Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Aggressive Prophesies would be a good name for a sports betting website... Naval Ravikant's book recommendation list... Can you imagine how good Dave Cowens would have been in today's NBA? He was an 8-time All-Star, 3-time All-NBA and 3-time All-Defensive team who could both guard 7-footers and shoot from the outside. As it is he was a Hall of Famer but he would have been even greater in today's game... Nice resume Mr. Hendrix but... Jimmy Hoffa disappeared on July 30th 1975. I have a perfectly good alibi for that entire day... The ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter. He got his donkey drunk and then couldn't stop laughing while watching the donkey trying to eat figs. That was the ancient equivalent of watching David Hasselhoff trying to eat a cheeseburger I guess... This is another of my all-time favorite baseball photos...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

If it's true that Al Franken is waiting until after the new year to announce his promised resignation from the Senate just so he'll get paid for 2018 then he's really a huge asshole... So did Joe from the Jimmy Hendrix song Hey Joe ever go to jail for shooting his woman down? Or did he actually make it to Mexico?... This road trip may be the top thing on my bucket list... The Patriots are the first team in NFL history to win 12 or more games in 8-straight seasons. And fans in New England are completely taking that for granted at this point. But the fans aren't the only ones spoiled by success - Bill Belichick can't even make the list of candidates for NFL Coach of the Year with just a routine 12 or 13 win season. Greatness shouldn't be taken for granted like this... Heh heh - welcome to New England... Cowboys' coach Jason Garrett seems like the type of person who would get all excited about winning $1 on a $2 scratch ticket... Ned Flanders Erotica would be a good name for a band (or my first NYT bestselling novel)...

Linky Links

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

- Detail from Ferguson shooting may clear police officer

- Cool - Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and Jimmy Hendrix

- Fantastic article on Bernie Kosar

- Map of wealthiest individual in each state

- Maj. General Harold Greene was laid to rest on Saturday. President Obama was golfing at the time of the funeral.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

If I were a minor league baseball team in the bible-belt - I would make my mascot a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. I imagine the hats would sell pretty well on the Internet. I also imagine the death threats would come in at a regular clip... Rich Eisen linked to this exclusive clip of A-Rod on the phone discussing his legal strategy... I wonder if Peyton Manning is ever tempted to use Papa John's time-machine car to go back and prevent Eli from ever being conceived...  Interesting interview with the author of Positive Poker... If the Patriots make the Super Bowl they really should vote a full playoff share to Greg Schiano for trading Legarrette Blount to New England...  Very cool photo of Jimmi Hendrix... I don't think I've ever eaten at McDonald's and thought "I'm lovin' it!" It's always been more along the lines of "I'm gonna regret this!"...

Are You Experienced

Have you ever lost the ability to spell a certain word? For the past two weeks I swear I have lost the ability to spell the word "experience". I get the red-squiggly auto-correct line and have to fix it. Every single time (including this paragraph).

It may be because I thought this cartoon was funny.