More cloud around this morning. On the Old Course a group of a dozen or so happy golfers are waiting impatiently to tee off. As we pass the starters hut a gentleman in a fucshia coloured shirt and almost matching trousers informs us that they're from 'the Dakotas'. He goes on to add ( somewhat archaically ) that 'We're having a whale of a time '. He offers to swap his 'Fighting Hawks' baseball cap for my somewhat battered 2023 Walker Cup one. ' It's new' he says as if this might clinch the deal. I politely decline. The gentleman expresses his views about the strength - or lack of it - of Scottish coffee. We wish him well. 'The Font' observes that we have never been to the Dakotas nor have we been to Montana or Nebraska which may ( or may not ) be in that 'fly over' part of the map between Chicago and Seattle.
The Tiger Timberlake sports bar now well and truly open. The combination of cheap beer and golf simulators seems to be a recipe for success. Cheap beer alone might have sufficed.
Tonight the club will be hosting a student Halloween party. £5 entrance strikes me as being reasonable. I'm guessing they make their money at the bar.
Opening hours seem on the early side for a college town.
Things are different now :https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2025/10/corporate-geopolitics-when-billionaires-rival-states?lang=en
The last Warsaw hero :https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/24/last-surviving-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-fighter-dies/
Sleep:https://news.mit.edu/2025/your-brain-without-sleep-1029
This was interesting. #8 raises questions:https://www.understandingai.org/p/16-charts-that-explain-the-ai-boom
The real world may be less forgiving :https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/30/students-react-grading-report/
