i've mentioned my rainbow-day cycle here before. there are other colors of course, so occasionally i mix it up. or orchestrate. valentine's wasn't going to be red so i threw i a couple spacers to make it happen. didn't realize at the time that in non-leap years this results in saint patrick's day being green. what luck.

transit of venus

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speaking of recurrences, the last transit was on june 8th, 2004, also a tuesday.

black francis is the subject of today's wiki featured article.

bythos just shuffled up james blunt's cover of where is my mind?

i forgot to mention that i get plenty of traffic from spammers ( Read more... )

while attempting to discover the history of the naming of milton and byron streets in my hometown of grand rapids, i stumbled upon a wiki devoted to the city. one of the features at this wiki is a project called plasticspace which is exploring the odd shapes created by the census block slices of the map of the city. in conjunction with this they ( Read more... )

the s.s. edmund fitzgerald is the feature article at wikipedia today, which coincidentally was one of the windiest days of the year in detroit, and, i assume, also on lake superior.

it was a warm (high 50s) and wonderfully gloomy windswept day.

"tigers manager jim leyland, who suffered through a rainout in the tigers' 2006 world series -- which his team lost to st. louis -- admitted that mother nature can be a bit fickle this time of year ( Read more... )

quasicrystal
aperiodic tilings
tiling of the pentagon


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with one win. i think we could've done better, but with two games in detroit coming up next (monday & tuesday), we might not have to go back to the bronx to finish it. knock ( Read more... )

in last night's indians-rangers game, indian outfielder shelley duncan (who hit two home runs off of justin verlander in the same game recently) made three consecutive catches on hits by three consecutive batters all in virtually the same exact spot, each catch requiring him to jump in the air to make the play. (video & more details). there must ( Read more... )