December Talking Meme: Day 14

For this day, smellslikefudge asked me to talk about Chicago Sky's epic semifinals choke.

I don't have a lot to say here, just that I was sad about it :( :( They had a decent lead during that last game too! Given that they managed to pull it together during last year's playoffs I was hoping for less slips like that from them, but it was not to be. I guess we'll see during the free agency period how much of the team will be around for next year's attempt?

(Now that I think about it, there's probably data on what number seed entering the playoffs has the highest likelihood of winning the whole thing, hmmm. Could be interesting to look at.)

December Talking Meme: Day 15

For today ghostsquidsandspacebees asked "most interesting historical or history-adjacent thing learned?"

In no particular order,

• Dance Of The Flaming Arseholes
• I've been reading Romance Of The Three Kingdoms and at one point a dude eats his own eyeball. No one makes him do it, he just does it.
• NYC's government structure was completely different before 1989 with the City Council basically doing nothing of fundamental importance
• So many parts of this book about the OSS, the precursor to the CIA.