34 thoughts on “December 8, 2024: Expansion”

  1. Replaced the 37” Visio purchased back in 2011 with a 48” LG OLED earlier this year after the Vizio’s display started to have reoccurring problems. The size footprint of the two TVs was pretty close and each uses a central stand, but that’s about all the similarity they share.

  6. After many, many years of staying home on New Year's Eve, we pulled the trigger on a night on the town this year. But not wanting to drive that night, I a good deal on a room at the W in the Foshay, dinner reservations at The Local, and then Rhapsody in Blue at Orchestra Hall. Cocktails and frivolity to follow.

          2. That would be a very cool debate. If you want someone in the hall with less than a xxx WAR, you have to cut someone else with a similar lower WAR. (or some other criteria).

        2. I am one who believes Allen is a deserving selection. He had to deal with so much hatred during his career, but the dude averaged 5.1 rWAR through age 30 (his first 9 seasons plus a cup of coffee in 1963).

          For comparison, Miguel Cabrera averaged 4.7 his first ten. Bryce Harper, 4.0. Frank Thomas, 5.3.

        3. It's weird that bb-ref counts him as a third baseman when he has more games at first base. A 52.3 JAWS is pretty close to the average 3B JAWS of 56.3, and it's even closer to the 53.4 average for first basemen, but there are so many more first basemen, and their average is brought down a lot by some questionable choices like George Kelly and some deserving Negro League inductees whose stats just aren't directly comparable to players who got to play in MLB.

          The 10th-best JAWS at 1B is Thome's 57.3. The 10th-best JAWS at 3B is Rolen's 56.9. Allen doesn't make either of those bars, but he's not miles away, either.

      1. Organic II is the superior class. It's twice as good!

        Organic I is all the underlying rules and uses a bunch of reactions that don't work in real life but are textbook interesting,
        Organic II is where students get to apply the rules and actually learn and do some organic chemistry that works!

        1. I found that I laid out the rules nicely and the lab was correspondingly straightforward, but II said "nah, check out this stuff that doesn't play by the rules so much - better get used to it."

          If you've ever seen the Colbert Questionert when Stephen asks "What's you're least favorite smell?" for me it has to be a mystery component/byproduct of one of our labs. It was weird enough to make you queasy at just a hint of it. Like a chemical roadkill

          1. I synthesized butyric acid in a h.s. organic chem class. That was "fun."

            I think the plan had been to throw it in the visiting team's locker room at a basketball game, but I didn't follow through.

        2. I hated Organic 1 so much, I switched majors from bio to physics.

          The fact that my physics professor was one of the best I had in undergrad and my organic professor was by far the worst certainly played a role there as well.

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