Chris Grewe

Husband, dad, solutions architect, former politico.

[Rory Cooper @rorycooper]

We need to bring Angel Hernandez out of retirement so we can watch him just get trounced by ABS.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

@DavidAFrench On the left, ball not secure, going to the ground.

On the right, ball secure, knee touching ground after getting both feet down with said ball secure.

Unpopular opinion, both calls are actually correct.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

#NotDeadYet

We aren’t going to do many medical updates on here, but a bunch of friends have requested a status report and kindly asked what to pray for, so a few quick observations…

* Some folks are very helpful — such as our tireless team at MD Anderson. We were accepted into a clinical trial at Houston’s amazing cancer hospital around New Year’s. We’ve just completed our first week of experimental chemo.

* Some folks are less helpful — such as whatever jackwagons signed me up for tickets to loads of upcoming Nickelback events. (Although I do tip my cap to the cheery optimism of the dudes who bought me concert tickets for April “2027.”)

* Some folks have a heavenly bedside manner — such as the MD Anderson research nurses who’ve helped dial in my anti-nausea mix of drugs, radically reducing my daily puke count (“DPC”) over the past 72 hours.

* Some folks have a less heavenly bedside manner – such as my tender(?) bride who in the wee hours last night exclaimed: “Can you imagine if we make big progress on both the nausau and the spinal tumor pain?! All we’d have left is your increasingly ugly mug.”
(She’s a keeper…)

More fundamentally, please hear Melissa’s and my gratitude for the outpouring of love and kindness over the three weeks since my diagnosis. We are blessed in so many ways, so I’m not surprised at how moved we’ve been by these prayers, but do know that we’ve been very moved.

I’m #NotDeadYet (hat tip: Monty Python), so let me close with three prayer requests:
1. That our kids will trust in the Lord‘s Fatherly kindness and sovereign timing.
2. ⁠That the spinal tumor and the nausea can be managed enough to make me a moderately-chipper patient, finding energy to soldier well with my neighbors at the blood draws and drudgery.
3. ⁠That I will be able – to borrow the old Puritan phrase – to “redeem the time.” That is, to try to serve and love our neighbors with little bits of work — or writing and speaking projects here and there. Time is the great equalizer, but not all time is equal — you can play a lot of basketball in the last 60 seconds (especially if you’re as newly dominant in basketball as Nebraska). We’re going to give cancer a run for its money and see what can be learned in the process. As we figure out the rhythms of chemo, I’m going to endeavor to do whatever work I’ve been given to do…and try to love and serve (and not puke).

More to come….

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

@BenSasse Absolutely devastated to read this. Please know that you've been an inspiration to many, and I've been blessed to be among them.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

@EsotericCD There's only one way this can end.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

Never do business with @ATT. They won't talk to your estate, and they'll end up extracting an undeserved price from your family after you're gone.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

I'll go a step further and say it's not even the first time we've invented a technology with a mind of its own. Again, have you met printers?

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

People say large language models are a watershed because, for the first time in human history, we've invented a technology we cannot control - but we haven't been able to control printers for 40 years.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

Scott Walker Jr.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

As he drops out, DeSantis endorses Trump as ‘clearly superior’ to Biden & explicitly rejects Haley as a throwback to the old GOP guard.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

What the fax?! I guess faxing isn’t dead 🤷‍♂️ Use Dropbox Fax by @DropboxSign to send and receive faxes from anywhere. #DropboxFax https://t.co/TDrSLdEqGq

[Thoughts of Dog @dog_feelings]

SOMEONE LEFT. A FULL PLATE OF COOKIES. AND A GLASS OF MILK. RIGHT BY THE FIREPLACE FOR ME. I AM NOT KIDDING. WHAT A NIGHT

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

Next thing you know, he's sneaking away from the press through the woods behind his house and popping up for a contract signing near a harbor somewhere.

Shout out to the three other political nerds who are going to get this and find it funny.

[Jon Heyman @JonHeyman]

Can confirm Shohei Ohtani is not en route to Toronto and is home in SoCal @BNightengale on it

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

@NumbersMuncher The look he gives JD when he's trying to run him down with the model plane is an all-timer. Great episode.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

Coming next week: "I never said I was against the Jones Act."

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"I'm against the Jones Act" - @VivekGRamaswamy

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

Dear @GooglePixel_US UX designers,

Please stop it with the moving buttons. I'm hitting Mark as Read on a messages popover (so far so good), and all of a sudden, auto-replies appear in the same spot and I'm accidentally answering what's meant for someone else? Dude!

Thanks!

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

This would roughly be the end times for Twitter. Also, a brilliant disaster for @SimonWhistler to eventually cover in one of his many podcasts.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away.

How does the medicine taste? 😂😂

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

GA4 feels like a product that was made for the express purpose of keeping a product team employed rather than to fill some missing value proposition to an end user.

Go get that bag engineers, but also develop GA4.1 with an understandable UX that matches UA while you're at it.

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Me: “I wonder how many people visited my blog. Let's find out on GA4”

GA4:

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

Awful advice. I have my career because I fell in love at 25 and my wife helped me find my calling.

[Tim Kempton @kempton_timothy]

Hot take:

Don’t fall in love from 22-29, there’s to much to lose.

Your career will thank you.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

@emzanotti We once had a dinosaur alarm clock, and by that I mean my then two-year old boy who would wake us up by sneaking into our room and roaring.

It was cute until his little sister came along and was much less amused.

[Chris Grewe @ChrisGrewe]

@LeonHWolf Otto Graham. The debate starts at 3, but I think you've identified the favorite for that slot.