Posted inCulture
Go, Bird, go!
You've all heard it by now. Mark "The Bird" Fidrych is dead. He was 54. There are plenty of places to read about The Bird, like here and especially here.…
Posted inCulture
Top 10 Men’s fashion rules
It's Spring, so it's high time we talked about men's fashion. Update: George Will and Daniel Akst from the Wall Street Journal have weighed in. We'll do women at another…
Posted inFun
If you are redirected here please leave a comment
If you came to this page looking for something else, could you pretty please leave a comment below saying what you were looking for? I think I have all the…
I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse
Enough with the pitch count! It was 88 last pitch---and even with my limited mathematical ability I can figure out that the next must be 89. Keep quiet about on-base…
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics
The only two reasons for statistics
This short post is for reference. I will point back to it from time to time. Reason 1: to say something about the past Examples: counting seasonal numbers of wins…
Posted inCulture
Omni magazine: a tribute
Crap. Some kind of psychobabble how-to. Crap. Romance novel, romance novel, something in a plastic binder---and it's sticky!, ah geez---crap, crap, crap. Wait...what's that one. With the psychedelic cover. Do…
Posted inFun
I’ve changed my mind about global warming
The CATO ad is what got me thinking. Maybe the real reason I didn't sign is because I knew that I might be wrong on global warming. And if I…
Posted inStatistics
The ad I wish CATO would have run
I did not think to say this to CATO when they sent me an email requesting I sign their ad. I should have suggested this alternative, and as our Uncle…
