Friday, January 16, 2026
New video game Humble Bundle featuring Indie Gems
Starts at three ganes and a coupon for $5. Big variety of game type.
Yes, I've waited so long for sportswriting in this category of stupid
From a long profile of Elway from 2016:
TO HEAR HIM speak of death as a hurdle, a dare, an obstacle to clear like first-and-98, makes me think of John Elway and, well, a waffle maker.It was January 2011, the first day of Senior Bowl week in Mobile, Alabama. Shortly after 6 a.m. in the restaurant of a downtown Hampton Inn, scouts swarmed around the breakfast buffet before heading out to practice for player weigh-ins -- the grunt work, the stuff nobody wants to do. Out of the lobby elevator, barrel-chested, bowlegged and pigeon-toed, came John Elway.He was less than three weeks into his new job running the Broncos. He wore a leather jacket. Desk clerks stared. Scouts stared. It was like Springsteen had showed up for open mic night. Elway approached the waffle maker, poured the batter and clamped the irons. The red light didn't come on. He flipped it over. Nothing. He fiddled with it. Still nothing. Then he got that look he gets when he's imposing his will. Brow furrowed, tongue hugging his upper lip. The look from when he threw the bullet that capped The Drive, the look from when he launched himself into three Packers near the goal line in Super Bowl XXXII. A look of high stakes let loose on a breakfast buffet
And now, from SI's article, "Inside the Meal That Sealed the Deal for the Giants and John Harbaugh":
When Salouros got the call, he turned to his chef, Louis Falcone, and decided they were going to go off-menu. They had a separate steak, chicken and fish dish exclusive to Harbaugh and the Giants that, depending on the coach’s preference, they would make fresh.The appetizer selection was a Rolodex of Elia’s greatest hits: tuna tartare, fried zucchini and eggplant chips, octopus and fried calamari.Salouros said that the only disagreement was who would order first. Harbaugh deferred to Mara, who insisted that Harbaugh was the “man of the hour.” Harbaugh went with the fish, and Mara doubled down by saying he’d have the same thing. Schoen, in perhaps one of the great culinary power moves of all time, went with the ribeye.
(Check out the record of the team under the GM who executed that culinary power move) (The article continues to go into tremendous detail about the meal?)
Meanwhile, his previous employer:
@bleacherreport Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti says Harbaugh would have only had one more week if Tyler Loop made the FG 😳 (Via @Baltimore Ravens) #nfl #nflfootball #football #ravens ♬ original sound - bleacherreport
Today's news and jokes
this is genuinely incredible
— Simpsons of Post Mysticism (@photonmarie.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Motorists try to reverse away as massive waves swamp a road in Italy
@apnews Motorists were forced to reverse as powerful waves flooded a coastal road in Scilla, Italy, on Jan. 10. Video shows waves blocking a tunnel linking Scilla and Chianalea.
♬ original sound - The Associated Press
Cutaway diorama showing that Amsterdam is built on wooden piles (art roundup)
@miniatuurmuseumamsterdam Amsterdam looks solid. It isn’t. Millions of wooden piles are holding this city up. Hashtags: #Amsterdam #HiddenAmsterdam #MiniatureArt #HistoryTok #MuseumTok #miniatuurmuseumamsterdam ♬ A Summer Place - Hollywood Strings Orchestra
Thursday, January 15, 2026
"When Daidai realised her father was too old to slaughter two pigs for a traditional community feast in the run-up to Chinese New Year, she turned to social media"
"Can anyone help me?" she asked on Douyin, China's version of Tiktok, at the end of last week. "My father is old. I am worried that he can't handle these pigs."
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So many responded that traffic jams have brought roads in this part of rural Chongqing in south-west China to a standstill
Fabulous dunk photo
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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Second photo not quite as good as the first still, but the second photo in this roll is cool:The high res shot 📸 Tony Huynh/Orlando Magic
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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