I encountered a fellow American online who was insisting, in apparent good faith, that there is no such thing as a person anywhere in the world who doesn’t recognize the names of all 50 US states as easily as they recognize France or China, and so there’s never any need to clarify that you mean in the US.

My fellow Americans, that is not true. When people here in Europe ask where I’m from, and I say Massachusetts rather than Boston, 80% of the time I can visibly see the gears turning as they try to decide whether I just made up that word to mess with them. Nobody is talking about Massachusetts on the Estonian or the Nepalese news. Nobody outside of the US has ever massed a chusetts and they never will.

Reindeer are a little unusual among deer. In most species, only males grow antlers, but in reindeer, these big old head bones are a perfectly normal feature for females, too! And how and why they grow antlers is rather interesting...

Getting in the holiday spirit. The things I wear for my Twitch stream…

Hello Mexico City!

https://som.yale.edu/story/2023/lessons-discount-window-march-2023-bank-failures How my better 3/4 is spending her time…

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By far my favorite brewery in Bend, Oregon: Crux Fermentation Project took an old Aamco building and made a stellar brewery with amazing views of the Cascades

Had not totally planned wearing the Spelling Bee to the rose garden in Portland - but sorta fits!

Thank you Vancouver for the fun!

Why hello Vancouver sunset!

Five years ago today we unleashed #spellingbee on NYT Games

Did you know the five year anniversary of when we launched Spelling Bee is coming up next Tuesday? https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2023-05-04&l=hegilnt&p=291&r=Genius&c=c8a2b66f3803fc825f2c812e52720831&smid=na-share

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/ai-chatbots-hallucinatation.html we are so not ready for this

https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2023-04-26&l=adinotx&p=145&r=Genius&c=1737bfcafff2c8d1670e85c543ed5fda&smid=na-share Been a long time

@DocTellMeMore I miss slightly all the old bars with batting cages LOL. I didn’t see Old Style anywhere but maybe I didn’t look hard enough. Love the new areas and statues outside of 3rd base, and the concourses are so much nicer than the dark walkways I remember circa 1991. Love that park.

Enjoyed Chicago last week, but this is the view I will enjoy the most - Wrigley Field during a day game.

@DocTellMeMore went to Thursday and Fridays games before heading back to NY. First time to Wrigley in over 30 years. Still an amazing stadium. Entered Thursday in short sleeves and left freezing LOL.

Carpet of pink cherry blossoms on n Central Park

We’ll be doing our Guees the Set: April Heroes giveaway for Out of the Park Baseball where you can win a copy of the game - starting at 4pm ET https://twitch.tv/EVCinNYC2 #ootpbaseball #ootp24

I’ve loved baseball forever and have to say how much I enjoy Out of the Park Baseball 24 - it’s really the best sim out there. I stream a ton of it on Twitch. They’ve released a free version on mobile today and highly suggest you give it a go!

iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ootp-baseball-go-24/id1584943444 and Android Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com2us.ootpbbgo24.android.google.global.normal