Charlie Sweatpants

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Joined for sports, blogging again, I work in software but have written a book New York publishers deemed "too risky": We Kicked Their Ass: A New and Better History of the American Revolution Read a preview chapter at the blog: www.deadhomers.com he/him

Screenshot from the linked article: What did the culture review conclude regarding Athletic Director Warde Manuel? The culture review found that Warde Manuel demonstrated important leadership strengths, particularly his commitment to student-athletes. At the same time, it identified failures to quickly and effectively act on allegations of wrongdoing by Athletic Department employees.
Malloy, sitting on his prison bunk, looking smug.
Sam Neill and Helen McCrory in the Peaky Blinders S2 finale, their faces are very close, she has just lowered her gun from his neck to his ribs as he creeps on her by recounting the time he raped her.
Sam Neill in his first scene as Inspector Campbell in Peaky Blinders, staring at his own reflection in a mirror, about to tear the Birmingham PD a new one.
Closeup of July 1984 Playgirl cover promising Baseball's Super Hunks, featuring Ricky Henderson, Steve Sax, George Brett, and Ron Kittle.
The July 1984 Playgirl cover with an article about Those Kennedy Kids The Curse of America's most famous family
Katalyst space diagram from the linked Ars article showing LEO Link Servicing Mission for SWIFT, showing a multi stage drawing where the rocket launches, deploys, connects to the NASA mission, boosts it, then drops off.
Simpsons screenshot with military school commandant saying Welcome to flavor county.
Screenshot from linked article, reading: The email points again to Opus 4.7, saying, “Every interaction with Opus 4.7 (and other models in its class such as GPT 5.5) consumes significantly more credits than standard or mid-tier models.” It then provides a breakdown of what Citi employees should use each model for: GPT-5.3-Codex for quick questions, explanations, or simple code generation; the same model or Claude Sonnet 4.6 for code review and “standard chat;” then higher models like Claude Sonnet 4.6 for “architectural reasoning.”
screenshot of Google Maps Main and Pauline in Ann Arbor, blue box around the two party houses
10ish books on shipwrecks at AADL
Screenshot of a 3-0 Spain over Saudi Arabia score
Picture of a TV showing soccer, on the wall are 20+ year old celebrity pictures:Pitt, Cruise, De Niro and Kermit the Frog
Picture of my TV with the Vegas Golden Knights center ice logo. It's a Sun, I think, but looks like cheese to me
My TV, badly photographed in poor light, but with a double YTTV box of NBA Finals and World Cup soccer.
A grainy picture of an Excel spreadsheet listing my teams as France, Morocco, Ecuador, Czechia, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
Picture of my Onion print edition with a 1/3 page ad for Xfinity, tagline: So determined to earn your business back you'll file a restraining order.
Screenshot from the original post containing just the words "American people who cry out for patriotic content"
Screenshot from IMDb Trivia: In an interview with Black Belt magazine, Seagal claimed the title "Half Past Dead" came from his habit of eating as much pork chow mein in five minutes as he can, which causes him to enter a death-like state where he obtains total zen enlightenment." A lot of the other trivias are about how this was the last movie he had released in theaters before becoming a home video guy. Also apparently had a spiritual advisor on set who stopped filming if Stevie was off karmically.
Screenshot from sportscenter this morning with James Harden looking like he just got woken up from a nap at the after game press conference. ESPN but a graphic below him: "11th career 5-turnover game when facing elimination. Most since 1978". Heh
Screenshot from Simpsons episode Dog of Death with an angry man yelling at a veterinary nurse who thinks his gamecock will never fight again
Ars Technica headline "Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time" with Eric Berger, notorious Elon fluffer, as the sole byline.
Text from linked gizmodo article Earlier this month, in the Texas Business Court, Chaac Pizza Northeast sued Pizza Hut after its restaurants were forced to use an AI delivery management platform known as Dragontail. Pizza Hut’s parent company, Yum! Brands, acquired Dragontail Systems in 2021.
Screenshot from the Old Money episode showing a ghostly Bea riding a roller coaster with Abe while he wears "Napoleon's hat".
Screenshot from likened article Perhaps the funniest sign that Make Heaven Crowded isn’t doing so hot? The striking absence of Erika Kirk, who spoke at the kick-off event in Los Angeles but has otherwise been missing in action. She was reportedly scheduled to show up at the Orlando, Florida, stop in February, but that was canceled at the last minute. Kirk also bowed out of scheduled appearances in Plano, Texas, and at Iowa State University. But these absences haven’t received as much attention as her cancellation of a University of Georgia event in April, which left Vice President JD Vance speaking to an underwhelming crowd. While the excuses change — “family time,” “security concerns” and “scheduling conflicts” have been cited — the one constant is that Erika Kirk manages to not appear when the crowds aren’t looking robust.
Screenshot of a wordcount showing 1,411 words in 8,455 characters
A black cat sitting on a brick floor looking unimpressed that I am photographing him and not petting him.
Screenshot from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/politics/white-house-defends-trumps-north-korea-salute.html showing a NYT story "White House Defense Trump's Salute to a North Korean Military Officer" from 2018.
