Spurs 1-0 Everton FT
Palhinha's first half goal is the difference. I felt good until the last half hour when West Ham took the lead on worthless Leeds. Everton started pushing at that point, but Spurs weathered the pressure.

Looks like Fotmob was wrong and Spence is playing on the wing (which he's done before) so Pedro Porro is in his usual spot.

De Zerbi opting to move Pedro Porro to the forward line and bring in Djed Spence at right back is pretty big news, but at least one Spurs podcast suggested it as the best option to replace Kola Muani, given how dreadful he was against Chelsea.

TIL: A lot of NWSL games end up on ION/Tubi. All three of today's are there back to back in a triple header which is actually kind of cool.

Feel like I'm in a bit of a funk right now with the larger projects I've been working on and thinking about lately. Haven't put in much time on them since the beginning of the week.

Productive day at home today. Mowed the lawn and watered the front and back (this is the challenging one because of the dogs). Tired now though.

It's surprisingly inexpensive to replace my iPhone 11's screen so I'll probably do that and the battery in the next month or so. I've been living with a slowly expanding patch of dead pixels for about a year and a half.

Just heard that the Spokane Zephyr are folding. Sad, angry, and not entirely surprised. Really glad we were able to take the girls to their second to last game.

The Punisher: One Last Kill 👍 John Bernthal is definitively Frank Castle at this point, and the 15 minutes of absolutely cinematic mayhem this show is built-around is impressive... But I feel like this special raised more questions about the cost of being an agent of escalating violence than it addressed.

Huge news from Magic Arena today, all the Marvel sets going forward will have the full IP and artwork. Furthermore they'll be converting all the previous Through the Omenpaths versions to Spider-man. Sickos that prefer the Omenpath treatment can choose them via cosmetic selection, but it will be all Marvel from here on out.

Chelsea 2-1 Spurs, and I'm fuming. Today was an absolutely squandered opportunity to avoid relegation.

Incredibly frustrating game for both teams with 25 minutes to go, even though Chelsea leads 1-0. Looks like De Zerbi is going to bring on Maddison, Spence, and Sarr with 70 minutes, but they just gave up the second goal. So angry with this Spurs performance!

Heh, Chelsea - Spurs is actually on Peacock today. I swear that I saw it was on USA originally, but happy to learn otherwise.

Now that we have enough laptops in the house set up with Magic Arena, excited to try some LAN party style family competitions with a couple of head to head games going at once.

Had to give up my stupid USB-C - headphone jack dongle to my son since his bluetooth headphones died. Guess I won't be using my iPad to watch YouTube videos at lunch for a while.

Good 4K run on the Children of the Son trail with the girls yesterday. We timed it just right and the hard rain hit right as we reached the car!

Absolutely frigid 8 am game to start off the girls' Saturday games. S had a brace, but a very frustrating defensive effort from her team cost them the game despite their biggest offensive output of the season.

Blue Lock is a real trip. I was kind of skeptical early, but 8 episodes in I'm hooked. From a story analysis perspective very curious to see how developed every participant was by the end.

Gemma Chat is a super cool project, but it's clearly not a priority for its originator, as pull requests with fixes have gone completely ignored for weeks. I wonder if anyone has forked it yet and given it some bugfix love?

Feeling okay now that I'm somewhat hydrated, but woke up with a bit of a headache. Aiming for a productive Friday heading into the weekend.

The new Drafts.app release has Claude integration via MCP so excited to try that out. Having direct access to my goto text repository utility is super helpful.

TIL: that smaller Gemma 4 models handle tooling calls better if they can be expressed as xml rather than json. I discovered this via Gemma Chat a really cool, but not particularly active project a Google Engineer created.

Windy and damp day today. Sounds like it's going to be pretty gusty at times as well. Not a great day to have to watch a soccer practice so I'll probably go for a walk during if it's not raining too hard. Otherwise I might just retreat to my car.

Learned fairly late last night that former GU and current Memphis Grizzlies player, Brandon Clarke, had passed at age 29. So tragic. Such an amazing player at his physical peak, but injuries completely derailed his career over the last three years. I wonder if that led to a painkiller and addiction spiral? Nothing official has been announced, but overdose seems to be the speculation.

Gotta love a Midweek Magic that just lets you play a normal Standard deck and gives you a cool bonus emblem (both players get a free Chromatic Star on turn one). Knocked out two Daily Quests and racked up 7 weekly wins after not playing Sunday or Monday.

I've been going through the Cascade High School yearbooks from 1970-78, when my dad taught and coached there, and now that it's time to move on to Moses Lake for the next batch of research, I feel a little bummed out. I was born in Stayton, and we didn't move until I was 5, so I do have plenty of fond memories from our time in Oregon, even if it was a brief fraction of my life.

If Spurs do get relegated I don't know what USA Network is going to do because I swear at least two thirds of our games are there rather than Peacock. I should be able to stream the game on campus, but unfortunately Xfinity on Campus authentication appears to be broken now.

