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Happy Birthday to fresne!

Going into yesterday the Chicago Cubs were one of the sorriest franchises in professional sports. Their opponents the Cleveland Indians have not won a World Series in my lifetime. Until this year the Cubs had not played in a World Series in my lifetime and had not won one since before my father was born, well over a hundred years ago. They talk ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to mamculuna!

I am reminded of an afternoon when I was an undergraduate, when a professor/friend of mine and I were sitting in the Student Commons cafe discussing a documentary bio-pic called Dylan that we had both recently seen. Another student and mutual friend of ours walked up and hearing the title, immediately asked about the subject, "A new movie about ( Read more... )

If you've ever heard of the spicy ramen challenge you know what it's about. ( If not check out Emmy's video below the cut. )

Apod posted this picture of Mars today: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161005.htmlIt may not look like much, but wow! This is much more obvious proof that there was once a lot of water on Mars than I have seen with my own eyes before. The top knot shows classic layered rock (mud stone?) as if deposited by floods. Then you have to wonder how long ( Read more... )

Since I first heard about it, NBC's adventure show Timeless I've been kind of torn about the premise, time travelers trying to keep an evil time traveler from destroying history as we know it. For someone like me who is a stickler for logic and causation in anything serious, time changing stories can be very intriguing or extremely annoying. I ( Read more... )

I caught an episode of the new MacGyver, tonight. Sometimes I just have to see for myself. Whew, the reboot is bad! The original was fun, though certainly not compelling. In the Midwest it was something to watch till the Monday Night Football game came on. You wouldn't change channels away from it, if it was about to come on. You wouldn't be ( Read more... )

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