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Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss two streaks which both started on May 30. One began in 1982, and one began in 2008. One is a little more well known than the other, but it’s the other one … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2025
The most useless and overrated word in the English language is please. It’s polite and all, sometimes pretty, and can fool some people some of the time, sure. Some even call it magic. I never do, and like honor to … Continue reading
Today would have been my paternal grandfather’s one hundred-thirteenth birthday. He was born on May 26, 1912, not quite witnessing the Titanic wreck but catching two world wars, the Great Depression, the moon landing, etc. He also saw the New … Continue reading
Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss in full the tasty new dessert offering teased here last Wednesday. The Wendy’s Frosty has collaborated with Oreo, possibly out-Oreo’d the Oreo, and now been given the Franklin treatment as well. … Continue reading
Last night’s NBA matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves wasn’t exactly a nailbiter, but don’t worry, The League will make this thing close for TV by the end of the series. Gotta love the Final Four of … Continue reading
“Economy remains stable.” This is the page-one headline from my local weekly (that would be Loudoun Times-Mirror) last Friday, no doubt allaying fears among the anxious citizenry, so used to scrolling through doom-and-gloom pieces on social media. “Economy remains stable.” Can’t … Continue reading
Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss hockey (FPHL, not NHL), Oreos, and the tenuous connection between both. Can’t be conservative and serious all the time. Enjoy. … Continue reading
Friday you’ll hear me and Franklin discuss the Oreoification of the Oreo cookie, though the real leader in Oreoifying these days goes to Wendy’s and its famed Frosty dessert. It took them 37 years to come up with vanilla as a … Continue reading
In the first half century of hockey in Binghamton, New York (a.k.a. Hockeytown), the various teams involved collected exactly one championship trophy. That was the 2011 Binghamton Senators. In the past two years the Binghamton Black Bears have won twice as … Continue reading
Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss Part Two of our trip to the old country: Binghamton, New York, home of hockey and horseracing, where pizza is still called “hot pie” and Dunkin’ is still Dunkin’ Donuts. Big … Continue reading