Princess – To Be Determined

Reads

Recode: Why Ken Burns won’t leave PBS for HBO

“I’m at the dance with them that brung me and I think I’m leavin’ with them,” Burns said on the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

“Every single film I’ve made for public television has been my director’s cut.”

Onto my watch list. Thank you, commencement speaker!

Apple: Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice

Skip to the bottom and just listen to the audio samples and ithe improvements in each version.
The last set is almost on par with a generic audiobook narrator.

I’m still working through The Familiar Volume 2, and will then have to power through volume 3 to catch up there and start reading Volume 4 in October. And tacked on The Lost Weekend by for a book club.

Adventures

Renaissance Rooftop!

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Renaissance Person was awesome: how to eat clams & hula!

Princess came to visit!

and she slept a lot

Haiku Guys and Gals Book Launch!

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Views

This was neat. I’d seen the list once or twice over the past couple years, but I didn’t know it’d become legitimized and is now such a Thing™.

TSN Original: Surfacing

Since his retirement in 2011 after a series of concussions, Paul Kariya has been a veritable ghost, keeping his distance from a game that he once ennobled with his gentlemanly play, his speed and his scoring touch. In November, Kariya will join former linemate Teemu Selanne when they are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, thrusting him once again into the spotlight. After a long – probably too long wait – Paul Kariya surfaces.

It’s tough to hear what Kariya went through, but I’m glad he’s speaking up about it. He was one of the few non-Penguins I liked as a kid.

Like it says: odds & ends; I’ll try to post this once a week to track things I read, quick updates, thoughts, links, etc.

Previously

The Penguins won the Stanley Cup!

The Pittsburgh Penguins are back-to-back champions.

Have I mentioned the Penguins won the cup?

I might be a little excited about all of this.

Back-to-Back Champs!

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Princess is ecstatic.

Fri-YAY!

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Malteses everywhere. #RaiseThePup!

Listens

Natalie Imbruglia – Torn

This popped up on the radio when I was in DC for my sister’s wedding.
20 years makes a big difference. I’d always change the station when it came on in the 90s, this time I made sure I figured out who it was and finally got around to downloading it last night. She’s pretty good at covers.

Reads

I finished David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish.

"Don’t fight the darkness. Don’t even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes." – David Lynch

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Words

I jotted down the story of how I started using fountain pens. There’s a Bill Murray cameo, naturally.

Scenes

American Gods, Episode 7
This might be my favorite episode so far.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Episode 6

Definitely better than last week, although there was a suspicious lack of certain characters and storylines…
Into the Badlands

I watched the first two episodes of this. It’s surprisingly cool and catchy. I’m definitely going to keep watching over Summer while there’s not much else on. 1
The Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup Championship Parade

“What can we say about this group of hockey players here? I just think there isn’t a group I’ve been around that knows how to win more than these guys. … These guys are fierce competitors. They just know how to win, they just find ways to get it done. We couldn’t be more proud of them. … I said a little something last year, seeing if we could do this again. I wonder if we could repeat, or three-peat, should I say?”

What a leader, possibly the best coach in Penguins history. There’s no reason it can’t happen again; if they could get through this season with all the injuries, anything is possible.
All Access: Quest for the Stanley Cup

I binged four episodes last night. Starts at the conference finals and episode 4 ended with Nashville taking Game 4. So tonight’s episode should be pretty good. There was a great bit in episode 4 with Sullivan and his dad playing cards in their back yard.

Another fun fact: both Laviolette and Sullivan named their dogs Stanley.