"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway
The only comparison worth making is to yourself from yesterday.
- @SahilBloom in today's Curiosity Chronicle newsletter
BRAND new Si Woo Kim story:
There’s a solid Korean bbq restaurant I always go to when I’m in Detroit. I text Si Woo, wanna grab dinner tonight at this place? He goes sure.
He searches the name of the restaurant on Google Maps, and without much thinking starts driving. But before it’s too late, he realizes that he’s about to go across the US border into Canada! There was a restaurant under the SAME NAME closer to him in Canada 😂
He doesn’t have a passport, just his wallet. He tries to turn back, but it’s already too late, it’s a one way and there are multiple signs telling him he can’t turn back.
He drives to the gate and talks to the officer. I’m driving to dinner with a friend, I came here by accident. The officer goes, ok don’t worry, happens all the time actually. But I can’t let you go back so you have to go across to Canada and then talk to the officers on the other side.
He drives across, waits in line for 45min. He finally gets to an officer and he tries to explain. He’s super nervous but tries to explain what happened. He points to his courtesy car and says I’m here for the golf tournament. This officer is not sure what to do so they drive the car to the side and calls another officer… then another… then another until 8!!! officers are surrounding his car and talking to him and each other. They check his cars for weapons, asks him if he has any drugs or weapons, stuff like that and they finally let him thru 😂😂😂.
Night ended with a nice kbbq dinner about 90 minutes later than we had originally planned.
Never a dull moment with Si Woo. Thanks for the content my guy
Paul Skenes on Ryan O'Hearn's 3 homer, 10 RBI game. 🤣
"I think it was kinda selfish, to be honest. Everybody else is getting on. Home runs are rally killers.
You hit a 3- run home run or a grand slam...and what now? There's nobody on. Nobody can drive him in. Good for him, I guess."
Ages of Founding Fathers in 1776:
James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
John Marshall, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
John Jay, 30
Thomas Jefferson, 33
Thomas Paine, 39
John Adams, 40
George Washington, 44
This nation was built by brilliant young men.
We have been chasing the most violent storms on earth together for over 25 years.
Now, we are bringing the ultimate intercept to the BIG SCREEN. 🌪️🎥
I am beyond excited to announce that NEVER STOP CHASING is hitting theaters nationwide on August 21!
Huge thanks to Deadline for breaking the news this morning. You can read the exclusive announcement and watch the full official trailer here: https://t.co/zwTquSOoiY
Directed by my longtime chase partner Ken Cole, this documentary takes you directly inside the bear's cage. We mastered the entire film in Dolby Vision and immersive Dolby Atmos sound so you can actually feel the roar of a massive wedge tornado right in your theater seat. This is the real deal, and I can't wait for you to experience it with us.
Check out https://t.co/ULS5vzmnew for updates and theater info!
#NeverStopChasing #StormChasing #Dominator #Tornado#Dominator #Tornado
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
The Chiefs made the loudest statement in the league this weekend with their 2026 Draft class.
With potential areas of need on offense, they loaded up on D.
Using @awscloud and @NextGenStats, I break down why I think it was a home run. Check out: https://t.co/LPRqRgRbeQ
The thing that always sticks with me about the GW story, maybe cos I have kids a similar age, is this bit from Full Swing where he talks about writing letters to them in case he didn’t make it through brain surgery. Imagine having to write those letters.