Big game at noon my time. A win will put Spurs four points ahead of West Ham and relegation with two games to go.

For All Mankind S5E7: The Sirens of Titan 👍👍 Not sure what it says about me that I'm ready for Miles and Alex to drop a lander on Dev's head after this one. I definitely feel like the writers have dropped the ball on explaining Dev's allegiances all season, and I love how his desperate gambit demonstrated the fatal design flaw in his dream city.

Used Claude to whip up a script to dump some info I needed from our Jamf server via API. Will definitely be doing this kind of thing more in the future- next week in fact, when I need to do the equivalent query on the Windows side. I shudder to think how long this would have taken if I didn't automate this.

Finally realized that some of the knowledge base use cases I was considering for Hermes-Agent can be achieved with a local llm and my modest hardware if I ditch the framework and directly script it.

Curious to see if Villa bounces back against Forest in the Europa League semi-finals today. Not enough to tune in, but I'll follow on Fotmob.

Still kind of blown away by the kinds of exchanges that I can have with Claude. Had a good one about basketball slang origins.

Granite 4.1:8b is kind of dumb on general knowledge questions, but it's still decently performant on low end Apple hardware. I'll probably try hooking it up to Hermes-Agent later this week.

IBM's Granite 4.1:8b local model is interesting because it doesn't have a thinking loop like the comparably sized Qwen and Gemma models (I believe you can turn thinking off for those models) so it gives pretty fast responses.

Got up, did a quick watering pass on the front yard, and then went over it with the weed and feed. Annoyingly the suggested spreader value was too high for my spreader and dispensed faster than expected until I realized halfway through and dialed it back. One $30 bag should cover our entire yard, not just the front.

M4 Mac mini's now start at 16GB - 512GB for $799 due to high chip demand and manufacturing constraints. Bummer that you simply can't get a $599 one any more.

Heh, Chelsea got smoked 3-1 by Forest's B team. Looks like the relegation battle is well and truly between Spurs and West Ham alone at this point with 3 games to go.

Building air quality at work is dank and dusty again this morning just like when we started having AC issues last August. It was fine last week so I wonder what changed.

AV 1-2 TOT fT
Disappointing to give up the late goal at the end of stoppage time, but I'll take it because Spurs are back out of the relegation zone!

AV 0-2 TOT HT
Unexpectedly great first half from Spurs at Villa. Connor Gallaher opened the scoring with a brilliant strike from outside the box, and then Richy finished off a brilliant cross from Tel. Outstanding pressing and possession from Spurs kept Villa from threatening at all.

Thought I had an okay Prismari deck yesterday, and completely bombed out with an 0-3. Draft 6 is Quandrix and off to an okay 2-0 start, even though I'm fairly skeptical of this deck being any good.

7-2 in draft number 4 with my Silverquill deck. Enjoying this set quite a bit so far!

Realized last night that aiville (my local model testbed), though functional, was under some serious memory pressure due to some minor MLX/Ternary-Bonsai-8B-mlx-2bit bugs compounding over time. Got things sorted out again, but putting that model aside and sticking with ollama-hosted ones for now.

I heard that For All Mankind has been renewed for a sixth and final season. I think that's perfect as it will bring their timeline up to the present day era and hopefully allow for a satisfying conclusion to a pretty epic series.

Doing some terminal tweaking with Claude's help. Config setting font-thicken = true is a huge Ghostty lifesaver for my old eyes that I didn't know about. Now working on the shell itself and adding starship to give my prompt a glowup.

For All Mankind S5E6: No Sudden Moves 👍👍 Tense episode that sets up the big Earth - Mars conflict of the season. Boyd and Miles team up as the voices of reason, but despite their efforts, it looks like Earth and the M6 are just going to drop the hammer. Kind of funny that the Space Marine team Earth is going to ship there have a couple of potential Mars sympathizers.

Started watering in the front yard, but the hose picked up a couple of major leaks over the winter, so I used it to water a couple of smaller spots at the same time as my main targets.

Apple's timing on the Neo is pretty stellar from a work perspective. With basic Windows PC laptop prices rising and easily more than double the Neo, we're going to be directing a lot more of our users who just need a basic laptop toward the Neo.

I can see from the 1989-90 GSL season program how the issue started. Shadle Park won the league, but in a major mistake were also entered again on the 2-14 line instead of Ferris (completely missing). NC was the actual 5-11 team above Ferris. I think in subsequent years, as time passed, 5-11 just seemed more reasonable to people for a bad Ferris team, and NC completely got the shaft; they just kept reusing it and adding the last season.

I was looking through my collection of GSL programs from my dad's coaching era and found a glaring error that went unfixed across multiple years and programs. My sophomore year (1989-90 season), we went 2-14 in the GSL, only beating Rogers twice, yet the GSL records page shows us at 5-11. That's the kind of detail that my dad usually cared about getting right, so I'm fairly surprised he never got that cleared up in subsequent years.

Off to a 5-1 start, the first time I've drafted Silverquill this set. Practiced Offense is the truth.