{"id":30169,"date":"2026-08-10T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30169"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:00:20","slug":"mon-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/mon-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon update"},"content":{"rendered":"

So sad to read the news that Grizzlies backup center Brandon Clarke died<\/a> from the effects of heroin and cocaine. If you want to ride, don’t ride the white horse. And despite what the song says, don’t ride the white pony either.<\/p>\n

I asked AI agent Claude how, when a current NBA player dies, it affects the money that counts toward his team’s salary cap. The answer is that death voids a player’s contract, so Memphis has immediate access to spend the amount of BC’s salary on a replacement.<\/p>\n

Banana pudding cheesecake is a dessert special at Bardog this week.
\nProfessional pillow fighting is a thing.
\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>once again i have to cut off a postt prematurely due to health reasons. y’all im so sorry. maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Back soon with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"writingDirection":1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sad to read the news that Grizzlies backup center Brandon Clarke died from the effects of heroin and cocaine. If you want to ride, don’t ride the white horse. And despite what the song says, don’t ride the white pony either. I asked AI agent Claude how, when a current NBA player dies, it … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/mon-update-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Mon update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30171,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169\/revisions\/30171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}