April 2007 Archives

Hi Randy,

I'm 94.3 percent sure you aren't going to read this, but I thought I'd welcome you to my new home town anyway. I moved here about two years ago and I wanted to tell you it's great. The people here are wonderful and they LOVE their sports. Especially the ladies. I mean, I've never seen a town with so many informed about their favorite teams.

Anyway, there are also a lot of things that can drive high-priced athletes nuts in this town. But good news for you here, you've already taken a pay cut! Well played.

For the record, I'm a Nationals fan (and Terps, obviously). But my favorite announcers that are working today are, hands down, Don Orsello and Jerry Remy. I really can't imagine Vin Scully doing an episode like this justice.

Enjoy.

Don't mind me, I'm just playing widgets from with my friend Steve Rosenbaum's site, Magnify.net. (It always helps to turn off "convert line breaks" when posting object code into a blog post ...)

So BillingsGazette.com posted this AP story with the headline Butte blast blamed on leaking gas. I just hope for their sake the Gazette has the ability to target which ads appear on that page and is working off some kind of auction model so it can maximize its revenue when this page got "farqued."

So a friend forwarded me a bunch of images that (apparently) were real answers to test questions by students. One made me laugh more than the others and has stayed with me for some time. I posted it above. I think what makes it stand out to me is that in this age of algorythms and databases and metrics, we can still have a hard time seeing what's right in front of our eyes.