Man, 2024 decided to go hard. Saban retiring, Pete Carroll not-retiring-but-retiring. Stephen A Smith bodying the fat bastard. We’re 10 days in, there’s still an entire Olympics and election cycle to come, and we’ve got a whole year of craziness to come.
Inputs
1: Katie Nolan crushed it on the Celebrity Jeopardy semi-finals! I was shouting the Final Jeopardy answer at the screen, but luckily she not only held the lead this time but did the math.
2: I was sold at transubstantiation of silicon into calculating matter. Directly reminiscent of the old school Stephenson jaunt Mother Earth, Mother Board, in which Neal followed the hidden pathways of undersea fiber lines across the planet, Virginia Heffernan writes a personal exploration of one of the most important places in the physical and digital world, the headquarters of TSMC in Taiwan. Great writing in the New Journalism vein, and worth the investment.
3: If you’re not watching this season of Fargo, you’ve got a week to fix it before everything comes to a head. I was a huge fan of Noah Hawley’s work on Legion, but Fargo might be more accessible, if no less mind-bending. Beyond which, the soundtrack is in-fuckin’-credible (including an amazing rendition of Britney’s Toxic).
Projects In Progress
Spent the day helping assemble a new TV, dispose of an old TV, and grabbing a burger. Not a lot else done beyond that.