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🔗 Player Unions want to ban "Unders

My 18 y/o says that almost every guy at his school is into sports betting. I remember the NFL fantasy leagues of the 2010's — and it was a gateway drug to today's situation. Mainstream gambling is putting the mob out of business, and it's cheapening the souls of a generation. And pro athletes shouldn't be subject to threats from gambling addicts - at least not to any larger extent than they have been for a century or more.

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🔗 Alcaraz won't play at French 2026

Devastating turn of events for the tournament.

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🔗 “I love the em dash”

I also love the em dash. It’s been a part of my personal style for decades—I don’t know where I picked up the habit—maybe Joyce? Dickinson? I believe em dashes can stand in for any other mark. I used to know the unicode shortcut to correctly render an em dash, and I also knew the difference between an “en” and an “em.”

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Recent Writing

Now

This is my Now page. What's a Now page? The quick things one would tell a close friend not seen in awhile.

At home

  • Thankful for the help of my parents in law for helping to complete some projects in our front yard.
  • Finding a good balance of house work, creative work, restorative work. btw, what is "restorative work?" Reading, writing, piano note reading practice,

At school

  • Sorting out the HEBISD Suzuki Strings 25th-anniversary logistics and practice-a-thon system.
  • Starting a post with the PTA, to begin next school year.
  • Wrapping up Suzuki lessons for the year. Figuring out how to keep practice rolling into the summer.

Computers

Web stuff

  • Added comments to my site. Which feels fun again.
  • Finalizing the look of my site and its various sections.
  • Updating my posting endpoint to be more useful.

Media

Playing

  • Grinding job classes post-Earth Crystal in Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster on the Switch.

Listening

  • Re-visiting the Radiohead catalog and figuring out each guitarist's role and signature.

  • Beatles — Red & Blue albums, 2023 editions Did you know that the original versions of these records didn't include a single Harrisong?

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Recent Notes

Dear NBA and MLB and every other pro sports league: You are going to begin to lose families as viewers if you can't reign in the sheer overwhelming quantity of SPORTS BETTING advertisements in your content. It is getting ridiculous and out of hand. They are trying to hook the next generation on gambling, and you are all complicit. I want to help my kids appreciate sport - but not gambling.

Finally: successfully leverage all the chatbot friends, and an entire year's worth of tinkering experience to get MEH commenting up and running on my site. Leave me a note!

Rangers are a .500 team so far this year. Which ain't bad. Been listening to quite a few of the games on the radio.