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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 06/10/2026

this is accurate. pops up in the fight scene in Dazed and Confused, for example.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 05/10/2026

and also what the specific harms might be

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 05/10/2026

actually, chronologically it would have been this www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3g...

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 05/10/2026

someone already took the Twilight Zone movie opener, so i'll go with www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mioe...

youtube.com

Tales from the Darkside Intro 80's

YouTube video by Derek S

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 04/10/2026

love this and really wish dana farber would pick a weekend for this that wasn't directly after the monktoberfest every year. if there's one thing i would walk on behalf of, it's the jimmy fund.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 04/10/2026

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 03/10/2026

conference week as measured by resting heart rate

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 02/10/2026

also learned that, in an effort to sway the results of the game, the ten year old slept in her green sox hat. and that after we lost, she's reluctant to wear it again.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 02/10/2026

WIFE: i know you're sad the Red Sox lost, but would you be interested in watching non-Red Sox post-season baseball? 10 YEAR OLD: YES! we have to root for whoever's playing the yankees! ME: [tears up]

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 02/10/2026

the weather during the monktoberfest was almost 80, sunny and summer-like. at my annual post-monktoberfest lunch, meanwhile, it’s 60, dark and now spitting rain. poseidon’s back.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 02/10/2026

to our sponsors, to our speakers, to our vendors, to our staff but most of all to our attendees: thank you. we could not do this without every one of you.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 01/10/2026

same vein as Jackie MacMullan, one of the great sportswriters from the Boston Globe, who was unable to get drinks, lunch or dinner with male athletes as her male colleagues did for fear of it being perceived the wrong way. she made it work in spite of that, but it was a handicap.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

i'm sad but the ten year old is going to be absolutely crushed

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

Gray both this year and for his career has slightly better numbers against lefties, but i assume they're doing this because the short porch in right?

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

of course it's gray and drizzly in portland. it's time for the @monktoberfest.com.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

in case you’re a little fuzzy on “the whole good/bad thing,” this is bad

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

not quite peak, but monktoberfest friends should see some good color

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

monktoberfest hat: activated

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

Sonny Gray, Red Sox Nation turns its lonely eyes to you

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

had the parental go ahead to let the 10 year old stay up late and finish this game. glad that i declined and put her to bed instead.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 30/09/2026

really don't like Schlittler, but as a Sox fan you have to tip your cap. he absolutely kicked our teeth in. kid was nails.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

and after all of the crazy shit that has happened this season, nothing seems impossible. so the ten year old and i will dutifully be geared up for the game tonight with our sox hats, and all i can say is go sox.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

but injuries aren't an excuse as they say in baseball, and certainly every team has them. so if you're a betting person, the yankees are the better bet. but we have at least a chance, a chance i never would have dreamed we'd get after those first awful months and all of the injuries.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

the yankees are down judge, which is a huge loss. but we're like a walking MASH unit, and the roster which could have had a power hitting 2B, a pinch hitting 1B/C who hit 10 home runs in the last month, two very good set up guys and an ace starter instead has none of them.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

we bite the bullet and trade a very good pitcher for a guy who was hitting well, and in that guy's second at bat he gets smoked, breaks his wrist and is out for the season. down the stretch, our best hitter gets drilled on the hand and while he's going to play this round, i don't expect much.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

our season has been insane. our ace throws a couple of games, gets shelled and is out for the balance of the regular season. our theoretical best hitter comes down with a rare hand problem, misses most of the season.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

through early june, it looked like a lost summer, and those first months were the worst since the horrors of the bobby valentine season. but then, because you can't predict baseball, the red sox turned their season around in a way no one had ever seen before. it was magical, and here we are.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

with the playoffs about to begin, it's worth me saying i'm just happy we're still playing baseball. our starting pitching is good, but new york's is better. our offense, meanwhile, was the worst in MLB over the last month. and all games will be played in NY. but it's baseball, and you never know.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 29/09/2026

getting the ten year old excited for tomorrow

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 28/09/2026

coincidentally introduced the ten year old to army of darkness this morning. big hit.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 28/09/2026

the @monktoberfest.com welcome cruise normally is a couple of hours and gets back a little after 8 PM. wonder if i can get them to shorten it to twenty minutes.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 26/09/2026

i'm not crying you're crying. my ten year old loved this as well.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 26/09/2026

put differently, it's t-minus two days until the playoffs start and all the people who have followed me via tech starter packs like "Cloud Native" or "Java Dev Community" and expect this to be a tech account rather than a baseball one find out that they've made a huge mistake

static.klipy.com

I've Made A Huge Mistake

ALT: I've Made A Huge Mistake

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 26/09/2026

much respect to paez, who can barely crack 90 MPH, got smoked during his last MLB appearance and yet made a good offense in the cubs look silly while eating vital innings and giving the bullpen more time off.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 25/09/2026

i'm just going to choose to believe we're saving our runs for the postseason

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 23/09/2026

there’s a certain symmetry to the same narrator reading the audiobook for both steinbeck’s travels with charley and king’s salems’ lot, as the former’s focused on rural america in 1962 and the latter is nominally about vampires but actually a commentary on small town life in the 1970’s

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 22/09/2026

i've probably read books more depressing than Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, but i can't remember when

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 21/09/2026

the only way through is together

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 21/09/2026

it's legit game changing how many regular tasks i can do from my phone now: gather data, test hypotheses and generate charts. one of my biggest pet peeves, in fact, is that i need Claude's Dispatch feature to fetch data and generate RedMonk-style ggplot2 charts, but voice mode doesn't work with it.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 21/09/2026

look, if you would stop fleecing us in trades we might be in contention for the division title and i wouldn't have to worry about the wild card schedule

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 20/09/2026

welp, looks like the ipad is coming on the cruise again this year

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 20/09/2026

would have preferred to get in with a win, but thank you atlanta. if you told late may sog that the red sox were going to the playoffs, he would have said you were crazy. time to go look at the postseason schedule to see if i need to bring my ipad on the monktoberfest cruise again.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 20/09/2026

somewhat incredibly, in spite of being left entirely unsupervised this weekend, i managed to not blow myself up, set anything on fire (that i didn't want to be on fire) or fall off a ladder while finishing our new woodshed.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 20/09/2026

today would have been my friend Alex’s birthday. he is missed.

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steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 18/09/2026

i would like to hear more about what i can do to support this rare species by boarding one or more than one in our house. the dog could use some competition.

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