Conventions be damned, I ain't cheering for them.

With Indianapolis being an AFC city, it would be conventional sports fandom to cheer for the AFC team in the Super Bowl if the Colts weren't in it, but... yeah, there's no way I'm cheering for the Pats.

As a kid growing up in Atlanta when the Braves were still in the NL West the joke went "Who are an Atlanta baseball fan's two favorite teams? The Braves and whoever's playing the Dodgers."

So last night's manhandling of New England by the Seahawks was pretty tasty, if vicarious, revenge on our home team's nemesis.

I only caught the second half of the game, which means I watched it devolve from a slightly one-sided 9-0 affair into a 29-13 curb stomping. Seattle fans looked happy about getting sweet vengeance for Super Bowl XLIX.

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Sunday Meme Dump!

Meme Dump!

Overheard in the Office...

RX: "'Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in Spain'."

Me: "I'm so glad that final consonant turned out to be what it was, because I was braced for 'Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in space'."

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Gold Medal Memes!

Meme Dump!

Writing Elsewhere...

• People toss "the OODA loop" (aka Boyd's Decision Cycle) around a lot, but what does it mean in the context of personal protection?


• Modifying a Mosin? Why? What do you expect the result to be?

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I like big guns and I cannot lie.

Was HMS Dreadnought revolutionary? Did it trigger a genuine revolution in naval affairs?

For a deep dive into the era, I recommend Massie's Dreadnought and Castles of Steel.

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Gasp. Shock.

After the Department of Justice released three million files over the weekend, blockchain enthusiasts were quick to discover a certain Jeffery Epstein was an active and prominent figure in crypto during its formative years.

You mean the untraceable "currency" most famous for unregulated speculation and its usefulness in paying for criming had some shady figures and twisted sickos in on the ground floor? Who could have predicted that, other than everybody?

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Mid-Week Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• Keeping people mad all the time in order to keep them staying tuned through the commercials to sell Trumpy Bear, commemorative coins, and dick pills has some negative side effects.


• More Epstein Files squickery. (Related: "Russiagate" and the Epstein Files are the same story.)


• Spanish Hornets operating out of Lithuania intercept Russian SU-30 over the Baltic.

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Meme Dump!

Automotif DCXI...

The third generation F-bodies have aged so, so well. Just a really great design, aesthetically. If they'd been built by an Italian manufacturer you wouldn't be able to get automotive journalists to shut up about what timelessly classic lines they have.

More on this '91-'92 Camaro RS can be found here.

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A historical take...

"Wake up babe, new role model just dropped."

Our curators are lowkey rizzlers. So they teamed up with our intern to make this video. pic.twitter.com/5SFyexRO7y

— National Gallery of Art (@ngadc) December 19, 2025

Memes to Jump Start the Week!

Meme Dump!

Automotif DCX...

The vanity plate reads "SWISS 1". Although when I greeted the owner with "Love your car!", she answered that it was her second.

Check out the little silhouette of Switzerland on the hood!

This one was photographed in August of 2020 using a Nikon D7000.

Meme Dump!

Criming in the Open

What's hilarious is that back when Hillary's emails got linked, conspiracy weirdos went poring through them, trying to decide if references to "cheese pizza" were actually code talk for kiddie diddling.

Now that huge tranches of Epstein emails are getting dumped out to the public, it turns out that these kinds of people just send each other emails that straight up say "Had a great time criming with you on KidFuck Island last weekend. Hopefully we can get together and do some more criming next time I have an opening on my calendar. Don't forget to bring some kids to traffic!"

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TGIF Memes!

Meme Dump!

Brrr!

We’re stuck in an extended cold spell largely because of all snow to the south and west of us.

A couple days of southwesterly wind is what usually snaps us out of these, but wind out of TX/OK/AR is blowing across hundreds of miles of snow covered ground. Until they thaw, we aren’t going to get above freezing.

Depending on whose forecast you believe, it may be as late as next weekend before any of this starts to melt.

One thing I would not have predicted...

When I was five years old, if you told me that my opinions on Spaghetti-O's (actually Chef Boyardee products in general) and naps would swap places entirely, I would have thought you were fibbing.

These days, I'm a big fan of naps and not so much so with the Spaghetti-O's.

Meme Dump from the Frozen Wastes!

"At least it's an ethos..."

Employees at the surveillance company Palantir are apparently uneasy about one of the company's high profile clients:

In a Saturday thread on Slack discussing Pretti’s killing, Palantir workers questioned both the ethics and the business logic of continuing the company’s work with ICE.

I mean, given the company's entire portfolio is creepy-ass panopticon data mining stuff, it feels a little weird that this is the bridge too far.

“I mean, I’m proud to serve the White Hand,” said Ugluk the Uruk Hai, “The pay’s good and we get double rations of hafling tenderloin on Fridays, but nobody said anything about doing contract work for Sauron.”

It snowed some...

Fresh Market had cleared their lot and the surrounding sidewalks as best as they could, but temps in the low single digits really reduce the effectiveness of brine pretreatment and salt applied post-plowing.

I'd say that probably 70-80% of people had made at least a good faith effort at clearing their walks. Pretty decent, considering the volume of snow. If you don't want to shovel walks, why pay extra to live in a neighborhood where walkability is one of the main attractions? "We live in a society" and all that.

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Meme Dump!

Tab Clearing...

• The Spinner from Blade Runner, from the fertile mind of Sid Mead...


• Saudi Arabia is scaling back on Neom, their weird project to build a linear megacity in the desert.


• It's cold, y'all.

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Snow-Day Meme Dump!