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Good thing I'm not obsessed
Trivia question: who holds the Major League record for most home runs in a career by a player who never had more than one in a game ( Read more... ) -
On this day in history
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies on Election Day in Baltimore of mysterious circumstances.
1957 - The Brickskeller opens for business in D.C.
1974 - The events of "The Denton Affair" take place, dated from the newspaper Janet Weiss holds over her head. -
QotD
From a young Ghanan cow-orker, at yesterday's company picnic, when a soccer game was breaking out and I was throwing myself into the middle of it:
"Okay, lessee. We'll put all the Africans on one side, with the Europeans and the Asians. And on the other side, we'll have...um, Scooterbird."
As a footnote: ow. I'm sore. -
It lies to us
I have one of those fact-a-day desk calendars for the Orioles. I do not like it, Sam-I-Am, because it can indeed play free and easy with the facts it gives, sometimes giving records as current that have already been broken, and so on ( Read more... ) -
Livin' la vida metric
There are some good and bad points to being an intellectual or cultural loner, refusing to follow the herd on matters that are otherwise taken for granted. I've always felt that the metric system would be the thing to follow in the U.S. - blame it on a combination of studying in the sciences for years and growing up during the Carter ( Read more... ) -
Breaking news: suicide at Long Reach
Just to let everyone know, yes, a suicide was found on the Long Reach campus this morning; an older male - not a student - apparently hanged himself from the bleachers outside. Local MSM has the story here. The school is on lockdown, kids are safe. I heard from DD#1 and she's fine; DD#2 leaves her phone off at school. -
This is what you would call an object lesson
My lovely daughters are both teenaged, which is to say that they are by now quite convinced that their old man is a tedious fool, hopelessly out of touch with what matters the most in today's world. Well, to qualify that: with what really matters. The usual example for that would be computers, but as I've mentioned before, they have grown up with ( Read more... ) -
It's like this
MLW has taken some amusement at my self-description as Not Exciting (with the Significant Capitalization).
She has also said that my older daughter would prolly agree.
Such is life in our household. -
What I did on my weekend
Or, "My Life on the Interwebs".
First, I recorded my podcast. You can find it here.
Second, I went from there to a party/cookout at the house of the father of Kid#1's best friend, who is a pretty good musician and hangs around with pretty good musicians. I ended up on "stage" with them for "The Weight". (That's me in the cap and sunglasses, ( Read more... ) -
Surfacing
I've been thinking about opening a Facebook account for quite a while now, but thanks to the largely negative publicity they've received regarding their privacy policy, I am less inclined to do so ( Read more... )