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Yesterday, Major League Baseball agreed with its players union to ditch the four-pitch intentional walk: Major League Baseball and its Players Association agreed to replace it with an automatic walk triggered by a signal from the dugout. The curious part was its cause of death: It was sacrificed in the name of shorter games. That is curious, to say the least, because the intentional walk had neither the frequency of use nor the potential time-savings to make it an obvious target of league officials, led...

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Sigh: Your neighborhood affects how you age. My neighborhood is on its 6th day of record warmth. Sean Spicer demonstrated some of the administrations worst problems in one exchange. A top Blagojevich aide offers some advice on how to deal with a crazy boss. Could Vice President Pence unseat President Trump? David Brooks says this century is broken. NASA announced today they've discovered seven exoplanets about 40 light years from Earth that could support life. ReSharper supports unit-testing .NET Core...

Things to read later: We're heading into our fifth day of record temperatures in Chicago. Since records began in the 1870s, we've had five days above 21C—two of them this year. Tomorrow should be similarly warm. Followed, of course, by normal February weather this weekend. James Fallows takes a break from his book to warn about President Trump's assault on the media. Brian Beutler suggests FBI Director James Comey should treat Donald Trump just the way he treated Hillary Clinton, if for no other reason...

The windows at Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters are all open—yes, on February 17th—because it's 18°C outside. This is the normal high temperature for May 1st. Parker's having a bath, too, so the weather is great for him to walk home from the doggy daycare place.

Since December I've been the technical lead on an 18-person project at work, which has tanked my blogging frequency. I may return to my previous 3-posts-in-two-days velocity at some point. For now, here are some articles to read: Pilot Patrick Smith wades into the Trump travel ban, and also talks about the longest scheduled flights you can take. Charles Pierce, Jeet Heer, and Josh Marshall all boggle at President Trump's press conference earlier today. NCPC is predicting a warm spring in Chicago. That's...