Mike McClary

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🏒 Barry Melrose ☹️

I loved Barry Melrose. The first time I heard his name was in the late ‘80s when he was the coach of the Red Wings top farm club, the Adirondack Red Wings.

There were whispers that he could be a future Wings coach but the L.A. Kings scooped him up and he led them to the ‘93 Cup Final. His first season!

In 1997 or so I passed him in O’Hare Airport and could not get over his size. He looked like a hockey player.

He’s been off the air for three years but it still seems like he’s around.

RIP, Barry.

📺 ESPN’s tribute

→ 4:29 PM, Sep 10

Watching: Professor T

My subscription to PBS has been paying off. So many good UK shows, most of them murder mysteries which I usually pass on, but the characters and storylines – not to mention the settings – are terrific.

→ 12:27 PM, Sep 8

August 27, 2026

Tech: I installed LM Studio and loaded the Gemma 4 E4B model. Then I just stared at my screen. Now I’m wondering what I’m supposed to be using it for instead of Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT. Maybe I’ll ask it.

TV: Generally speaking, I don’t like to watch TV. That is, I won’t sit down and watch just anything – what am I, still in college? But I like watching specific shows. Another one I discovered this week on PBS, a British show, “Professor T.” Full endorsement.

Tigers: Off day, mercifully.

Tune: “Dancin’ Shoes” by Nigel Olsson

→ 5:39 PM, Aug 27

August 26, 2026

Tech: The new M6 Mac mini sounds impressive and expensive. Pass … for now.

TV: Halfway through “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.”

Tigers: Lost again.

Tune: “Alibis” by Sergio Mendes

→ 4:55 PM, Aug 26

First Dolly, and now Tim Curry.

→ 1:05 PM, Aug 26

Good morning.

→ 8:09 AM, Aug 4

And John McEnroe on guitar.

→ 9:11 AM, Jul 27

Two more episodes of Curb to watch tonight and that caps it off for me. Tomorrow, my HBO with All the Ads subscription expires. Good riddance.

→ 5:34 PM, Jul 22

What’s up with Apple’s shipping delays? I know the Mac mini backlog is a real thing—a month as of this writing–but over the past two days I’ve placed orders for Express (next-day) delivery and ponied up $8 for the convenience. Then, both times, I got an email with an expected delivery of four days to a week—same for store delivery. That’s not express. Or maybe it was in 1982. I canceled both orders.

→ 9:26 PM, Jul 21

I just noticed that I have about 150 paper clips that likely will never be used.

→ 10:59 AM, Dec 29