Old Man

House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski Honeydew (2015) by Crystal Hana Kim

I'm inclined to give the Fins a bit of a pass after they lost five starting LBs over the previous two weeks, as well as Jaylen Waddle and Xavien Howard. And then played a playoff game in weather cold enough to shatter helmets. Otherwise I only felt bad for the Rams, who played well but just had a lot of things go wrong. And they still only lost by a point. Next week I'm inclined to root for Houston, Buffalo, and Detroit, all for the same reason--a long stretch without any Superb Owl appearances. Houston's not gonna beat Baltimore though.

For me the main justification for firing Sirianni would be the total lack of ideas or morale on the team. They made no changes on offense at all, and there's been plenty of press coverage of both the players and coaching staff having no idea how to fix it. I'm semi-watching this game, Tampa is in man coverage basically all the time and Philly has two running quarterbacks and I didn't see a single designed run. No attempt to get running backs involved in the passing game, no pre-snap motion. I'm like, dude, put in Mariota or try a wildcat or something. The whole thing reminds me of the McCarthy days in Green Bay where the coach calls endless vanilla plays and expects the players to do all the work.

Man it's like the Eagles gave up four weeks ago.

Hex grids are just square grids with every other row offset by half a square.

Eleven Minutes (2007)

Jeez, Eagles. Tampa's defense isn't even particularly good.

Xenophon's Anabasis (368 BCE) The Xylographic Treatises (1471) The X-Ray: Its Theory and Application (1896)

The Vampyre (1819) The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)

I'm not sure they should have shown the replay on the Higbee hit. Knees are not supposed to have that particular range of motion.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) Moby Dick (1851)

I doubt it, but it's still delicious to see him humiliated by his former team in the playoffs.

Wasn't gonna watch football today but Dallas is losing at the moment and that's always nice to see.

Frederik X becomes King of the Danes after Queen Margrethe self-deposes

Gulliver's Travels (1726) Grimm's Fairy Tales (1822) The Epic of Gilgamesh (1732 BCE)

As I am in Tua's hometown I'll probably listen to the game. I'd love to actually watch Football On Ice, but not enough to subscribe to yet another streaming service.

44-14 and there's still most of Q4 to play.

Happiness

Poor Flacco. He's better than this.

Zipper closing, at range NT: Things that have been photographed

I played one of those. It spoiled me with its controller design, which was capable of so much more than the Atari 8-way joystick with one button.

Apparently Mayo's heir apparent status was written into his contract years in advance. Why the Patriots would do that I don't know, but some elements of Pats fandom are not thrilled when also-former-Patriot-with-actual-head-coaching-and-playoff-experience Mike Vrabel is right there.

Hubby is wise. I'd bump the Neeners down a notch or two due to recent injury though. The Patriots have gone in house for their next HC, linebackers coach (and former player) Jerod Mayo.

sigh You'll just have to let it go.

The FAA has launched a formal investigation into the construction practices at Boeing and its subcontractors as they relate to all these recent incidents. This isn't going away any time soon. Maybe it'll force a culture change at Boeing corporate, but I doubt it.