Brian’s Hprtxt Journal

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:24:19 -0400

I don’t want the World Cup to be over. At least I still have a week of the Tour de France to ease me out of the great summer sporting events.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:32:39 -0400

Wow, Paraguay! ¡Bravo!

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:10:32 -0400

Dream start for our American boys at the Workd Cup tonight! 🇺🇸

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:47:13 -0400

I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and Robert put some words behind my thoughts. – Perhaps the only way we straighten out our country is by first having the Republican Party to red-team it, and show us all the cracks in our defenses. Now… we just need to patch it.

Mon, 25 May 2026 14:44:48 -0400

I’ll read just about anything about Steve Kerr. Why Steve Kerr stayed with the Warriors

I had a little bit of an advantage though. I hadn’t heard the news, nor read the title until just now, so it was a bit of a page turner, would he stay or would he go?

Sun, 24 May 2026 22:32:27 -0400

If we adopted a four-day work week, should we liberate Monday or Friday? (Or possibly Wednesday?)

Fri, 22 May 2026 10:25:04 -0400

If you think AI is only sycophantic, I’ll let you know I just ran some deep research on an idea and the verdict came back “mediocre-but-defensible” “not [a concept] to be proud of” 😬

Fri, 22 May 2026 08:58:52 -0400

A really good episode of The Ezra Klein Show on how broken the U.S. 2-party system is.

Tue, 19 May 2026 14:15:15 -0400

Never good to open up your social feeds and find out good friends and past colleagues have been laid off. The economic situation right now is just chaos.

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:21:07 -0400

Really frustrating to look up an ebook and find it listed for a higher price than the hardcover. And the book is more than ten years old! You’re giving me less, and charging me more?

Thu, 07 May 2026 11:21:06 -0400

Perhaps I should “stake a position” on a prediction market that this year’s word of the year will be “Polycrisis”.

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:27:43 -0400

No, YOU’RE crying. 😭 #UConn

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:27:24 -0400

Really enjoyed this essay from Craig Mod criss-crossing consciousness, the broad strokes of language and meaning, the understanding of machines, the possible future upheaval of society and meditation. (via Patrick Rhone)

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:58:12 -0400

Why would the whole AI world host their conversations on a network run by a man who is their antagonistic competitor? Seems like you might want to keep that somewhere neutral?

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:10:55 -0400

Heartbreak at St. James Park tonight in the final touch of the ball. At least it was a very entertaining game, and we’re not down in aggregate going into Camp Nou. #NUFC

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:48:25 -0400

Weather station hit 70ºF for the first time this year. Still have at least 18” of snow in the backyard, though.

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:55:04 -0400

It’s an all Apple/F1 night here for me and my girls. Finally got around to watching the Apple Original Brad Pitt F1 movie(not half bad), and we’re trying to stay up till 11PM to catch the start of the new era of F1 in Australia. 🏎️

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:51:48 -0400

“The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building interventionism, undefined wars, regime change,” U.S. Defense Secretary, December 2025

The Nobel Prize 2026 is just sitting there for the taking I suppose.

Why does anyone believe anything these people have been selling since… ever?

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:15:00 -0400

Setting aside AOC for a moment, this article says what I’ve said for a long time. Dems essentially defend a status quo that has failed most of the U.S. since… the 80s? And in turn that leads to the voter just swapping in different parties until something meaningfully improves or they lose democracy.

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:06:08 -0400

Strange new world we live in.

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:17:03 -0400

Lawsuits are being prepared by corporations to get back tariffs they paid, from the US government. How do the American people get the money we paid to the corps back, when they passed along a percentage of the tariffs to all of us? And the corps are going to lower prices now… right? …Right? 🇺🇸

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:53:57 -0400

I don’t know why I like to watch curling. But I do. 🥌

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:44:06 -0400

Happy Birthday, National Weather Service. Here’s hoping you still exist in the future. Here’s the story of how a letter to Congress started the wheels rolling on the NWS.

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:42:39 -0400

For your consideration:

https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:39:57 -0400

This video is getting so much attention and it’s hard to explain why a video supposedly about renewable energy is so important to watch, even if you are well-versed… and yet I think you should invest 90 minutes into it. (Perfectly watchable at 1.5x) and share widely.