an oldie and goodieHere’s the text (when was the last time you read it?): Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declarationof the Thirteen United States of America When, in the course of human events, it becomes…
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diversion for baseball fans who need a diversion
(looking at you, NYY fans)I am pretty sure that the starting line-up for the New York Yankees on Friday night against the Angels of etc, etc California included 4 guys batting between .100 and .199, and a guy without…
Tagged with: Apology, Atonement, Baseball, Diversion, Domonic Brown, Jason Giambi, New York Yankees, Redemption, Scandal, Sports Illustrated
diversion: late score seals the win
believe it or not, not everyone is talking about it You know the setting … late in the high stakes match a guy on the visiting team scores in a most improbable fashion just a few ticks of the clock…
no barbecue until you remember, please
new link, then some repriseYou’re all grown-ups, so can do what you want. But if you begin your holiday festivities today before acknowledging that the holiday today is a somber one, you’re not doing it right. I was going to…
Tagged with: Diary, Memorial Day, Museum, New Orleans, Pat Tillman, Remembrance, Talking Points Memo, World War Ii
odd diversion from space
even if you have seen it before, worth another lookThe expression "winning the Internet" was never so apt as its use this week to describe a space oddity: the Canadian astronaut departing from the Intenational Space Station recording a music…
Tagged with: Astronaut, David Bowie, Diversion, Guitar, International Space Station, Music Video, Space Oddity
diversion for mothers (and mofos) on a beautiful Sunday
(on which it, somehow, forgot to rain) I flagged this item from Gothamist when it was fresh on April 29. Today is a good day for a lovely (they say “phenomenal”) aerial photo of New York City, taken from…
diversion: do we need to see patterns where none exist?
Big Data = opportunities Data are information, not knowledge. The New York Times Well blog post this week (Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing) is based on a study of five entire seasons of free throws in…
Tagged with: Basketball, Big Data, Bowling, Diversion, Free Throws, New York Times, Patterns, Statistics, Uncertainty
diversion / needlessly painful baseball
stop me if you’ve heard this beforeIf you are a mild baseball fan you are aware that catchers take a lot of punishment; a more serious fan is aware that Yankee catcher Francisco Cervelli suffered a broken hand last week…
diversion from the archives / still a beautiful city
still, time lapsed My April 14, 2012 diversion, beautiful Saturday diversion / beautiful city, time lapsed, is worth another look. Still diverting, still lapsing, still New York, still with a (slight) Manhattan loft neighborhood angle. If you’ve seen it…
diversion / baseball games! old baseball games
it’s beginning to feel a lot like … Opening DaySnow flurries aside, it is getting to be baseball season, finally. If you’ve been following the game for a while, there will be something in this compilation on SBNation that will…
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