Once you get past the desperate attempt to tie Twitter into everything, this is an interesting historical grammar article: tr.im/ueAN
At the Museum of Science and Industry checking out Harry Potter and the Overly Protective Lawyers exhibit: twitpic.com/brbs0
I’m enjoying that the Holliday trade debate is if it’s a good deal, if it’s short-sighted & no longer “Are they ever going to do anything?”
Moon diameter: 2,158 mi. Pi*(2,159/2)^2= 3,660,961 sq.mi. Britannica gives 3,676,487 sq.mi. (or 0.4% larger) area for…The United States!
If you took a slice from the moon’s diameter and measured it in square miles, what state or country would it be closest to?
Most perfect perfect game? Sandy Koufax Ks 14, everyone but shortstop. Wins 1-0. Opp. pitcher: 1H & 1BB, 1 unearned R. tr.im/tQBX
Also enjoyable, the wonderful Wind & Fire Earth: twitpic.com/bemhe
Favorite bug of the day: Amazon MP3 autocorrects (last, first) Blood, Sweat & Tears to Sweat & Tears Blood: twitpic.com/bekup
There have been 9 multi-pitcher no-hitters, but no multi-pitcher perfect games. I’d think it’d take injury or extra innings to happen.
Top Chef Masters is a gold standard for reality TV. Contestants work together so they all do their best & the best chef wins.
Given the terrible teams over the years that have even worse stretches & horrendous games, I’m surprised there aren’t more perfect games.
STL-area native Mark Buehrle throws a perfect game! Only 18th in baseball history. & he desperately wants to be a Cardinal.
Will I ever not be nervous clicking ‘update’ when sending a @woot tweet? An odd public-speaking phobia where I’m not public & not speaking.
#ultimatemovie Carrie drives Christine, with Cujo in the passenger seat running over people’s pets until a little girl sets the car on fire.
216,000 people born/day. 150/minute. A sucker born every minute, or 0.67%. Look left, right, & 147 other directions. 1 of you is the sucker.
How I’ll judge today’s run: I loaded up the Nike Run site, went out running, came back, and the site’s still trying to load.
By my calculations, it was roughly around 1200 AD that there was literally a sucker born every minute. (250 million over 500 years)
I heard the distinct sounds of a school bus stopping & starting up in front & instinctively thought, if I run I can still make it.
e.g., RT @PrincessQuana #GoodSex is wat I have every time I give @ some action ;) he got some Gooooooood shhhhhhhh
I love that it’s becoming a trend for people to use @_ when confessing to unspeakable acts with an anonymous person.