Shawn Harrington

Buffalo raised. Girl dad. Hockey fan. Bowhunter. Continuously learning.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Band of Brothers (2001) plays like a ten-hour film, following Easy Company from training to the end of the war, and the way it holds that continuity makes it feel like one complete masterpiece.

[Adam @adampensel]

He’s so good man. Some players make a move they pre commit to. But the truly great ones make a move and the game is so slow for them, they then watch and find the opening. Helenius dekes to his right and watches the entire time, and sees the 5 hole. This is high high level stuff.

[Justin Brady @JustinBrady]

Hosting @IowaPod has given me unprecedented access to this years election, and I believe the @realDonaldTrump endorsement of @RandyFeenstra, if he gets the nomination over @ZachLahn, guarantees a @RobSandIA win.

This doesn’t reflect how I will vote, I’ll keep that private, but here’s my PR guy logic:

Feenstra is remarkably unpopular. On the ground, no one has a clue what he stands for, and many people can’t stand him—I have no idea why and would have loved the chance to speak with him on @IowaPod but he declined. I think it’s just the overall feeling he’s not being himself. Voters can often see authenticity.

People are very passionate about @ZachLahn and @adamsteen. @eddieandrews is very loved too, he just didn’t get the make recognition this year. Their base can talk about why they like them, and issues they align with.

But I still have yet to find a single person, not ONE, that actually likes Feenstra. Of those that say they will vote for him, they always say, “I wish there was someone better, but I guess I’ll vote for him.”

Feenstra didn’t do well in his town halls, with a few famous clips going viral of him struggling to answer simple audience questions.

@RobSandIA on the other hand is an absolute force. His ads are fire, he answers questions, he talks to people who oppose him, he’s talented and relaxed on camera, and he will absolutely obliterate Feenstra in debates and media from an optics standpoint. Sand hit nearly every podcast and did interviews with even the smallest citizen journalists. Like or dislike him, his campaign has been absolutely perfect and he oozes authenticity.

A @ZachLahn vs @RobSandIA race would be a nail biter. Both are authentic. Both are great on camera. Both answer direct questions with detail. Both have an aggressive ground game. Both are PR masters. No doubt a Lahn / Sand run would have been razor thin margins, possibly requiring a vote recount.

But….

…if this POTUS endorsement carries weight, ironically this November @IowaGOP will have POTUS to thank for making Iowa purple, handing the election to @iowademocrats.

❤️💙🇺🇸

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@SabresClassics This had to be reshared. 😂

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

One more ‘Murph’ in the books. The pull-ups never get easier.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@WGR550 The way this season went, I'd rather keep most of that locker room & culture intact.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@adampensel All the diving holds me back from fully rooting for 'em. Otherwise, they've got a fanbase much more deserving of a cup run over who's left.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@MattKopnak Mostly agree. As much as folks like Jarmo's aggressiveness, I wouldn't want him tinkering too much with this group right now.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@SabresLive @BuffaloSabres Core group of veterans came together mid-season to change the mindset and culture. The up-and-comers are benefitting from that and we'll find out if FA's think different of BUF.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@J_Potter Worth having this over any year of the last 15.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

19k were in the arena with all these fans outside for the watch party. That's community. #LetsGoBuffalo

[BuffaloWeather @weather_buffalo]

Buffalo is underrated

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

Montreal won both game 7’s while getting heavily outshot. Goaltending was solid and they definitely caught other breaks tonight.

[Ryan Miller @RyanMiller3039]

A lot to be proud of @BuffaloSabres

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@WBEN @MattRichWarren Accomplished so much this year. They deserved this.

[WBEN NewsRadio 930AM @WBEN]

Respect.

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

Game 7 and we are tied!!!

[Shawn Harrington @ShawnpatrickH]

@BradleyGelber Luuuuuk.