🚨🥅 Goalie Goal! 🥅🚨

The Boston Bruins goaltender scored on an open net. I love to see a Goalie Goal no matter who nets it! Video on Twitter
Bruins’ Linus Ullmark becomes first Boston goaltender in franchise history to score goal - The Athletic 💸 (paywalled)

I love reading “day in the life” style stories of people in different professions. This is an excellent look at coaching in the National Hockey League. It’s easy to look at games and coaching and ask yourself what does the coach even do? The answer is, an absolute mountain of work. Most of which, like any job, isn’t readily apparent to the onlooker.

NHL masochism: Why assistants dream of the hard, (mostly) joyless move to head coach - The Athletic 💰Paywalled

In short, you’re a coach. 

And Luke Richardson loved that job.  

“It’s the closest thing to being a player,” he said. “Because you’re there and you spend lots of time with the players, you do one-on-one work with the guys physically and mentally and verbally. I enjoyed that contact.”

Well… I just turned 42 and just said the words out loud “I wonder where this bird lives and if I could meet him.”

The bird: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRtkXG…

I am 42.
I am answer to life, the universe and everything.

I didn’t know I would be walking through Costco crying as Self-Hosted Show: 89 Jellyfans shared the most heart-breaking data loss story I’ve ever heard.

📺 Welcome to Wrexham (2022)

What a warm, lovingly crafted, funny series overflowing with heart and love for Wrexham, Wales.

We binged through the 18 episode season in two evenings. Delighted to see there is another season coming.

If you enjoyed Ted Lasso, give this a go.

📺 Cunk on Earth (2022)

I’ve seen clips of this show on TikTok so when I saw it was on Netflix I ran to watch it! It’s hilarious and superbly put together.

#PumpUpTheJams

“If you’re gonna use me, use me up”

🎵 Use Me Up - Until the Ribbon Breaks

There is such motion and throughout this song. then it stops for a moment to soothe and speak. Then right back to that insatiable groove.

🎵 Nitesky feat. John LaMonica - Robot Koch

This is a great song. And I’m trying out Lantern from Robb Knight.

Spent today neck deep in Webex’s REST API, Postman and out application today trying to figure out why my numbers weren’t matching up.

I’m exhausted and my brain feels like the number of tabs I have open and VSCode, Typora, Excel and Text Edit documents I have open on my computer.

Had a woman ask my wife what channel the game is on today. We have no idea. I said to check out the chips aisle and there will certainly be an NFL on ____ ad there somewhere. 
I also said “beer aisle” when our county doesn’t allow beer sales in grocery stores. We have Beer and Wine stores. 
So maybe we aren’t the best to ask where the football is. 🏈

Return to Office Plan

Instead of sharing an office with one other person with a door you can close, we’re going to put you in a bullpen in a giant open space right next to the kitchen. Open Floor Plan!

It’s going to be so easy to collaborate! And drop in on your neighbor!

So in order to breed collaboration we are going to remove any possibility for focus.

My Return to Office Plan

• Pack my noise-canceling headphones. (I need quiet and focus. This is going to kill me.)
• Leave strictly 8 hours after arrival. (We’re not family, we’re workplace proximity associates.)
• Put in request for standing desk since all of the ones there are much too short (and there are plenty of standing/adjustable desks.)
• Bring a portable fan since we’ll be in the side of the office that’s perpetually too hot. (I’ll miss my ceiling fan overhead and ability to open a window.)

Seriously though, I just worked out a treadmill working setup so I could walk (very slowly) as I wrote JIRA tickets or read documentations. I have a standing desk at home where I’ve been working for the past 5-ish years.

I knew this day would come but I am absolutely dreading it.

Me: Look at that little shelf! It looks perfect for my growing Target fabric bird collection. Let’s see how much it is.

Wayfair: Get the app!

Me: But you’re a web store. Show me the product.

Wayfair: Get the app!

Me: Never mind then.

Last week a bought this laptop mount for our treadmill. Vivo Universal Laptop Treadmill Mount Walking for an hour between meetings while I work is something I should have done years ago. But here we are.

It’s all Velcro straps to secure it ti the treadmill and the height is adjustable via Allen wrench.

Dumb and shameful until it’s not - by Ryan Broderick

There are all kinds of legal and ethical problems around this technology. It’s exploitative. It’s wildly insecure. We don’t even fully understand what it will do to our brains, yet. And there is a new dumb company every day hawking worthless A.I. fixes to problems no one actually needs to solve.” Well, fun fact: That was true of Web 2.0 too! In 2013, I used an app called Foursquare to check-in to a dive bar in Greenpoint every weekend via the geotargeting on my phone so I could get free tater tots. Everything on the internet is dumb and shameful until it’s not.

It’s dumb until it’s not. If that doesn’t sum up the entire Internet experience, I don’t know what does.

The fragments of media you consume - by Ryan Broderick

TikTok is just a free Adobe Premiere for teenagers that lives on their phones. And it allows them a greater level of understanding about how sound and images work together than any other app probably ever.

All Twitter had to do to stop me from looking at it for more than collecting a roundup of Destiny 2 News each week was kill off their third party apps.

Ever Since Tweetbot went dark, I’ve not touched the site from anywhere other than Tweetdeck on my computer.

📺 Alice in Borderland (2020)

I enjoyed the first season and eagerly awaited the second. But it’s felt very different. Slower. I had a hard time studying engaged with tue story and characters this time around.

Season 1 is great. Season 2 feels like the middle of a trilogy and I have no idea there’s a Season 3 coming.

I Love RSS.

You can’t expect what you’re not willing to give. If you’re not willing to give it, you’re not getting it back end of story. Straight Outta Salem on TikTok

This is about work but it can be applied to any relationship.

My wife wanted to get some wine and ice cream and brownies tonight. It’s 10pm. I said well it’s fine because…

Then I had to stop myself because it’s MONDAY!

In the moment, I thought it was almost the weekend.

Beginning to think… in quite a worried way… that no part of my house is level or square. Or that 90 degree angles exist.

I foolishly bought a rectangular Billy bookcase to put in a rectangular space.

Watched Glass Onion. Followed by Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Both incredible.

Do I go for the trifecta of Jordan Peele’s NOPE or for something lighter?

So let me get this straight, you can’t have Siri use anything besides Apple Maps? And it wants to tell me all about Yelp?!

Sorry, Apple, when your maps app routed me to a closed street in DC that had been that way for quite some time by the.. lack of street beyond it, you lost.