Screenshot from crappy ass Google Books reading, in part, "Haidar Ali of Mysore became a cult figure : Philadelphia merchants named a warship after him."
Screenshot of Moe from the Simpsons in bed with his waitress saying he was just thinking of Sybil Danning instead of her
Two pane panel from The Simpsons. Left pane is Lisa at the dinner table, looking sad. Caption reads: I didn't think you'd understand. Second panel is Homer at the table, looking upset. "Hey! Just because I don't care doesn't meant I don't understand!"
The current frinkiac homepage celebrating "Happy 10th Birthday"
Simpsons screenshot showing a carnival woman kissing a baseball
Screenshot from the Simpsons with Homer leaning into a TV editor with a year 2000 goatee saying "This will be the last season".
An old VOX chart showing that the top decile of drinkers are in a league of their own.
Screenshot from Simpsons with GI Joe holding Stacy LaVelle, inventor of Malibu Stacy
Sign outside an arena reading: TONIGHT: Championship Hockey TOMORROW: Entertain yourselves, Dammit!
A cheap looking plaster lander thing a few inches across that, at the push of a button, can raise and lower a tiny plastic cross. There is a bombastic and cheesy background music that reminds one more of the hold theme at a trampoline place than space, the majesty of creation, or the important mission of putting a cross on the moon.
Screenshot from the Simpsons with Grandpa sleeping in his own filth on the couch while CPS agents look on
Receipt from the charity bowl for $32.02
A dedicated man in his Castleton college tshirt
Screenshot from the game of Izzo looking sad while and old white guy in a Michigan jacket looks on form the second row with a smile.
Screenshot from linked article reading: The two types of cuts produce different prisms by which light is bent, therefore creating different patterns of shine and sparkle. Stones cut in a rose cut style are specially faceted to throw light in a way that is uniquely suited to perform well under conditions of low light or under candlelight – conditions that this ring certainly would have been worn in when it was first owned by Rachel Revere.
A lady duck eating seed from a small dish on my patio while the green headed mallard watches.
Screenshot from linked article “My understanding of Harvard’s orientation towards its research was that it was a PR measure to limit both publicity and legal liability,” DeAngelis said. “My job was not to use all of my skills as a historian to uncover the historical truth. My role was to hold down a desk that allowed Harvard to mislead the press about how serious they were about making reparations and confronting centuries of profiting from slavery.”
Screenshot of a very happy Martin Prince directing more kids into his new and very crowded pool. He says "More, I say! Hang those who talk of less!"
A picture of a Ritz end cap i took at the store. A white guy with big hair and big eyes is mostly obscured by the means of his impending death, a giant Ritz cracker.
Screenshot from the Simpsons showing the NASA control room as one NASA guy asks the other: And how's the spacecraft doing? I don't know. All this equipment is just used to measure TV ratings.
Cartoon cover for I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, witk Keenan Ivory Wayans and Bernie Casey heavily armed and overlooking a great cast that includes Dean Wormer from Animal House.
Screenshot of Lisa Simpson, poetically summing up the proudest moment of her life as her father returns to Earth from space. How doth the hero, strong and brave, a celestial path,? in the heavens pave.
Screenshot from Wikipedia for "List of NCAA Division I men's Frozen Four appearances by team" showing Michigan at the top with 29 appearances, including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2026 since the last title in 1998.
Simpsons screenshot of a kid playing William Henry Harrison singing, "I died in thirty days!"
A mostly not blurry screenshot of Will and Tarris hugging it out as confetti drops around them. Yes, Tarris is on the other team, but he's okay and he and Will are friends.
Text from link to Al Jazeera live blog: Key points from Iran’s National Security Council statement The prime minister of Pakistan has informed Iran that the US has accepted Iran’s 10-point plan as the basis for negotiations. “Accordingly, it was decided at the highest level that Iran will hold negotiations with the American side in Islamabad for two weeks and solely on the basis of these principles.” “It is emphasised that this does not mean an end to the war, and Iran will accept an end to the war only when – in view of Iran’s acceptance of the principles envisaged in the 10-point plan – its details are also finalised in the negotiations.” The negotiations will begin in Islamabad on Friday, April 11. Iran does not trust the US and will allocate two weeks for these negotiations. This time can be extended by agreement of the parties. “If the surrender of the enemy in the field becomes a decisive political achievement in the negotiations, we will celebrate this great historical victory together. Otherwise we will fight side by side in the field until all the demands of the Iranian nation are achieved. Our hands are on the trigger, and as soon as the slightest mistake by the enemy is made, it will be responded to with full force.”
Screenshot from linked article: Iran’s reply reportedly consisted of 10 clauses, all highlighted below, as per reporting from the likes of The New York Times and Axios. Iran’s 10-point peace plan Guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again Permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire End to Israeli strikes in Lebanon Lifting of all US sanctions on Iran End to all regional fighting against Iranian allies Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz Iran would impose a $2m fee per ship transiting Hormuz Iran would split these fees with Oman Iran would establish rules for safe passage through Hormuz Iran would use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations