One of the things I've been doing lately is playing with something called the Play Index on www.baseball-reference.com. Basically, this is a tool for sorting all the massive database of statistics that the Major Leagues have accrued over the last many several years, dating back in some cases to the beginning of baseball itself, somewhere around ( Read more... )

My sister recently asked me to burn her an album of songs which might be popular around the time of the Vietnam War, and generally iconic of that time and those circumstances. So I futzed around in my collection and found some songs which I thought of as emblematic of the time: psychedelia, soul, soft pop, and straight ahead rock 'n' roll, with ( Read more... )

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

From the widget:
Current conditions
cloudy, 6 C, 88% humidity, 1028.4 mb, wind NE 8 km/hr

The forecast
Tonight: cloudy, low 4 (Earlier high of 7)
Tomorrow: partly cloudy, some showers, high 16, low 9
Wednesday: partly cloudy, high 20, low 12
Thursday: rain, high 17, low 3
Friday: partly cloudy, high 7, low -1If you ( Read more... )

Oh, what a giveaway!

Recently, the blog bOINGbOING put up a painting by Amy Crehore. It's a nude (though nothing of the naughty bits is shown - the woman is strategically holding a guitar). If you've never seen her work, I suppose I would recommend it. It tends to be sensual and lush, and reminds me a bit of Gauguin, but to my mind sometimes ( Read more... )

A bit of research on the tiny li'l cars category led me to the Corbin Sparrow, which was apparently in the movie Goldmember and very much fits the idea of being electrically powered and really, really small which I mentioned in my last post. DW took a look and went "squeeee!" and "izzo koooooott!", which leads me to believe, through some wild ( Read more... )

I am much vexed. It looks like in order to get this new podcast of mine properly fed so that people can subscribe to it, we're gonna have to move it to libsyn or some for-pay service. The geniuses at blog.com have a helpful little craplet that goes back and "corrects" your HTML such that you can't manually put in the code that makes it do the ( Read more... )

Just had a tooth out at the dentists'. AAAAAAAAAAGGGG. My spit is still pink, and I have a cold compress against my face. Had to drive home from Olney this way; efbq will explain why. Of course, that was the cosmic cue to the universe to let the loonies loose on the highway; the trip home was through a slalom course of gomers and dipsticks who ( Read more... )

Well, I don't ache quite as much as I did, though I have to say that my voice is almost entirely kaput. I can't really speak at all. *pause for applause* Still nowhere near 100%, and that likely means a slow and house-ridden weekend - meaning that I'm likely to miss the roller derby championship in Baltimore, dangit.

( deserved anti-Democrat political rant )

Anybody who believes in the whole Wikipedia/"wisdom of crowds" thing has obviously never looked up the song "Stuck in the Middle With You" on a file-sharing site and seen who the vast unwashed morons of the Intarwebs think actually does it. Most of them have it wrong. It's not Bob Dylan. It's not the Steve Miller Band. It's not the Grateful ( Read more... )

Karl Rove will likely end up either working for a Republican Presidential campaign - more than likely telling them how to avoid widespread revelation about the obvious flaws they possess...in other words, lie - or out of the country very soon. In fact, both might be a possibility, here: he might spend a bit of time visiting with some favorite ( Read more... )