las chicas son como "¿puedes sacar mi chapstick de mi cartera? Entra a la derecha, gira a la izquierda en la billetera, hasta que pases 2 nutrigrain y tomas la siguiente derecha, luego otra derecha y debería estar allí. Si pasaste el recibo de Walmart 2005, te metiste hondo.
You can't even set most gym treadmills to the speed this guy just broke the MILE world record at. They max out around 12 to 14 mph. Josh Kerr held 16.2 mph for the entire mile today: 3:42.66, breaking a record that had survived 27 years.
The pace on this new mile record is just wild.
It works out to 13.8 seconds per 100 meters. Go sprint 100m all-out right now. If you're slower than 13.8, Kerr was moving faster than your sprint, and he did it 16 times in a row without stopping.
In 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile, a barrier people once argued was the limit of human physiology. Put Bannister's race on the track next to Kerr's today, and Kerr finishes while Bannister is still 110 meters back, coming off the final bend.
The man who lost the record, Hicham El Guerrouj, set it in 1999 with no pace lights and no super spikes. Beating him took 27 years of shoe technology plus a four-month engineering project Kerr named after the goal time itself. The margin: 0.47 seconds.
And El Guerrouj isn't finished. His 1500m record, set the year before on the same track, turned 28 this week. Only three men since have even broken 3:27. One record fell today. The harder one is still standing.
patterns I’ve noticed in great engineers:
• they think in systems, not events
• they reduce problems before trying to solve them
• they obsess over fundamentals more than tools
• they can explain complex things without sounding clever
• they build small, test early, break things on purpose
• they respect physics, constraints, and reality
• they document their thinking, not just results
• they care about edge cases because that’s where truth hides
• they borrow ideas across disciplines without ego
• they have taste, and they know when something feels wrong
• they value reliability over novelty
• they keep learning long after they’re “qualified”
none of this is flashy.
none of this trends well online.
but this is what quietly compounds
into real mastery over time.
Kevin: Did you have any kids?
Bird Lady: No. Oh, l wanted them. But the man I loved fell out of love with me. That broke my heart. And whenever the chance to be loved came along again, I ran away from it. I stopped trusting people.
Kevin: No offense, but that seems like sort of a dumb thing to do.
Bird Lady: I was afraid of getting my heart broken again. You see, sometimes you can trust a person, and then, when things are down, they forget about you.
Kevin: Maybe they're just too busy. Maybe they don't forget about you, but they forget to remember you. l don't think people mean to forget. l think it just happens.
Bird Lady: I'm just afraid if I do trust someone, I'll get my heart broken again.
Kevin: I understand that. l used to have this really nice pair of rollerblades. l was afraid if l wore them, l'd wreck them. So l kept them in a box. Do you know what happened?
Bird Lady: No.
Kevin: I outgrew them. I never wore them once outside. l just wore them in my room a couple times.
Bird Lady: A person's heart and a person's feelings are very different than skates.
Kevin: Well, they're kind of the same thing. lf you aren't going to use your heart, then what's the difference if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it'll be like my rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it won't be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose.
Bird Lady: A bit of truth in there somewhere.
Rest in peace, Brenda Fricker (1945-2026) 🕊️
🎞️ Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
🎥 Dir. Chris Columbus