The flywheel remainder
Sunday weblog notes from February 8, 2026 that were compiled and shared.
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and things are lining up for a competitive game to happen. At least, I hope it will be competitive. Coverage will start on NBA at 10:00 a.m. with a highlight show and 11:00 a.m. with the actual show, which is exciting. My big plan for the day is to sit down and watch wall-to-wall coverage. Seriously, I’m going to lock in and just enjoy a day of football.
Sure, I started my day with a little bit of Farscape. The Olympic hockey games I want to watch don’t really kick off until Tuesday this week. It turned out that I had to subscribe to Peacock for the month to watch all the Olympic hockey games. It’s a small price to pay to watch the Olympics streaming, I guess, but I feel like they could have worked out some partner program to broadcast it without needing the monthly subscription. You can watch the main broadcast on NBC using the rabbit ears, but that is a broken system compared to streaming asynchronously the content you actually want to watch.
My winter Olympic watching is probably going to focus on hockey. The Colorado Avalanche hockey team has 8 players that will be competing. It should be good. I’ll admit that the 4 Nations Face-Off was actually really good television. I had no idea it would be such an enjoyable thing to watch in the world of sports. I don’t feel like the Olympic hockey coverage will get as much focus as that event based on the time difference and the volume of games. We will see how that plays out starting next week. This will be one of those things where I will try to avoid the scores so the games are still exciting during the replay.
We lock into a variety of adventures. Some of them are more defining than others. Today I’m sitting down and just waiting to lock into some focus time with football coverage in the background. My big plan for this block of time is to sit down and write. You know the old-fashioned long-form essay work that used to happen a lot more often. Recently, my online presence has been reduced. It makes sense. Our internet is not even ours anymore. What was the free and open internet where people shared things online has become silos of attention. It’s more of a one-way street than ever before. At first, websites showed up, and people went to them directly. Online was a space people arrived at like seeing billboards on the highway. Eventually, the spread of message boards and comment sections created some two-way conversations. At some point along the way, people engaged with each other, and streaming happened. Now we have a bunch of siloed islands of online content that are mostly streaming one direction with a few comment sections and chat interfaces.
Maybe I’m just nostalgic about what the internet used to be and won’t be ever again.