“[Best friend] is a baby who poops on herself.” — my now-3-year-old, who pooped on herself last week
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Noah Frank
Профиль VivelyWriter. Days doing comms at Virginia Tech, evenings teaching at Loyola Maryland. Musing on baseball and other maddening pastimes. https://pretty-good.ghost.io noahafrank.com
Tired: Counting down to SpaceX’s first lockup date Wired: Counting down to SpaceX accidentally smashing a rocket into the surface of the moon apnews.com/article/spac...
A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moonA SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers last year.apnews.comIt’s a little crazy-making for me personally that the very questionable claims about data center job and economic growth are so similar to those about sports stadiums
MicahI mean this is fundamentally one of the big reasons why data centers have no local constituency: they don’t actually create a lot of jobs they’ll employ some folks during construction but the actual day to day operation of a data center really doesn’t need many people, especially given its size
As we’ve seen in Ukraine, drones have completely upended the dynamics of asymmetric warfare
Carl QuintanillaNYT: The Iranians, “who asked not to be named to discuss security matters, said the explosion was a drone attack designed to show that global shipping and energy supplies could be more deeply disrupted if Iran chose to escalate.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/w...
Based on the looks she gives me, I assume this is what my wife hears whenever I start talking about my latest group ride
Will Code For PizzaFrom when Paul the Trombonist accidentally texted his wife with voice transcription on while practicing:
As Dave notes, this is very bad. If you’d like to know more about data centers and resource management from someone who actually studies this stuff for a living, may I humbly suggest this, instead news.vt.edu/articles/202...
There's a power/water trade-off in data center resource allocationLandon Marston, who studies sustainable water resources management, is in the middle of the growing challenge of power and water resource allocation for data centers.news.vt.eduDave KarpfI'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
All you have to do is look at the contracts given out last offseason to figure out which ones
ric sanchez“there are owners that believe there won’t be a single game next season”
But please, keep telling people there isn’t an affordability crisis
John Gramlich"Buying food to eat at home has gotten 33% more expensive in U.S. cities since the beginning of 2019, according to government figures. In the 7.5 years before that, prices rose 6.4%." (via @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/groc...
I watched @cespedesbbq.bsky.social do this for a ceremonial first pitch five years ago (4-minute mark of the video at the bottom of the article) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Parallel Lines: Bikes, BBQ, & Baseball | Baseball ProspectusA ride with Jake Mintz of Cespedes Family BBQ, who is biking from New York to Chicago to make, and do, good.www.baseballprospectus.comCodify BaseballKerry Wood, Behind-The-Back Eephus 😮