Ben Smith

The highest-rated watches (based on Metacritic): West Side Story (2021) District 9 *His Girl Friday (no Metacritic score, but assumed to be highly-rated) The lowest-rated watches: The Marvels Deadpool & Wolverine The Creator

Only watched 14 films in 2024. Started with "District 9" and ended with "Rogue One".

At Ottawa Consensus, Glebe C has been eliminated despite a 5-0 record. Meanwhile, three 2-3 teams are still in contention.

This latest NYT puzzle is just going to be dad jokes. Shamefully, I figured it out without revealing any letters in the answer.

Zorse #2 “Advice about what to do after a campaign fundraiser” 🦄

Letters of the alphabet that have a “-pop” Wikipedia article: A, C, H, I, J, K, L, M, P, Q, T, V

Monaco, Baku, Singapore, and Vegas are true street circuits (have daily traffic, sidewalks, storefronts, etc). The others are layouts where cars are allowed to drive, but nobody uses them for a commute. Jeddah has banked curves, for crying out loud!

This has vibes of the Button/Alonso McLaren years: so much talent squandered in a bad car.

If the graphic used Stroll instead of Leclerc, there would be an apropos connection of “Belgian mothers”

The last 3 years have been driving over steel plates and chicaning to temporary roads. I dread what “construction is set to begin” means.

H2H tiebreakers double-count 1 game over all others. If you *exclude* the match between tied teams, 1 team will be ahead on wins. Once the match is added, both team are tied. Then you count that match a 2nd time to give the team with fewer wins (vs everyone else) the edge.

The boards just look like a geographic typo.

UTS continues their streak of always winning a final when their opponent is west of them (east, not so much)

Congratulations to UTS on their 7th Reach national title!

UTS 470, Renert 290

Kids these days have not taken up the tradition of turning Reach mic checks into non-sequitur monologues.

With a UTS-Renert final, this is the first-ever consecutive national final rematch

Next up is UTS and St. George’s. They previously met in the 2011 play-in round; for a higher match, we have to go back to the 2002 final.

Renert is the first Alberta school in the Schoolreach era to make 2 finals (Lorne Jenken and O’Leary also did it on CBC)