Luke M. Perez

Finished reading: Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Poems by William Shakespeare 📚

Second time for the year, slower than the first one which I wrapped in late March.

I just got a solicitation text message from my local realtor who said he got my number from my mortgage company.

I can’t change who services my mortgage like I can a cable company, but I could, I would have done that before I wrote this post.

Overheard the big complaining to mommy,

“Daddy is the worst babysitter ever.”

This is a twofold win. First, my wife and I joke whether time with dad is babysitting or parenting. It’s parenting, but what husband doesn’t love the playful banter of “sure, I can babysit for you that night.”? Second, it means the kiddo knows I’m less prone to folding on screen time, but doesn’t realize I’m more like (much more likely) to fold on sweets and splurge when we’re out doing stuff.

Points when bantering with the wife, reputation for austerity even when I’m squish in other domains: an unqualified victory on all fronts.

For anyone using Drafts to publish to microblog, do you know if there is a way to assign categories or tags?

I’m unsure if I care much, as I can always go back and edit a post. But I was just thinking about it and a quick search didn’t reveal much.

We may be at a point where we need a radical departure from the standard model, one that may even require us to change how we think of the elemental components of the universe, possibly even the nature of space and time.

Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?, NYT

Proton Pass for literal* pennies on the dollar. (Via @rom)

I’m happy with 1Password, but if you don’t have a manager, there’s no better time to give it a go.

* figuratively.

Finished reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚

I just solved a four year old problem on Emacs across two computers by removing my cache and bookmarks and restarting the app. So simple, but the cache is a hidden folder so it was not immediately obvious.

Finished reading: The Eclogues of Virgil by Virgil 📚

🎥 Printer Ink, It’s a SCAM, FStoppers

Speaking of sports, Jomboy’s breakdown of the Ramirez-Anderson fight is a masterpiece.

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.