Yes, the solar eclipse is going to be awesome. No, it’s not a 375 year wait for the next one. And, it’s not going to last for 3 days or hours.

It was just snowing a few days ago. 🤷‍♂️

Fun fact! …….

My new primary care doctor began high school in 2006.

Is this what being old feels like?

I just ran some bits of the Dhammapada through a supposed AI text detector.

I can now confirm that they had ChatGPT in the Indian sub-continent in the 3rd century BCE. 🙄

Flight delay made it that we didn’t get to the house until 2am 🥱😴

Uh oh

Happy “I’m not eight years old, shut up” day to everyone celebrating a birthday today!

Severe Thunderstorm Watch

Incoming!

First chance of some spring-like storms for the year. Maybe I’ll make a video about it 😁

Anyone that can see this post, what are your thoughts on the idea of a post-labor economy?

Basic idea: artificial intelligence and robotics advance to such a state where intellectual and physical labor is almost completely taken over by AI powered machines.

If this is the first time you’ve heard of this concept, what are your thoughts? Intrigued? Worried?

If you have considered this, what are your thoughts on how to move forward?

That was an intense 5 quarters of football.

Yes, Michigan can get thunderstorms in February. A lovely evening for a light show.

Magical

I’ve seen a lot of misunderstandings of what downing a punt really is in football.

I want to go back to the first half.

Great start! 🦁🏈

A fascinating look at NES Tetris, the kid that recently “beat” it for the first time, and everything that went into it.

https://youtu.be/T2-9wvKD1z4

Clutch interception.

Lions to the NFC championship!

17 - 17 at the start of the 4th.

😬

My Lions game just went black 😲 😭

49ers and Packers, reminds me of some great games from the 90s.

Looks like it’s the Buccaneers are coming to Detroit next week.

I don’t care what your calculator says, 230 - 220 × 0.5 = 5!

🤣

2 minute warning, up by 1. 🦁😰

First home playoff game since 1993. Haven’t won a playoff game since 1991.

Let’s go Lions!

I made another video! Here I highlight some of the key moments that were responsible for the formation of the various codes of football found around the world.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this 🤣

Not a good start to the New Year in Japan. Major earthquake on the first, and then a runway collision at an airport resulting in the death of 4 Japanese Coast Guard members getting ready to deliver aid to the earthquake impacted region.

My old Beginner’s Guide to Canadian Football, now updated.

There is a small, but not zero, chance that the Lions could take the #1 seed - first week playoff bye and home field all the way through.

1. The Lions need to win these last two games of the season (Cowboys, Vikings)

2. The 49ers need to lose one of their final games (Commanders, Rams)

Who gets sick on Christmas!

Ura!

Rocket gets in on the action.

I have updated my old beginner’s guide to football video.

The onside punt video from the CFL has been making the rounds. I quickly explain the rule involved and how the loophole is used.

42-0 at halftime is … 😬

He’s snoring.

I saw someone in Reddit ask what it must’ve been like to play these classic RPGs when they released. I thus ramble with only the slightest of coherence about how awesome it was.

I’ve also included their original release commercials.

And the Packers down Kansas City. Wild day.

Wow… the 49ers really did a number on the Eagles 😲

Lions game was a lot closer than it had any business being, considering the opening 7 minutes. A win is a win.

Now on to the 49ers.

21-0 and the first quarter isn’t even halfway over 😲

A follow up video I had made about the fair catch free kick. I quickly discussed why it was an important aspect of early football. I also bring up a long ago feature of football that directly tied into the free kick: the puntout.

Why do Vulcans make poor comedians?

Because each time they tell a joke, the logic of the punchline is so self-evident that laughter is an illogical response.

😀

I talk about the rare free kick in American football and how you could’ve scored off of the safety kick and the kickoff back in the day.

I’ve been doing videos on YouTube, but Facebook doesn’t like it when you share external links. So now I’m also uploading them to Facebook.

The Lions put someone awful in my blue Kool Aid today.

Wild ending for the Lions.

I am listening to Patrick Stewart’s memoir on audiobook and it is amazing so far.

Huh… in Wisconsin in the 1940s the high school football rules allowed a field goal to be scored from a kickoff. 🤯

“World” champions

Butch Vig, drummer for Garbage, heart reacted to a comment of mine. It’s a lame claim to fame, but it can’t be taken away from me!

Some random: you can’t like more than one team

Me: I like the Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, then the rest of the NFC North: Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings, and Green Bay Packers, in that order.

Close encounters. Remember friends, don’t pet the murder horse.

Did the 49ers forget how to tackle?

Lions playing like the 49ers did last week.

Lions @ Ravens - let’s not give up the longest field goal in history again!

Keith Olbermann discussing the creation of ESPN2 is cracking me up. Management never changes 😆

49ers vs Cowboys takes me back to those big games back in the day.

