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Ted Lasso Season Finale

I had to go look up the full poem from the Ted Lasso season finale.

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

 and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

—Mary Oliver

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Analogy : Thinking :: Motor : Car

I greatly enjoyed listening to this lecture about cognition and analogical thinking. Jump to 13:43 for when he starts talking.

Update:

After the lecture I was scrolling YouTube again and I saw that this is the author of Gödel, Escher, Bach. Which, (A) makes sense, and (B) has honestly been on my list to read for more than a decade.

I guess I need to finally dive into that massive tome... maybe. We'll see.

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Don't mind me. Just coding some on the blog. Here are my dogs as compensation for cluttering your feed.

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The House of the Vestals by Steven Saylor

The House of the Vestals by Steven Saylor
Bookshop | Amazon

I've read this series since high school. I picked this one back up randomly and it was lovely to return to the world of Gordianus the Finder. This wasn't the one I meant to pick up, as this one is a series of short stories, but it was still a fun and quick read.

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Borderlands (2024)

I've never played Borderlands. I had no idea what was going on in this movie. But the line up of Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black and Kevin Hart is truly shocking.

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Mayday (2026)

Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh is a powerful duo and they overcome what is otherwise a mediocre action comedy.

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