyup let’s go” bridge over the NFL main hook.

THE DODGERS STARTING PITCHER TONIGHT THREW 6 SCORELESS INNINGS AND STRUCK OUT 10 BATTERS AND DID THIS

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

If you’re here because you saw the repeat on TV today, here is the update on me: my hands are quite good now (feet are not there but better too), and the problem now is heat not cold, but overall recovery is very good. Just had my one year post treatment follow up and my scans and blood are clean.

This video from Senator Padilla's staff, shared to Twitter by Fox LA's Elex Michaelson, shows Padilla forced to the ground by men wearing FBI uniforms who then handcuff him behind his back. This is after he is forcibly removed from the Noem press conference for asking a question.

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

Tag yourself I’m “they” #jeopardy

I had my 6mo follow up with my oncologist this week and he was amazed that I could play Jeopardy! at all let alone feel as good playing as in 2020-22. You can see how good that was today!

The mystery of why California HSR costs so much and is taking so long is not really a mystery 1) The easiest parts to build aren't at the largest population centers at the ends 2) It needs a lot of land which is expensive 3) It crosses mountains and seismic areas 4) It's never been funded enough

Got so in my head on recruitment tasks today that I forgot I had other tech documentation open, saw this in a tab and started wondering if I had blacked out and put in a request for "legendary" developers.

My team at the Dodgers is hiring! We have positions in data engineering and research engineering. www.linkedin.com/posts/los-an...

How I thought about my ability to return to Jeopardy for the Invitational Tournament open.substack.com/pub/jometry/...

Some positive personal recoveries: I made it from LA to Boston and back without physical difficulties. The cold in Boston didn't provoke neural pain. I've put on shirts with buttons the last three days and had no trouble with my fingers beyond how annoying cuff buttons are generally.

J: I’m going to go do the dishes. Or I could do them tomorrow. Nah, I’ll do them now. Me: Yesterday you said you’d call Sears. J: YAAAAAAAAAAA

Blue skies directly overhead now, but brown and orange to the west and southwest. The light has been like a permanent sunset all day. Light ash falling.

Dear future self: When your parents offer you the humidifier when you visit, just take it. Don’t wait and see if you “really” need it. Just take it. PS: Take yours with you to Phoenix and Vegas, too.

When the website updates are flowing, that means I’ve been doing a bunch of typing. And that must mean my hands are doing a whole lot better even if I didn’t notice it along the way.

Lying on the floor of a stadium pondering the dimensionality of metrics

It’s disappointing to wake up early on the East Coast and discover the internet hasn’t loaded yet for the day.

El Paso: Pronouncing Spanish except when you don’t Los Angeles: Not pronouncing Spanish except when you do

If there is any one photo that could sum up the highs and lows of 2024, it must be holding the World Series trophy with chemo gloves.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Hieronymus Bosch, 1500-1510, 📸 via @UnfortunateMLB

Check the ball on this confusing home run tonight streamable.com/9b48nr

The drug regimen is OVER

While I’ve been on chemo, I’ve also been scoring myself on America’s favorite trivia game show and finding patterns and comparisons. Now that the season is done (and my chemo is nine hours from done), here’s the result. open.substack.com/pub/jometry/...

No more infusions to do. Rang that bell.

This has actually been noticeable in my real life in California. We’ve still got grid problems with respect to wildfire, but the handling of high demand is much better and more seamless to the public than when I moved here a decade ago.

After a week’s delay for my liver possibly going and then recovering from crazy, I have gotten my seventh infusion. One more to go in three weeks. Including pills, five weeks of cancer drugs remaining.

June: be gay do crime July: be president do crime

If you think that being a supervisor guiding entry level employees through a job, giving them feedback while learning about their strengths and goals and how to place them in a team in a way that lets them shine is as “soul sucking” as revising generated prompts, you’re a stupid person, I’m sorry.

This cycle’s oncologist appointment covered how I’m doing physically, but we spent a lot more time on maintaining my mental health and maintaining my husband’s mental health (and he wasn’t even there).

As my pill tracker tips from week 17 to 18, I realize that with 23 weeks of drugs my chemo is the length of the NFL season and postseason. And we’re about to make the playoffs. (I guess the surgery was the preseason? Or maybe the medical oncology appointments.)

Six injections done. Two to go. Eight more weeks of drugs. Getting there.