Now THAT is an interception!

I’m ready to receive my government instructions within the hour. As part of the new world order, I am ready to be installed as the feudal King of my local area. Thank you to the secret 5G nanobots in my phone.

So the Jets look to have a little life in them suddenly.

I am feeling a sort of way about these Lions. Is this what good feels like?

So… Lions to take the NFC North?

Watching people freak out over the emergency alert test for phones coming up is both hilarious, giving me a lot of entertainment, and absolutely terrifying, because these people live along us!

Oooh, 49ers touchdown dropped with precision.

😆

Reason number 92038475 that the NFL needs to chance their overtime rules.

The 49ers are just demolishing the Steelers morale.

Well, one thing I do miss about being on the West Coast is the time football games came on. The early games were 10am and the latter ones at 1pm. Night games around 5pm. That was nice.

Day 1 of the September sumo tournament begins in 10 minutes!

The silver and blue get to celebrate in slow motion while triumphant music play… in Kansas City. I fear I have the vapors!

Is this really a week 1 Lions game?

I love the “everyone but the center” penalty.

Lions need to keep up this energy.

Mmm… that pick-6.

If there is nothing else, the Lions scored on the Chiefs first.

11 years ago was my first time sending a kid off to their first day of school.

Key messages for Idalia

1. There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along portions of the Florida Gulf Coast where a Storm Surge Warning is in effect, including Tampa Bay and the Big Bend region of Florida. Inundation of 8 to 12 feet above ground level is expected somewhere between Chassahowitzka and Aucilla River. Residents in these areas should follow any advice given by local officials.

2. Hurricane conditions are expected within portions of the Hurricane Warning area along the Florida Gulf Coast, with the potential for destructive winds where the core of Idalia moves onshore. Strong winds will also spread inland across portions of northern Florida near the track of the center of Idalia.

3. Areas of flash and urban flooding, some of which may be locally significant, are expected across portions of the west coast of Florida, the Florida Panhandle, and southern Georgia Tuesday into Wednesday, spreading into portions of the eastern Carolinas Wednesday into Thursday.

4. Hurricane-force winds are expected across portions of far western Cuba tonight. Heavy rainfall is also expected across portions of western Cuba and may produce areas of flash and urban flooding as well as landslides.

Today we took Isabelle to her University. She’s off to learn the ways of psychology.

The NWS is headed out to do damage surveys.

I’ll be curious to see reports tomorrow. That storm had a vibe to it. I can’t think of any other way to describe it.

We are now under a TORNADO WARNING

712
WFUS53 KGRR 250022
TORGRR
MIC081-250045-
/O.NEW.KGRR.TO.W.0004.230825T0022Z-230825T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
822 PM EDT THU AUG 24 2023

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A

• TORNADO WARNING FOR…
  CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN…

• UNTIL 845 PM EDT.

• AT 821 PM EDT, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR GRAND RAPIDS, MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD…TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT…FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
  SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
  DAMAGE TO ROOFS, WINDOWS, AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
  DAMAGE IS LIKELY.

• THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR…
  GRAND RAPIDS, KENTWOOD, EAST GRAND RAPIDS, AND ROCKFORD AROUND 825
  PM EDT.
  GERALD R. FORD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AROUND 830 PM EDT.
  LOWELL AROUND 835 PM EDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS, IN A
MOBILE HOME, OR IN A VEHICLE, MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

It’s so humid outside that my sunglasses began to fog over. 🥵😆

From the National Hurricane Center

Preparations for flooding impacts should be completed as soon as possible, as heavy rainfall will begin well in advance of the center. In the Southwestern U.S., the potentially historic amount of rainfall is expected to cause flash, urban, and arroyo flooding including landslides, mudslides, and debris flows. Dangerous to locally catastrophic flooding impacts are expected late tonight through early Monday.

It is 72° outside and I can see my breath. Never had that before. The humidity must be 99.999%

… … to everyone who wrote “stay cool” in my yearbook… I have some devastating news.

Well, the downside of being on the east coast… can’t see the top division matches live. I’ll have to watch the replays in the morning.

The Grand Sumo tournament begins today.

😀

Got into the house just a few seconds before a pretty decent thunderstorm unleashed. Love living back in Michigan.

850 more miles to go!

10 hours down, 24 more hours to go.

2200 miles to go.

Let the adventure begin!

I just introduced Ryker to Three Little Pigs by Green Jellÿ.

He was greatly amused, if just a bit confused 😆

Isabelle’s graduation is beginning soon. Her high school is streaming it live here: https://www.youtube.com/live/LX7SrBMflkE?feature=share

Day 11 of 15 of this sumo tournament. The next tournament will be when I’m in Michigan and will never be able to catch it live due to the time difference. 😭