Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I celebrate Halloween with candy and trivia, two of our favorite things. Recorded back on Diwali, this one’s got day off written all over it.
Enjoy.
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“Prescient” is how one might describe Monday’s post, as I lamented the choice between football and baseball… and sleep.
Little did I know how right I would be, 18 innings and nearly seven hours later.
I never even switched to the Commanders’ game. Second half of that silliness probably caused more sleeplessness than a baseball all-nighter.
Yikes.
I’ve now reached the age and degree of lameness where one sees his team playing on Monday Night Football and thinks… ugh, so late on a school night!
I’m that guy now.
Yesterday we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of my idols… Johnny Carson.
This is one of the many topics that Franklin and I do not discuss on this week’s episode of Math and Musings.
We do, however, discuss our recent “pizza tour” of Binghamton, New York, proving that Binghamton does have at least one thing going for it, much the way Johnny Carson could save a terrible act with a well-timed zinger.
Thank you, pizza.
At the beginning of this year’s American League Championship Series I found myself pulling for the Seattle Mariners. After all, they’d never been to the World Series, a drought since their inception in 1977.
But on the Toronto Blue Jays bench there was a coach who’s had a drought since 1961, a certain Donald Arthur Mattingly, my hero since the Reagan administration.
With the Blue Jays win Donnie Baseball is finally going to the World Series, and this guy finds himself pulling for the team north of the border.
First time for everything.
I’ve got a brand-new giant television in my living room, approximately the size of a Pontiac. It’s twice as big my old TV, and it makes watching content somehow more than twice as enjoyable.
It also makes watching my hometown NFL team (that would be the Washington Commanders) take an ass-whooping at the hands of a division rival somehow more than twice as painful.
Gotta ask a math teacher exactly how that one works.
Today’s episode of Math and Musings was recorded on Yom Kippur. (That was October 2 for those of you in the goyim.) Franklin and I bring out the Blooket with some Yiddish expressions; hilarity ensues.
You’re welcome.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a Dodgers-Mariners World Series, though I’m a bit concerned about the timing of it all. I can barely stay up for the end of games on the east coast, let alone any that would start out west. Accommodate west coast audiences and I’m falling asleep about the third inning!
I’m always nervous when watching my local NFL team (that would be the Washington Commanders) play in primetime. They don’t exactly have the greatest track record in these things, and I hate to wait all day to see a game that goes south.
Still the same, I do look forward to tonight, knowing that it very well could end with said local NFL team sitting tied atop of the NFC East.
That’s worth waiting for.
Today on Math and Musings Franklin and I discuss a recent trip to Winchester, Virginia. As goes our usual routine, on this day we do something interesting and eat something interesting.
And then record a podcast about it.