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Weird week here. It was in the 70s Monday, high 60s Tuesday, then the wind chill was in the teens all day Wednesday. The sun is bright and dazzling today, but it is still very chilly. That combined with some other things has thrown my body clock off.[1]<\/a> I\u2019m having trouble sleeping at night then struggle all day to avoid taking a nap, usually unsuccessfully, so I can go to bed tired. The cherry on top was our tornado sirens going off at 2:00 AM Wednesday morning as severe thunderstorms blew through. Pretty sure I got less than four hours of sleep that night.<\/p>\n

So rather that write about the Jayhawks and get mad again, finish up a Reader\u2019s Notebook post, or share some more thoughts on the car-buying process, here are a few pretty solid links.<\/p>\n

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Sally Jenkins with a fantastic piece about how the NCAA\u2019s stance on Lynette Woodard\u2019s scoring mark – which Caitlin Clark passed last night – is just another hypocritical stance in its long history of them.<\/p>\n

There is nothing trivial about this. It\u2019s an act of erasure. Example: the NCAA regards Michigan as the holder of the record for most college football victories of all time, with 989. Yet the NCAA didn\u2019t come into existence until 1910, and Michigan began playing football in 1879. The NCAA doesn\u2019t strike or asterisk anything Michigan won \u201cpre-NCAA.\u201d\u2026The NCAA wouldn\u2019t dream of ignoring those years.<\/p>\n

Yet they do so with women\u2019s basketball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The NCAA erased an entire generation of women\u2019s sports<\/a><\/p>\n

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If someone writes about the Voyager spacecraft, I\u2019m obligated to share it. I loved the opening line of this piece about Voyager 1\u2019s impending death.<\/p>\n

Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Death, Lonely Death<\/a><\/p>\n

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You know those sketchy texts you get occasionally about some package that can\u2019t be delivered unless you do X or Y? In this piece, the author did a deep dive and learned that a text he thought was a phishing attempt was actually legit. Things are just going to get more confusing as AI takes over more and more of the logistics\/customer service stack.<\/p>\n

Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished<\/a><\/p>\n

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I dig stories about submarines, so this was pretty awesome. Well, other than the fact the Navy signed off on it because the world is as unstable and close to major war as it has been since the fall of the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n

Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Trust me, the very stupid basketball game Tuesday<\/a> contributed a lot to my messed-up sleep cycle. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Weird week here. It was in the 70s Monday, high 60s Tuesday, then the wind chill was in the teens all day Wednesday. The sun is bright and dazzling today, but it is still very chilly. That combined with some other things has thrown my body clock off.[1] I\u2019m having trouble sleeping at night then struggle all day to avoid taking a nap, usually unsuccessfully, so I can go to bed tired. The cherry on top was our tornado sirens going off at 2:00 AM Wednesday morning as severe thunderstorms blew through. Pretty sure I got less than four hours of sleep that night. So rather that write about the Jayhawks and get mad again, finish up a Reader\u2019s Notebook post, or share some more thoughts on the car-buying process, here are a few pretty solid links. Sally Jenkins with a fantastic piece about how the NCAA\u2019s stance on Lynette Woodard\u2019s scoring mark – which Caitlin Clark passed last night – is just another hypocritical stance in its long history of them. There is nothing trivial about this. It\u2019s an act of erasure. Example: the NCAA regards Michigan as the holder of the record for most college football victories of all time, with 989. Yet the NCAA didn\u2019t come into existence until 1910, and Michigan began playing football in 1879. The NCAA doesn\u2019t strike or asterisk anything Michigan won \u201cpre-NCAA.\u201d\u2026The NCAA wouldn\u2019t dream of ignoring those years. Yet they do so with women\u2019s basketball. The NCAA erased an entire generation of women\u2019s sports If someone writes about the Voyager spacecraft, I\u2019m obligated to share it. I loved the opening line of this piece about Voyager 1\u2019s impending death. Billions of miles away at the edge of the Solar System, Voyager 1 has gone mad and has begun to die. Death, Lonely Death You know those sketchy texts you get occasionally about some package that can\u2019t be delivered unless you do X or Y? In this piece, the author did a deep dive and learned that a text he thought was a phishing attempt was actually legit. Things are just going to get more confusing as AI takes over more and more of the logistics\/customer service stack. Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished I dig stories about submarines, so this was pretty awesome. Well, other than the fact the Navy signed off on it because the world is as unstable and close to major war as it has been since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe Trust me, the very stupid basketball game Tuesday contributed a lot to my messed-up sleep cycle. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-12573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12575,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12573\/revisions\/12575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}