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.
That’s the food trifecta right there.
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 the NBA this year. Two of the teams have never won a championship–that would be the T-wolves and the Pacers–and the other two haven’t won in about half a century. The Thunder won it all in 1979 playing as the Seattle Supersonics, and the team of my youth–that would be the New York Knicks–haven’t won since before my childhood… 1973! I’ve literally been waiting my whole life.
So far.
Stanley Cup Finals this year are likely to be a repeat of last season. Looks like the NBA will be anything but.
Awesome.
“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 accuse LTM of clickbait.
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.
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 flavor alternative; now the options exploded into permutations usually reserved for perfect brackets and BK Whoppers.
Stop into a Wendy’s today and you’ll have a choice of 14 different Frosty flavors, each one a little more ridiculous than the last. It’s all cheating, of course, as the flavors are just toppings to the traditional vanilla and chocolate, but if we were calling “pineapple” a different flavor then I guess Pop-Tarts Strawberry Frosty Fusion’s one too. Monday Wendy’s announced the three new “fusion” flavors: Pop-Tarts Strawberry, Oreo Brownie, and Caramel Crunch. Couple this with the “swirl” flavors introduced last month (strawberry, caramel, and brownie), and yes, you really do have 14 different options. I’d trade it all for that Orange Dreamsicle to make its return, but in the meantime I guess fusions and swirls will have to do.
At nearly eight dollars (for a large) and over 1100 calories they’ve really gone the bigger-is-better route on these, so think about sharing with a friend before diving into one.
If for no other reason than to split the bill.
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 many, their second Commission’s Cup title coming last Friday night with a victory over the Carolina Thunderbirds. The scene was nearly identical to that of one year ago, as the BBB again made short work of its playoff opponents. Binghamton is 14-1 in the postseason the past two years, and hasn’t lost at home, playoffs or otherwise, since December of 2024. That’s a winning formula.
Sure, Franklin and I will talk about this Friday on Math and Musings but might as well start the party early, eh?
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 news from my hometown today is Game Three of the Federal Prospects Hockey League championship series. Binghamton is up 2-0, and could close out a series victory tonight. That would be back-to-back titles for the Black Bears and another exception to the rule that Binghamton is never in the news for anything good.
Enjoy.
Most times when someone says I wrote the book on that it’s just an expression. Me? I’ve got a few. But this one isn’t what you’re thinking.
It was more than 20 years ago, I wrote what I guess was my first book, a published version of my senior honors thesis at Binghamton University. Like a young John F. Kennedy I turned my school project into something a little more, perhaps not gaining the traction of JFK’s Why England Slept but it made its mark in Binghamton in 2003.
I called the book While Federalism Slept, I thought a clever play on Kennedy’s book and a description of my own theses: that the federal Community Development Block Grant program begun in the 1970s was in fact harmful to the communities it supposedly helped and should be eliminated.
Fell on deaf ears at the local and national level.
Fast-forward 22 years, and imagine my surprise that one Donald J. Trump, president of this fine nation, is proposing elimination of the CDBG program.
A part of me is a little disappointed I’m not getting any recognition in this, but like most school projects, I’m not in it for the glory or the money, just happy to help.
And getting to say I told’ja so.
“I’m not sure what it means, but it’s interesting.”
That’s the final line of last night’s episode of The Rehearsal, probably the strangest half hour of television I’ve ever witnessed, and I’ve witnessed some strange television.
Should I try to explain the episode?
It starts with President Obama announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden and ends with a cloned dog not assisting a diabetic emergency.
I haven’t posted about Season Two of The Rehearsal yet because, well, it would require trying to explain something like the above.
Three episodes in I simply say, it’s good, and deserves your watching.
I’m not sure what it means, but it’s interesting.
Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I are in the old country (Binghamton, New York), talking about, among other things, horserace gamblin’.
What do these things have in common?
Tune in to find out.