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Posted on November 2, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaAccording to The Internet, I am “linguistically” intelligent.
Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test…
Linguistic
31% Logical, 20% Spatial, 61% Linguistic, 18% Intrapersonal, 8% Interpersonal, 41% Musical, 16% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 39% Naturalistic!
“Verbal-linguistic intelligence has to do with words, spoken or written. People with verbal-linguistic intelligence display a [...]
Read More..>>Hee-Haw! Got y’all in check!
Posted on August 27, 2008 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentJack Schultz at BoomtownUSA feels compelled to compare the state of North Dakota with the city of San Francisco, and decides that North Dakota is superior to San Francisco in every way. I occasionally check in on the BoomtownUSA feeds in my bloglines to read about small-ish (usually mid-western) towns — the kind of towns [...]
Read More..>>2:42
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentJeff has the scoop on the perfect song length — apparently 2:42. Since he showed us his, I’ll show you mine.
Read More..>>John Updike: Early Sabermetrician?
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJoe Posnanski sez:
I’ve always thought that the patron saint of “clutch hitting is a myth†is not Bill James at all, but rather the author John Updiike. In his famous, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu†story about Ted Williams final game, he wrote:
“For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot [...]
bitch is the new black
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentnew time suck found (google hot trends)as i descend into parts of the internet i never new existed, as I ponder questions such as:
Will #29 tawny kitaen be able to catch up with #28 norman mailer?
Curious as to the interest in #58 (obama turban) but when you consider that it falls well behind #45 sasquatch [...]
In which I assert my math-geek prowess
Posted on February 22, 2008 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsDear Mr. Hamill,
Every day there are countless factual errors in your newspaper. I forgive most every one–it’s surely hard work to meet a deadline day in and day out. Every day there are also a handful of cringeworthy efforts at cleverness. These gratuitous wastes of ink are, with rare exception, less forgivable. [...]
Grand Central
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentEvery night, the last bit of terrestrial Manhattan I see is Grand Central Station, and I do not surface again until I’m looking down onto my home in Brooklyn. It serving as my wormhole, then, I was curious enough to watch the American Experience episode on its construction this week.
It also has to do [...]
daggummit
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIf the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then surely the path to the bathroom at the “primitive” rest stop is paved with Essential Lists. Just for fun(?), I’d see which 120 Essential pop records I own.
Spoiler Alert!! Not to be found in this list: Guns N Roses, AC/DC, Michael Jackson, Replacements, [...]
hip-hop powerpoints
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commenta few keepers in here
Read More..>>Breaking Down The Zip Codes
Posted on November 5, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Commentzipskinny.com offers some side-by-side information on U.S. zip codes based on census information, blah, blah, blah….
InI decided to break down where I’m from (68134) versus where I’m at (94118). Some notes:
94118 has a higher median income ($61,609 > $43,294), yet has a higher percentage of people below the poverty line (8.2% > 5.7%).
68134 has a [...]
It’s kind of dangerous to be an M.C.
Posted on August 11, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIndeed, because an earlier productive optimum means that a writer can die younger without loss to his or her ultimate reputation, poets exhibit a life expectancy, across the globe and through history, about a half dozen years less than prose writers do.
Read More..>>It’s funny because it’s true
Posted on August 9, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJoe Posnanski taking a breather from espousing the merits of Pedro Feliz (a position I heartily second) he pisses on the Jason LaRue parade — not that there is one, really.
Tangent: This year, in 127 at-bats, LaRue is hitting .157. That would be a 1 followed by a 5 followed by a 7. Now, many [...]
Power Ranking, this time geography
Posted on July 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWith my best man now in Portland and a friend now in Alaska, there is an even-money chance of my having visited all 50 states by the end of W’s reign of terror. Being in a list-making mood of late [foreshadowing], I thought it’d be a good opportunity to compile a list of my [...]
Read More..>>OTT…NOT / Power Rankings: Hated Cross Words
Posted on July 9, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“OTT”, “ALAI” not NY Times top 300 crossword answers.
So while we’re at it, I’ll throw in my top 5 most hated crosswords (as of right now):
ETE
ERNE
OLLA
ERLE 1
ERAT
Though to be honest, I can’t get terribly worked up over 4-letter crosswords … I guess familiarity breeds contempt after all.
1Not sure why, some of my happiest afternoons were [...]
73 New Galaxies?
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentFrank Chu has apparently confirmed news of an additional 73 galaxies, as seen in this photo from IMPEACH on Flickr:
Suggested Listening: They Might Be Giants - Till My Head Falls Off
There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there’s 30 left
I ate 47 so what happened to the other 10?
19.97
Posted on June 6, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAccording to my last.fm nee audioscrobbler profile, I am 19.97% main stream. My full breakdown here. A few excerpts:
My most mainstream band: The Arcade Fire (58.05%), edging out Bright Eyes (53.12%)
My least mainstream band: Los Chalchaleros (0.04%). Though I am surprised to see these other bands all under 1%: Mayday, David Dondero and The Mendoza [...]
the new pornographers
Posted on June 6, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAs of today: 364 matches for googling: “london 2012″ “lisa simpson giving head”
Read More..>>Iconic?
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThus spake the Associate Press (at ESPN.com) [emphasis mine].
NEW YORK — The Upper Deck Co. has made a pitch to buy The Topps Co., a bid that would join two iconic baseball card makers that have sold sports memorabilia to generations of fans young and old.
And if you trust wikipedia:
Upper Deck Company, LLC (colloquially as [...]
Today was a good day.
Posted on May 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIt started with a walk to Fairway, to pick up some organic bacon or whatever for Mother’s Day. A good view of the Statute of Liberty.
Then we got some plants and tried to make our stoop a garden. I’m pulling for a cucumber, carribean pepper, basil mixture–hopefully in gin or some such.
A tamale [...]
who’s dumber now
Posted on May 7, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentGot an amazing trivia question for you. Who do you think made more money last year, Tiger Woods or Carrot Top? And when they inevitably say “Carrot Top” I can say, “No, Tiger Woods … what are you, some kind of moron? It wasn’t even close. Tiger Woods made like 300 million dollars. Carrot Top [...]
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