Axodys 10C Edition

Kennie A. Calvert, 59, was arrested in an unrelated incident Sunday at the Spokane Valley Home Depot for suspicion of shoplifting. She told police she started the fire as a distraction so she could steal a six-pack of paper towels, a bag of Miracle-Gro, a roll of black wire and a potted plant, according to a search warrant document filed Wednesday in Spokane County District Court.

The fire happened at the Home Depot I frequent and luckily I haven't needed its services recently. Apparently the roll of wire might be worth $400, but my mind absolutely boggles at the stupidity of this scheme and the risk to value disparity. This woman literally asked for help finding flammables and accidentally dropped the lighter she used to start the fire as she reported it to an employee!

Pretty neat that Archive 81 has a Spokane and Gonzaga connection through Mandi Price. Looking forward to watching another episode tonight.

It sounds like Apple has already begun removing some of the offending apps from their App Store, but what a predictable and gross state of affairs.

Classic Peter King article from 1990 on what it was like to travel across the country with the late great football broadcasting legend on his personal bus. Truly one of a kind.

Turns out the Dune star did in fact have a brief controller painting content creator side hustle in his youth!

Excellent article about the long term impact of the header on player brain health in soccer and the best suggestion I've heard to date for how to improve things: make them illegal outside the penalty boxes. This would keep the exciting scoring plays around while eliminating all the unnecessary and usually ineffectual heading around the midfield that happens after long kicks out of the goal. Hopefully a rule change of this nature can be trialed and studied in a tournament setting in the near future.

This is a great discussion of the ending of Season 1 of Loki and I'm in complete agreement with the conclusions. There may be recency bias involved, but I feel like Loki is probably my favorite of the Disney MCU series¹ to date. Tom Hiddleston is great and the themes and philosophical questions raised by the story are both timeless and timely.

1. Wandavision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier were really good at times, but also had a few flaws- the latter in particular.

Coming up with a modern Spokane flag has been in the works for a few years and I'm so happy to see the final result. Derek Landers' distinctive and vibrant design has all the elements I wanted to see: a sun honoring the Salish people who first inhabited the area, a dynamic take on the Spokane River, and green for the trees and surrounding land.

Jalen Suggs game winning buzzer beater 3 was amazing, but the sequence where he blocked UCLA forward Cody Riley's shot at the rim, chased down the rebound, dribbled twice and then hit Drew Timme in stride with a full court bounce pass assist through traffic for a dunk was absolutely transcendent! What a player, what a game!

I think I was barely even aware of the U.S. men's team's success at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, but this is an amazing aural history of a team that represents the beginning of the USMNT's most successful period.