Month: May 2023

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MLB to produce, distribute Padres games starting today

The shoe (guillotine?) has finally dropped on the exceedingly unstable relationship between the bankrupt Bally’s Sports/Sinclair Broadcast Group and Major League Baseball: MLB to produce, distribute Padres games starting today

As an MLB.tv subscriber and Braves fan, this whole Bally-hoo has of course had me generally interested in what will happen with all this. Pleasantly surprised (and interested in the legal/contractural details) that MLB was able to keep the Padres’ announcing crew for the new broadcasts. (via Six Colors)

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Using Arc as dedicated separate video browser

Trying out Arc as a dedicated browser just for video. I tried Arc out a while ago and bounced off pretty quickly, but it has good picture-in-picture support and I like having that stuff separated. Putting it a different app and on a different monitor than my main browser keeps it out of the way and also makes app switching/window management cleaner. We’ll see how it goes.

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Braves at Rangers in Arlington

Braves in town versus Rangers. Chance to see Spencer Strider and Ronald Acuna Jr. in person.

Ronald Acuna Jr.Ronald Acuna Jr.
Ronald Acuna Jr.Ronald Acuna Jr.
Spencer StriderSpencer Strider
Matt OlsonMatt Olson
Ozzie AlbiesOzzie Albies
Ronald Acuna after home runRonald Acuna Jr.

Left the family at home. Much more reasonable to but good midweek tickets when you’re only buying one. Ha.

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The Lightning Thief (by Rick Riordan) – ★★★★

Percy Jackson 1 - The Lightning Thief

Rated this maybe a 2.5-star after my initial listen on Audible, but enjoyed it quite a bit more on this reread with the actual paperback.

My oldest kid is very into the entire Rick Riordan catalog but surprisingly never read the Percy Jackson books so I read this to her a little bit at a time at bedtime. (Seriously there’s more than 20 Riordan books and she’s read almost all of them except this main series for some reason.) Not sure if it was the audiobook’s fault or just the extra joy of reading with my kid but I found both the story and Riordan’s writing itself much more engrossing this time.

? View my Goodreads review
? Buy The Lightning Thief on Amazon

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24 hours left

I am a little over 24 hours from being able to punt the client MacBook that is constantly a baffling and frustrating complete disaster to use into the FRIGGIN’ SEA.

Kick this computer into the sea animated gif

(I am an approximately 6 hours from anything resembling a sea, the commute will be worth it.)

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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is here

Image of my desk as I work and must wait for the end of the day before I can play Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

Ready and waiting. Now have to work and sit in meetings for next 8 hours while Zelda:TotK stares at me.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi = John Smith?

So is the name “Kenobi” like Smith in their galaxy? Or is Luke just a dolt?

“Obi-Wan Kenobi so weird I know a guy named Ben Kenobi oh well this soup is good.”

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TMNT Splintered Fate for Apple Arcade looks great

Great looking TMNT rogue-lite with multiplayer called TMNT Splintered Fate (“splintered”, get it get it?) hit Apple Arcade today (as well as some other good looking stuff) and it looks great. No clue if it’s actually any good but most of the Ninja Turtle stuff (games and otherwise) has been pretty high quality and so is a lot of Apple Arcade releases so fingers crossed. At the very least it’s not free to play.

Need to go find my 8BitDo controller and try it out on my iPad.