Speaking of sports, Jomboy’s breakdown of the Ramirez-Anderson fight is a masterpiece.
Pacific Athletic Conference, a post-mortem
Pac-12’s demise is story of 12 years of hubris, apathy, astounding mismanagement
There will presumably be many eulogies written about the demise of the West Coast’s beloved, century-old Conference of Champions, a league that produced the likes of Bill Walton, Marcus Allen, Aaron Rodgers and Alex Morgan.
This is not that story.
This is the story of how 12 years of hubris, apathy and astounding mismanagement turned a once-shining mansion into a smoldering vat of ashes, with Oregon and Washington now following UCLA and USC to the Big Ten and Utah, Arizona and Arizona State set to join Colorado in the Big 12.
I’m late to comment, but this article is wild. Not to missed, is the coverage in the Wall Street Journal on George Kliavkoff’s multiple dumpster fire’s.
My only insight is that all of this, all of this was foreseeable when they created the BCS. The need for an undisputed college national champion in football got us here. And there’s no going back, so we might as well buckle up for USC v. Ohio State every year (or nearly so) while we’re at it.
It’s so hot in Phoenix right now even the stuffed animals need to hydrate.
Don’t forget your electrolytes while you’re at it.
15 years of Omnifocus
I was on vacation and missed the news that Omnifocus is 15 years old! That means I’ve been using it for fifteen years, or very nearly so. I forget which episode it was, but I know I was listening to an episode of Mac Break Weekly in downtown Philadelphia while waiting on a train back to my apartment. Merlin Mann was raving about it and I downloaded the app on the train terminal.
As I recall, I had Omnifocus on my primary home screen before I got to my station—it has never left. Now it sits in my dock where it has been for years. The app and method has gotten me through my MA, PhD, marriage and kids, moving cross-country (several times), through big projects and small ones. Whenever I have tried something else, it never sticks and I end up back in Omnifocus. I’m sure by now it might have at least as much to do with learned habits as anything else. I’m by no means a power user of the app, but that’s fine because I never needed to be for the value of keeping tabs on things to be apparent.
I wasn’t sure if I could check when I first installed the app so I checked if the App Store would have that purchase history. Yup, turns out I downloaded OmniFocus about two weeks after it launched.
(With this information, I tried to see which episode of Mac Break Weekly Merlinn was on, but even their archives only go back to 2013.
Happy anniversary, The Omni Group.
Hiked the Mist Trail today, with the big kiddo. We got up at 4am to make it happen.
We had a slow start to the holiday.
But in the valley sun, the party doesn’t start until evening.
And so, Happy Independence Day!
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One of my students emailed to tell me he read the Declaration of Independence this morning. My work here is done. God bless, America! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
“Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.”
—Shakespeare, the Sage of Git/Github
Palacios Family Reunion, 2023
Short half-weekend in California including a stop in Joshua Tree on the way to my mom’s on Friday.
My family reunion was the main event.
And now we’re already back.
I just successfully disassembled my wall oven door and replaced the hinges. Should have taken before, during, and after photos but I was too focused on not breaking things while the kids were screaming in next room.
Nine beautiful, wonderful, grace filled years. Love you, Lucia, to the moon.
Started Reacing: The Beginning of Politics by Moshe Halbertal 📚
My tablet/smartphone native son is using his mom’s 9-yo laptop (it’s older than him) for the first time. It’s like watching a monkey try to figure out what a power tool is. It’s hilarious.
Happy Father’s Day, folks
We had the cheapest and best celebration at one of the city pools.
“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. He is not hampered by a sense of humour or by charity, or by the dumb certainties of experience. He is the more logical for losing certain sane affections. Indeed, the common phrase for insanity is in this respect a misleading one. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”
—G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Early bird gets the worm, we, donut. (Yesterday morning on a pre-7am run to Lowe’s. He was the only kid awake, so he got to run with me.)
Bookworm 📷
The kiddos love “surprising” me for my birthday.
The sign greeted me when I arrived at home as. My age is an inside joke with the kids.
Sony animators > Disney/Pixar.