🏀 We are so back!

Great night at the Paris Basketball game against Tony Parker’s ASVEL tonight!

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100 agree with this take:

The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!).

Daring Fireball | Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back

PS: as an original Pebble backer on kickstarter, I’m very excited to see how this will go…

Between tough work days and other personal things… I’ve really been looking forward to tonight’s Champions League games (and going back to my Paris Basketball game tomorrow evening for another big Euroleague rivalry game)

🍿 🎥 “The Substance” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ …aka The Fountain of Youth

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Also, as a side note: between Coralie Fargeat and Titane’s Julia Ducournau, the future of French filmmaking is bright, original, and female!

🤤 🏀 Inside the NBA’s growing talks to add a new league in Europe | The Athletic

The NBA asked the EuroLeague to partner together on a European basketball league

…(and as expected the Euroleague refused)

Diet Coke will kill you a lot faster than regular Coke will.

“The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”

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Man, Balatro is such a blast! Glad the ad-free version is available on  Arcade 🕹️🤩

Who’s the Mac Miller/Kendrick of female rappers? Little Simz?

Anyone else with substance that doesn’t rap about Channel bags and cars?

🍿 🎥 Nosferatu: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the end it was all about love!

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Per my usual habit of watching shows one season at a time after all episodes are available, I can finally join the happy viewers of The Penguin.

What a great production, storyline, cast and execution!

📺 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Biden is like the protagonist in a horror movie who defeats the villain but doesn’t finish him off, congratulates himself, and turns his back on his foe and starts walking off into the sunset. All the while, with the audience screaming, “Finish him off! He’s getting back up! Turn around! Oh god, I can’t watch…”

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Been telling y’all to stay away from “zero” and “diet” soda. This shit does more harm than good:

Some of the artificial sweeteners in zero-calorie sodas (…) appear to shift the microbiome in ways that impair the body’s handling of sugar. (There has been) striking declines in microbial diversity. Some of our gut bacteria have disappeared altogether.

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This man is my hero:

“The food here is different,” he said in a heavy French accent. “Bigger portions. Too much salt. Too much sugar.” He decided to enroll in a paid study at his wife’s new workplace. It was exploring why the American diet, compared with almost any other, causes people to gain weight and develop chronic diseases”

Silver Linings:

So while I’m recoveringing at home, this is …for the better in my part

‘Tis the season 🤧

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My first attended game of 2025 and we’re back to winning ways! @ACMomento @ParisBasketball #Basketball

🍿 🎥 🎦: The Count of Monte Cristo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This was the best French movie I’ve seen in years! Great story, great execution, delightful set designs & costumes!

Alright, time for some Super Bowl predictions: 🏈 #RavensFlock #BaltimoreRavens

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Finished reading: Batman/Catwoman by Tom King 📚

What an interesting storyline: didn’t think we’d get to see that perspective of past/present/future but it worked really well!