Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss the Feast of St. Valentine.
He’s a little too young and I’m a little too old to really appreciate the holiday, but we do trade some good barbs and challenge each other with a little trivia.
Of course.
Enjoy.
On the subject of unexpected items, we have today’s gift from the snow day gods. That my local school district would call a snow day? Not unexpected.
That we would actually have a giant pile of snow out there?
Now that is unexpected!
Well, I certainly wasn’t expecting that.
Franklin and I did have a few things right last Friday, at least tangentially, as we discussed the big game. I mentioned how no one had ever won three straight Super Bowls, I mentioned a Super Bowl blowout, and I mentioned Jalen Hurts’ previous championship. In college.
Franklin said the team on the right would win. Darned if Philadelphia didn’t appear on the right side of screen.
That’s about where it ended.
It was a Philadelphia Story from the word go, and kind of an epic drubbing the final score obscures. Let’s just say it wasn’t the prettiest game to watch.
The only sight more sloppy was the parade of downright repulsive commercials. It’s not just that they were bad; they really were gross.
Kind of like if you were watching this game as a Kansas City fan.
Well, there’s always last year.
This weekend you’ve got not one but two podcasts to check out featuring yours truly. Of course there is today’s episode of Math and Musings, in which Franklin and I preview this Sunday’s big game. Everything you need to know in 15 minutes. Then there’s the hour-long Conversations with Sports Fans, in which Doug Hill and I discuss pretty much every topic we can think of except this Sunday’s big game. No, we’re not worried about copyright infringement; we just had other things to say.
Enjoy!
A running gag on Math and Musings is my saying something pithy about the date, how it’s a “good number” or relates to something obscure in some oblique fashion.
Today’s date is 2-5-25.
Sometimes they just make this too easy for me.
I always shake my head a bit, like a grumpy old man, when my son describes his favorite part of a live sporting event. Invariably it’s some overpriced item from the concession stand.
Yesterday, while too cold for sports, we partook in a little culture, visiting the National Museum of Natural History, right there on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
We saw fossils, we saw dinosaurs, we saw meteorites. We saw the freakin’ Hope Diamond!
My son’s favorite part?
Mac ‘n’ cheese from the food court.
Well, it was pretty damn good.
A section of the opening monologue to Politics After Dark described the show as having “a few surprises… sometimes even for me.”
I can think of no better way to present today’s episode of Math and Musings, recorded so long ago I have absolutely no idea what it was about.
I’m sure it was great.
Enjoy.
Someday I’m going to write my autobiography, and I think the appropriate subtitle would be something to the effect of how I got to a bunch of random projects while maintaining completely unrelated employment for the state. The title, of course, will be Snow Days and Jewish Holidays.
I suppose you can add Lunar New Year to that list as well.
Seeing my hometown NFL team–that would be the Washington Commanders–play in the NFC Championship game yesterday was kind of a thrill… until about 18 seconds after their opponents touched the ball. Philadelphia’s early score may have been a sign of things to come, though I didn’t really expect the thrashing to be as thorough as it was. True that we have seen worse, if one remembers a game from 1940. That one involved the Commanders too (by their previous name), and people do still talk about it 85 years later.
At least I didn’t take the hat trick on championship game losses. It could have been worse had I watched the Yankees, Notre Dame, and the Commanders all lose in championship games. Still, I would have liked to see the chance, risky as it may have been.
Wait ’til next year.
Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I continue “snow day season” with an episode recorded weeks ago as the snow fell outside. Actually it wasn’t snowing at all; our county school district just closed that day because they knew we can’t handle driving when there are more than two flakes of snow on the ground.