12 thoughts on “Hero in a Half Shell”

1. And the paper of record writes about Wes Johnson

   1. I'm glad I clicked that, because I would have remained incredibly confused went anyone would think Wes Johnson is worth writing about.

2. the Mrs and I went to a McCormick & Schmicks last night to celebrate her birthday, on recommendation of a colleague. We'd never been to one.

   The waiter was great. The restaurant was...overpriced and uneven. Not that we had a bad meal. It just wasn't all that impressive. #firstworldproblems

   1. Sheenie was taken there for a work function and told me the same thing

   2. Yeah, that’s been my experience.

3. Against the Day update: pg 325 Kit goes to Göttingen and Pynchon sings That Göttingen Rag, with reference to the Four-Color Problem.

   I had two teachers at UMD in the four-color discussion, Michael Detlefsen (Logic) and Mark Luker (Discrete Math)

4. the Rockies on Sunday Night Baseball wow.

5. White Russian Stella Ar-toes? Dude abides sells out.

6. Not that I’m the first person to point this out, but baseball can be so ridiculous sometimes. No to robot umps because we really need the human element, but if a hitter gets a little too excited about his HR, and a pitcher’s feelings get hurt, it’s only just a warning (bro) to the pitcher, who intended bodily harm as a sort of honor assault.

   So basically right now we have:

   Robot hitters: yes
   Robot umps: no
   Attempted assualt: let’s not get carried away, just a warning please

   1. I'm going to totally agree with you, other than that a pitcher throwing behind a batter is a ball, not attempted assault. If they want to register their irritation that way, I'm okay with it. No harm, no foul ball one.

      1. Most pitches “behind” the hitter only wind up that way because the hitter had the good sense to get out of the way.

         1. Wasn't in this case, but still. I'm not a fan of high-and-tight, but in this one the point was made and no one hurt.

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