Displaced Jersey Boy

@exjerseyboy.bsky.social

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Long time liberal. Silicon Valley guy. Guitar player. Engineer. Obsessed w/my coonhound. Go Mets/Knicks/Warriors/Giants (BB&FB)!

Picture of Victor Wembanyama reaching under one of Karl Anthony Towns' arms, across towns chest, changing the shape of Towns jersey with that reach in. In that play, with the help of replay, Towns was called for the foul.
Pictures of Reggie Miller and Tyrese Halliburton making gestures "choking" themselves to taunt the Knicks when eliminating them from the playoffs in previous years.
Picture of a TV showing Juan Soto batting .141 with RISP, .290 otherwise.
A screenshot of a post from Donald Trump that starts by saying, “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”
Screenshot of an email recommending the books "Good Material" by Dolly Alderton and "Ordinary Human Failings" by Megan Nolan. Just as Amazon has recommended every few weeks for 2 years.
Image showing the 1st pitch of the at-bat is WAY outside the strike zone, but the ump calls it a strike, because a Met is at-bat.
Pitch chart showing that the 1st pitch of the at-bat was clearly a strike, but was called a ball because MLB umpires mostly stink at their job.
Screenshot from the MLB app showing the pitches Clay Holmes threw to Palacios with 2 outs already in the inning. Pitches 4, 5, and 6 were all in the strike zone, but pitches 5 and 6 were called balls.
Screenshot of an iPhone with a request, "Hey Siri set a one hour 3-D print timer.
Image showing the results of a Google search of "Does Mark Cuban still own the mavericks" (incidentally, the first hit of typing "Does Mark" Result is, "Cuban, who bought the team in 2000, sold his majority stake in 2023. The sale gave control of the franchise to the family of Miriam Adelson, who run the Las Vegas Sands casino company"
Picture of the prettiest Redbone Coonhound in the world doing a very long stretch in a room with striped carpet.
Picture of a section of a CVS shelf, where toothbrushes are hung for sale, but in front of every toothbrush is a piece of yellow paper offering a deal on the product, but also obscuring it.
Closeup picture of a middle aged redbone coonhound, staring up with pleading eyes.
Picture of Mets player, Jose Iglesias, in the locker room wearing goggles, getting champagne dumped on him during an interview.
Chart showing growth of $400m at 2%interest, compounded annually, resulting in over $1B.
Block of text from the Crowdstrike explanation that says, "What Happened on July 19, 2024? On July 19, 2024, two additional IPC Template Instances were deployed. Due to a bug in the Content Validator, one of the two Template Instances passed validation despite containing problematic content data."
Quote from the book Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbours sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counselled one and all, and everyone said “Amen.
Table of Gallup Historical Presidential Job approval Statistics. The last 5 rows are circled in red: George HW Bush 60.9% Bill Clinton 55.1% George W Bush 49.4% Barack Obama 47.9% Donald Trump 41.1%
Screenshot of a Google search, saying “Banks never will. Scammers count on getting you to act before you think, usually by including a threat. Banks never will. A scammer might say “act now or your account will be closed,” or even “we've detected suspicious activity on your account” — don't give into the pressure.”
Screenshot that says, “U.S. Bank will never contact you by phone or email to ask for your account numbers, PIN numbers, or any other confidential information. U.S. Bank only asks you for confidential information to verify your identity when you initiate contact with us. To contact us online, type usbank.com on your Internet browser.”