NY Times features the top ten burgers as judged by the Burger of the Month Club. My neighborhood spot, Dumont, comes in at #11.
I am completely mesmerized by his setup and delivery. The replays add an extra ‘wow’ when you can see his knuckles nearly scraping the mound.
Since I’ve been on a baseball rampage since the new season started, I’ve had a few baseball articles I’ve been geeking over. An interesting one is from the SF Chronicle contesting the micromanagement of high pitch counts in baseball.
New York Giants pitcher Joe McGinnity, known as “Iron Man,” didn’t start pitching in the major leagues until he was 28. Five times, he pitched both ends of a doubleheader. He worked an astounding 434 innings in the 1903 season, and over his 10-year career racked up 247 wins and 314 complete games. Get this, though: Wandering through the minors until he was 52, McGinnity collected 204 more wins.
It’s interesting how inflated payrolls and contracts changes the perception of stamina and the spirit of the game against the practicality of protecting your financial investment. Pitch count has been an issue, apparently, for major league umpires as well.
Holy crapola. I finally got the balls to do a real playthrough of Bioshock since I was too scared the first time I tried. If your computer can handle it, check out the HD version.
Yooouuutuuube is a YouTube plugin of sorts. It transforms your average YouTube video into a sequential animated sequence of still frames and creates the illusion of multiplicity and other cool effects. Try doing it with 144px by 96px for starters. Some examples here.
Via Tuftsmania.
I went on a two week-ish vacation by accident. It all started when I ran out of coffee beans and then decided that my current blade grinder was insufficient. I finally shelled out money for a conical burr grinder and will resume blogging daily. I’ve had these tabs open for ages and they were supposed to go into WordPress but that was a while ago. More on my twitter, of course.
Russell Shorto of the NY Times compares the Dutch welfare state to America’s notion of socialism. The author jaunts through a list of perks for paying a heftier income tax, such as the $4,265 that was deposited in his account last May for vakantiegeld, or in English, vacation money.
For that matter, even if you are unemployed you still receive a base amount of vakantiegeld from the government, the reasoning being that if you can’t go on vacation, you’ll get depressed and despondent and you’ll never get a job.
I’ve been having some thoughts about moving out of San Francisco for a little while now, though I’d have to do more research before seriously considering it. I promise I’m not being motivated by the vakantiegeld.
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