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Roaring Back
You're either a leader or a loser and leaders need to lose to become better. I've been losing. Highlights Down $2,800 sports gambling since 7/1/23 Lost 168 rating points in Chess since 8/13 Hurt foot and Achilles training for 10k Evan beat me in golf Got dumped Sports...
Let’s Make A Deal!
Meghan and I have been offered a unique opportunity by our landlord and we're turning to the brilliant minds of the SplittingTens readers to guide us. Here's the Deal There are three units in our building and we're the top one. The bottom two are Airbnbs that our...
Who Are the Rich Men?
Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North of Richmond This is the most watched video in the past week. The rich men are DC politicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro Why So Popular? Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for...
That New Apartment Living
I've lived in two Philly one-bed apartments: Old City - $1,600, 750 square feet Rittenhouse - $2,000, 810 square feet Right next to the legendary Stortz Tools is a brand new apartment building called 214 Vine (sick name). It's accepting leases so I checked out their...
The Decline of the Mall
After my haircut, I went to the Willow Grove mall to see what it looked like. I had recently read an article in the WSJ about property values plummeting and how $100 million dollar properties were being auctioned off for $9 million. This isn't news as e-commerce has...
Football is Back Tonight!
Preseason kicks off tonight with the Jets (-1.5) and Browns. Betting on preseason is as degenerate as it gets because you're working off intel about players who usually don't get to play professional football. Aside from the first drive or first quarter, which mean...
My New Podcast Rec
I am a self-described podcast fiend. About 1/3 of the podcast content I consume is sports adjacent. This is good for every time of the year except right now. Lately I've had to look elsewhere to get my fix and this weekend I stumbled upon a podcast that I am loving:...
Recording History
The other day I was going through some old things at Stortz Tools and saw what I believed to be a German passport from 1844. I could barely decipher the worn cursive writing and the parts I could make out weren't even English. It felt like I maybe stumbled upon...
Why Is Free Speech Confusing?
Back Off Banana Breath I was reading an article in the WSJ about Twitter changing its name to X. One quote was, "Those who don't see eye-to-eye with Musk's politics or interpretations of free speech will back off." This was referring to the advertisers. This gets...
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