No Idea

Just for fun. On the subject of how large the United States is, especially after seeing a bunch of social media posts during the World Cup, here is a comparison of two road trips.

Trip One. Starts in Gibralter, Spain and ends in Athens, Greece. Taking a northernly route through France to Slovenia and down through North Macedonia. The trip is 4,422 km long and would take about 43 hours.

Trip Two Starts in Los Angeles, California and ends in New York, New York. Taking a central route through the United States through New Mexico to Oklahoma and through Indiana and Ohio. The trip is 4,467 km (2,276 miles) long and would take about 41 hours.

Trip One goes through 8 countries. Starts at lattitude 36°N and ends at lattitude 38°N Trip Two goes through 11 states. Starts at lattitude 34° N and ends at lattitude 40°N

Advice worth trying to take to heart from coach Bob Knight

The key is not the will to win. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

Found through the Brain Food newsletter.

Relaxing Sunday morning.

On the same way that Tom Cruise has a Tom Cruise run and Daniel Craig has a James Bond run, Dave Bautista has a Dave Bautista run.

Salvador Perez now has the most home runs in Kansas City Royals history.

He has surpassed George Brett with his 318th career home runs today.

Being silent is good

This trailer reminded me what the Infinity War and Endgame trailers were like. I’ll be interested to see how or if they can make this work.

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Zoe looking towards the backyard.

Relaxing.

#Caturday

Thomas Friedman writes

So, Democrats, you have your assignment. It’s to not let Trump bait you into blind rage and extreme ideas. He feeds off that. Just focus on how much he has been fleecing all of us while tearing us apart. And how much Democrats intend to pull the whole country together.

Let’s focus on bringing Americans back together instead of pointing out all the ways that Trump and the current administration are pushing Americans apart.

That’s an excellent, big, bold idea to champion.

Stunning work.

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AI coffee for the morning. Had to ask the AI to remove some people in the background of the original generated image.

Ask for a cup of coffee and you shall receive.

Sunrise behind Half Dome

I dislike neighborhood fireworks for any occasion.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America. Truly American leadership is not of any one man. It is of multitudes of men—and women.

“Today, the majority reshapes our Government,” she wrote, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. “Dozens of independent commissions are now likely to become purely executive agencies, shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President’s hands.”

I hope that the first thing a Democratic president and Democratic controlled Congress do is enact a law or set of laws that enshrine our expected government norms as lines not to cross.

How dare you destroy a pizza like that.

Might be time for a rewatch of Interstellar. Maybe even a full on Christopher Nolan movie run.

The wood tones used make the interior feel very light and airy. I would have chosen a darker tone which would have changed the feeling of the space.

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