Until recently, I could never quite pinpoint the most maddening act of preying on our wallets in youth sports. The contenders are endless. Charging gate or parking fees on top of hefty tournament fees? Gross. $6 for a bottle of Kirkland brand water? Puh-lease. Clubs with regular (mandatory) uniform updates that are strikingly similar to the previous design? Annoying. But there is one money grab so egregious that it deserves its own throne on the mantle of greed.
My autocorrect frequently corrects “writing” to “worrying”. This persists even after I’ve taught the algorithm to be less inquisitive, and better informed. It’s definitely not a message from the universe, I thought, until yesterday, when my phone autocorrected “reading” to “raging”. Now this is a bit more serious, and somewhat disconcerting in its philosophical and political implications. The whole thing got me thinking, and, in truth, the rightful mistake autocorrect should be making is converting “thinking” to “writing”.
Great list! And I've been to more than I thought considering I am more a wine drinker.
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- Bar Goto Niban really does have great bar snacks. Once when there my friend and I got their celery snack and we still talk about it (celery of all things!)
- I haven't been to The Campbell since the before times but I did try and go once in late 2021 and the line was super long and more sceney than I remember.
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Wahab Riaz steaming in was a physical presence. You felt him coming in; he was visceral. He was stamping towards the wicket, forcing his way there. It is all shoulders and spit. Every step was a thump; it looked like he was trying to battle the crease and hurl down one final missile to win it all.
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The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Black Hole! You may react like this:
“ Something like that Gargantua from Interstellar? Yeah, I know what it is. It is a region in space from where nothing can escape.”
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