Edward Conard

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Tom Terrific + Tampa Bay Bucs SB odds went from 60/1 to 14/1 via Sports Illustrated read

“We all know that Brady loves to utilize his tight ends and he will have two athletic playmakers at that position who could flourish under his tutelage, Cameron Brate and O.J. Howard.”

Iron Mike is on CAMEO sign him up

Is This the Most Terrifying Wave Ever Filmed at Nazare? via Surfer

Here’s What a Googol-to-One Gear Ratio Looks Like via DIGG more

Daniel Bruin’s device has a gear reduction of one googol (that’s a 1, followed by 100 zeroes), meaning you’d need “more energy than the entire universe has” to spin the final gear once.

Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands via Kottke read

Space Shuttle thermal tiles conduct heat so poorly that after being in a 2200 °F oven for hours, you can pick them up with your bare hands only seconds after they come out, still glowing hot.

Billions Season 5 premiers Sun, 5/3/20 via Showtime tune in

The people want more WAGS

An Exhaustive Guide to Streaming via The Ringer peruse
Netflix optimizer: the full list of genre codes study

Recommendations:

HBO

  • Hobbs & Shaw
  • Fast 5
  • Casino Royale
  • The Town
  • Barry

Amazon Prime

  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Netflix

  • Icarus
  • Ex Machina
  • Blade Runner
  • Step Brothers
  • Kingpin

Hulu

  • Creed II
  • Bumblebee
What the hell is Quibi?

The mobile-centric short-form streaming service founded by former Disney + DreamWorks chief Jeffrey Katzenberg w. billions in backing launches Mon, 4/6 w. projects from Steven Spielberg, Paul Feig, Chrissy Teigen, and others in the form of scripted and unscripted stories in 10-minute chunks. Free trial available now. read

A running list of all Quibi show trailers via AV Club review
Screen Time Is Dangerous For Babies, Kids, and Teens But Is It the Screen? via Slate read

“Until more large-scale projects like Rasmussen’s and Radesky’s are completed, we’re left mostly with correlational data to guide our decisions about screen time… It’s not so much the screen that causes problems, but the fact that it often supplants opportunities to engage in richer activities instead.”

Your next computer is an iPad Pro via Mac Rumors specs

Rem Koolhaas Makes the Case for Leaving Cities Behind @ Guggenheim via BBG  read

Countryside, the Future” runs thru Fri, 8/14/20

“The inevitability of Total Urbanization must be questioned,” Koolhaas writes in an accompanying catalog, “and the countryside must be rediscovered as a place to resettle, to stay alive.” This notion will have particular resonance in the age of the new coronavirus, as urban crowds have become synonymous with contagion. The Guggenheim is closed until further notice for this very reason, making Koolhaas’s message strikingly urgent.” 

Simon de Pury aka “the Mick Jagger of art auctions,” interactive print books for sale buy
“Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus” via Vox

Summer Dreaming: Aaron Franklin, pit master legend and Franklin BBQ owner, will build you a custom pit. specs

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Sneak peek of our Franklin BBQ PITS — they are finally rolling out this fall. We have donated our last prototype to @austindames. The bidding starts tomorrow at 9pm and ends on September 5th — to coincide with the amazing #yougrillgirl event. More info tomorrow at 9pm…..signup for the list at franklinbbqpits.com

A post shared by Franklin Barbecue (@franklinbbq) on Aug 25, 2019 at 7:55pm PDT

Where would Andy be  bunkering up right now?

In Montauk at Eothen. Eothen, which means “from the east”, is the 30-acre compound purchased by Andy and his partner Paul Morrissey in 1972 for $225,000. JCrew CEO Mickey Drexler bought it in 2007 from Morrisey for $27M and sold it (minus the horse farm) to billionaire art collector Adam Lindemann in 2015 for nearly $50M. Link

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