And now we are hear

Our vacationing crew likes The Rippingtons, so I played some of their music through CarPlay on the rental car’s dashboard while sitting in the Lihue Costco parking lot. The above came up.

How to enjoy bad but not worse weather

Dig the webcam at Poipu beach, on the south side of Kauai, near where I’ll be for a week, starting tomorrow. Also, the turtles, in calmer weather.

I love me a water matrix printer

This fountain in Moravian Square (Moravské náměstí), in the Czechian city of Brno, prints the time in falling water.

Two stories, one slo-mo tragedy

Radio World: How AM and FM station totals have changed in ten years. And Cord Cutter News’ story about it.

I dunno why, but I did give it an image

This was my most-visited blog post yesterday.

MVP thoughts

I nominate Tyrese Haliburton for MVP. He hasn't played at all this year, because he's out with a hamstring injury he suffered when the Pacers (our Indiana home team) were neck-and-neck with the OKC Thunder in the final championship game. This season, without Haliburton, the Pacers are among the league's worst. Why? No Halliburton.

And we have a controlled study of sorts. Boston lost its star, Jayson Tatum, to the same Achilles injury that dropped Haliburton, and then the Celtics stayed close to the top of the league without Tatum and three valuable players who left last summer. So Haliburton was clearly a lot more valuable to his team than was Tatum. (Who is back and making Boston look even scarier.)

By the way, before the season, I picked the Knicks (my lifelong fave) to win the championship. They're kinda meh right now. So, in the same way I think Tyrese Halliburton is the most valuable player this year (just given the delta between his presence and absence), I say the same about Tom Thibodeau, the coach fired by the Knicks after the team's good run last year. (Hell, they beat the Celtics in the playoffs.) This year, the Knicks aren't as good, with essentially the same team and a different coach. So my vote for coach of the year goes to Thibs (who, by the way, has been NBA Coach of the Year twice. So we know he doesn't suck.)

Even more after we die

Population growth is slowing.

Where it's Sunday all week

Pew Research: A quarter of all radio stations in America are "faith based."

The what  behind the who

My DNA (according to 23andMe, which still exists) breakdown goes like this:

48.3% Swedish (mostly central and northwest Götaland)
5.2% Norwegian
17.1% Irish (mostly central and northern)
10.8% Belgian, Rhinelander and Southern Dutch (Hesse)
7.9% Scottish (mostly Glasgow City)
6.7% English (mostly Greater London)
2.6% Dutch and Northern German (Northwestern states)
0.7% Northern Italian and Maltese
0.4% Welsh
0.2% Egyptian and Southern Levantine

For what it's worth—
Mom was Swedish. Her parents (Sponberg, Oman) were from Swedish Immigrant families who came over in the late 1800s to homestead in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Pop's mom was Irish on her mother's side. Her parents (McLaughlin, Trainor) came over in the early 1800s. And she was German on her father's side (Rung, Englert). That couple emigrated from Alsace-Lorraine. Pop's father was of early American stock (Searls/Searles/Sarles, Bixby, Reed, Allen, Johnson)

Only one of the surnames I just mentioned is among my 1500+ DNA relatives listed by 23andMe. That was an Englert I wrote to (inside 23andMe who never wrote back.