Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- How much shuffling does it take to randomize a deck of cards?

- Is he into you? Animal kingdom edition. "Try casually flirting with him by urinating close to where he's grazing."

- Weedkiller Roundup may cause non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

- PJ O'Rourke remembers friend John Hughes

- Interesting look at the financial success of Adam Carolla's pirate ship

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Fascinating - Rudy Guiliani's impact on Law & Order's conviction rate... Just saying but the Latin you took in high school to improve your SAT scores is much more useful in real life than the ballroom dancing your wife made you take after you were married... I agree 100% with Bruce Allen on the release of Bob Sanders by the Colts: "Can you imagine if Bill Belichick released a star player over Twitter, like the Colts did? The vitriol would be off the charts"... Life lessons from science - at the event horizon a negative particle gets sucked into a black hole while a positive particle escape. I'm going to do my best be a positive particle... Awkward ad... The Wisconsin teacher walkout could have the effect of more support across the country for school vouchers. Good!... I scream, you scream... Today would have been John Hughes' 61st birthday. Everyone knows his great hits but to me his Only the Lonely and She's Having a Baby remain both vastly under-rated and personal favorites... This does look like a good idea... Maybe people have blacked out any memory of him or maybe because he came and went so fast but Michael Smith from BYU should be on the list since he was the 13th pick in 1989 draft and he was actually publicized by some as the next Larry Bird - Top College Players Who Failed in NBA

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Dick Tuck - perhaps the most fascinating political operative in history... Eli Manning's contract makes him the highest paid QB in the NFL but I'd bet on average 10 QB's are taken before him in fantasy football drafts. I'd take Brady, Peyton, Brees, Warner, Cutler, Ryan, Roethlisberger, McNabb, Romo and Palmer all before Eli Manning... Heh heh - Ferris Bueller: Psychopath... Just saying that the grass is not always greener - JD Drew has played 344 games with the Red Sox and hit a HR on average every 33 AB since joining the team. In that same time frame Johnny Damon has played 41 more games and average a HR every 34 AB... There is a report that the Red Sox have put in a claim on Cristian Guzman. I believe it. Checking the Red Sox minor league depth at SS and man is it depressing. You have to go to Single A Salem to find a SS hitting above .220... Pure gold- John Hughes' Vacation 58 - the short story the movie Vacation was base on... The O/U for Notre Dame wins this season is 9. Yikes! I was willing to take the over at 8 but 9? Don't think so... A one-man stage show of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea starring Erik Estrada would be so bad it's good in a Springtime for Hitler type way.