It’s a sad thing that I so often have to preface posts here with apologies about a prolonged forerunning silence, but here I go again.

Thinking Out Loud will be out of action for ten days or so while I finish up the last of my finals in UCD – and also while we settle into the new humble abode ^[1]. You can keep up with how they’re going via the #gavsfinals hashtag ^[2] on Twitter – otherwise, I’ll see you on Saturday the 16th for, I don’t know, some sort of social commentary or other.

Thought for the day: Professional sport at the highest level, as embodied in not one ^[3] but two ^[4] Champions’ League semi-finals, shouldn’t be reduced to guesswork and reliability on human error.