I’m back now from beach trip #2, but still not paying attention to the news.
Actually, this is the new O’Connell personal strategy and your hot take for today: go on vacation more, pay attention to the news less.
Sure, there are events out there in the world with actual consequences, but let’s face it, most of what you’re scrolling through is just garbage.
Don’t let the algorithms win!
I composed the following list a few weeks ago yet held onto it for some reason, perhaps because such a thing would never really be timely. Timeless, of course, meaning perhaps I could post it any time.
There’d be a time I was on vacation not paying attention to the news and would post the list out of context.
That’s today, and the right-up-my-alley list is this: every month of the year can be associated with a color.
These are the correct ones.
January-white
February-pink
March-green
April-lavender
May-peach
June-gold
July-blue
August-tan
September-yellow
October-orange
November-brown
December-red
As I often find myself saying… you’re welcome.
This week’s episode of Math and Musings tells the story of my recent trip to the beach.
I came home, worked for a few days, then Sunday I’m leaving for the beach again.
Guess what next week’s MAM is about?
You may have wondered what I’ve been doing while on vacation the past few days. Well, among other things I did accomplish one major goal.
I tried the Grimace Shake from McDonald’s.
Looks like purple, tastes like purple.
Well done, McDonald’s.
Still on vacation, and I haven’t been keeping up with the news.
Not keeping up with the news usually does not preclude me from expressing opinions on such, but today I’ll use it as a convenient excuse.
I’m off to the beach today, but I wouldn’t dream of leaving you without some audio content, courtesy of today’s episode of Math and Musings.
Enjoy.
You heard it here first… the Denver Double. When the Denver Nuggets dispatched the Miami Heat Monday night it made Denver the city of champions, holding the NBA and NHL titles concurrently for, I believe, the first time. For any city.
And it lasted for 24 hours.
Vegas strikes again.
Tonight and tomorrow night may bring the close of the NBA and NHL seasons respectively. Both teams up three games to one have a potential clincher at home, Denver tonight and Vegas tomorrow. Of course this would spoil the “Miami double” of Heat and Panthers championships, but this is nothing new. Nine times previously, teams from the same city have appeared in the NBA and NHL finals in a single year, and nine times we have not seen a sweep.
Looks like make that 10.
However…
Overlooked in all of this has to be the potential “Denver double” (love that alliteration) if the Nuggets prevail this evening. With the Colorado Avalanche winning the 2022 Stanley Cup it will mean that the city of Denver has technically won two of these things consecutively. The NBA finals ended before the NHL finals last year, so even though the games are 351 days apart it’s technically two in a row.
Day One at statistician school they tell ya, Be willing to adjust your hypothesis as new facts come in.
Forty-one laps around the sun complete. As goes the usual procedure I’m celebrating by producing a new episode of the “TV” show and posting it online. Yup, Politics After Dark episode 324 available here. This is the first one I filmed 21st-century style, straight-up phone to YouTube. Probably a lesser quality but a billion times easier. The episode’s only seven minutes long, but I figure with 15 minutes of podcasting every week I don’t really need 30 on “TV” once a year to say the same things.
So for the full story, tune in Friday to Math and Musings. Until then? Enjoy the vid.