Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss our recent trip to the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., no relation to our recently surpassing 2,000 posts on this blog. I promise I’m not going to call out every … Continue reading
Today’s bellringer: If a blogger posts upon his site three times a week, how long will it take for him to have a thousand posts? (Pause to get calculator.) How about two thousand? Three times a week is about 156 … Continue reading
Discussion about last night’s game between my hometown NFL team–that would be the Washington Commanders–and the Philadelphia Eagles has centered mostly on the 4th quarter “excessive celebration” penalty called against Stefon Diggs. It was Diggs’s first game in burgundy and … Continue reading
“Celebrate” is the wrong word. Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I remember and pay tribute to the events of September 11, 2001, on this its 25th anniversary. Hard to believe it’s been a quarter of a century, then … Continue reading
Two of the most noteworthy things I ever did in life occurred on back-to-back days in September of 2006. It was September 9 and September 10, as a matter of fact, and though it doesn’t seem possible, I realize now … Continue reading
I’ve spent more than half my life studying the dark art of pseudocampaigning, that unholy alchemy practiced by incumbent politicians who spin informational brochures into thinly-veiled campaign literature. I “learned” from the master, one Thomas W. Libous, state senator from … Continue reading
I think I’m finally ready to talk about it. Last Sunday at Nationals Park. As referenced Monday, it was lovely until it wasn’t. For further details, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings. Enjoy. … Continue reading
Last night the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the San Francisco Giants 13-12 in what is being hailed as the “game of the year,” though I suppose I could also call it “a pretty bad team beating a really bad team.” Either … Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon I attended my first Major League Baseball game this season, this after seeing a mess of games at varying levels of professionalism. “Mess” is how I’d describe the conclusion to yesterday’s game; I should have stuck to the … Continue reading
Last week on Math and Musings I asked my son trivia questions from the year 2010, four years before he was born. On today’s episode he flips the script, quizzing me on events from 1978. Oh, how the turntables have … Continue reading