On 20 December 1989, I boarded a C-141 at Pope Air Force Base. Later that evening, I deplaned at Howard Air Force Base in Panama, thus beginning my participation in Operation JUST CAUSE.

I named 50 US states in 10 minutes
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The 1-7 St. Louis Rams have their bye this week.

The good news is that the Rams are only 4-point underdogs this weekend.

The St. Louis Rams end their 0-season futility streak, beating the also-hapless Detroit Lions 17-10.

HUZZAH!

With a 6-3 road win over the Colorado Rockies, the Redbirds have clinched the NL Central title, and thus a playoff spot ( Read more... )

...brings the Redbirds' magic number to three.

In celebration of which:

ETA: I had originally embedded a YouTube video of Schoolhouse Rock's "Three Is a Magic Number," but apparently there's some sort of Web exploit that affected this, so I've removed the embedded video. Meanwhile, the Cardinals' magic number is now one (as of 23 September 2009 ( Read more... )

Full details here.

H/T to Prof Reynolds

Just out of curiosity, I decided to see how many letters from the song title "Put Down the
Duckie" I would have to type in YouTube's search window for the full title to come up as a suggestion ( Read more... )

Since its founding on 18 February 2008, Eutopolis is doing well, currently ranked at #2042 of all MiniCities in the United States. If anyone reading this wants to help Eutopolis grow, the best thing to do is to click on the link above to see what Eutopolis needs. Here's our current status:

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Today (Father's Day here in the States), all of Major League Baseball is showing blue to raise awareness of prostate cancer.

( Cut because of uncharacteristic blue language )