Apropos of nothing, I’d like to take a moment of your time and share this framed visualization I have in my office.

I like it, because it’s an absolute triumph in chart design, and it reminds me that screenshots of gray-backgrounded Excel scatter plots just ain’t it. It tells me to aim higher.

These days, however, it has a more literal connection with current events: a wannabe emperor foolishly sending his armies into the cold against a people born of the cold.

They should have sent a poet

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Listen, I know David Lynch is probably the main death on your timeline today, but the dagger in my secret heart is Bob Uecker.

For those who don’t knew who he was, his main contribution to my life was announcing the Milwaukee Brewers. His voice is synonymous with summers as a kid, and he had a way of putting a smile on your face during one of the most boring sports out there. And the Brewers were *bad * in the 80s and 90s. Real bad. But he made it worth it to listen.

We’ll miss you, Ueck