with the wind to your back...
today was a refreshing change of pace, and plenty of interesting things going on to boot...
the highlight of the day is easy to identify: manny ramirez getting knocked down by jc romero, and then manny stepping back into the box and launching a 400 ft. shot off the wall for a 2 RBI HR... good times...
(for those of you following the sox: what's going on with all of these throwing/fielding errors? some of it's just shocking... i understand that a lot of the regular guys are out and that the artificial turf is a little bit faster, but c'mon, these are just ridiculous to watch... i threw my hat three times today watching them try to give away the win with eleven runs scored...
on the plus side, i got to see schilling stop the bleeding as the closer... maybe that's too much credit, but it was nice to see him pitch... although it's too bad wake couldn't finish the game--that possibililty, i believe, was blown on a Cora error with a botched throw to first)
enough baseball...
it was really refreshing to get out of town and up to Minneapolis to see the game. a bunch of friends were up there, and a guy from medical school came with me (you bostonians would be shocked at how difficult it was to GIVE a ticket away here). it turned out that my med school friend and i had a lot in common in professional interests (lots of infectious disease, public health, human rights, international medicine sort of stuff) and he's a really nice guy to boot... plus, anyone willing to drive me there--that's points in my book...
the whole trip was really refreshing, and i feel much better equipped to tackle the coming week. if i didn't get out of here for that game, i think that it this would have felt like a long 10 day week with no let up... thankfully, the outing and a sox win wiped the slate clean...
on a totally different note, i was listening to an archived episode of This American Life, an NPR radio program out of chicago, and the opening to the show had this little vignette that i thought was really quite funny. each episode of the show has a theme, and the theme of this one was a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous. anyway, there were these two individuals discussing architecture, and they have no idea what they're really talking about--just the barest smidgeon of superficial knowledge--and they get onto the topic of just that: talking at length about something you really know very little about, and they come up with an imaginary magazine or journal devoted such matters.
It's title: Modern Jackass
So, for instance, you may have heard something about how mitochondria play some role in different diets being better for you because of something else, and you proceed to give your friends a discourse about it, at length, over brunch. "Is that really true?," they might ask. "Sure," you say. "I read it this month's issue of Modern Jackass."
I really enjoy that expression--it's popped into my vernacular already, with two or three appearances today. Check out the episode archived in 2005 under the title "A Little Bit of Knowledge" at www.thisamericanlife.com... enjoy...
When you leave the metrodome, there's this big pressure differential from the inside to the outside (that's what holds up the dome, right? the pressure? or is another appearance of Modern Jackass), and as you're walking between the two, there's this huge backdraft. It really caught me by surprise and I nearly lost my hat... it's quite the "how's your father?"
anyway, i've got a quiz tomorrow and quite a bit of reading, so i'm off...
you stay classy, san diego!
cheers,
the highlight of the day is easy to identify: manny ramirez getting knocked down by jc romero, and then manny stepping back into the box and launching a 400 ft. shot off the wall for a 2 RBI HR... good times...
(for those of you following the sox: what's going on with all of these throwing/fielding errors? some of it's just shocking... i understand that a lot of the regular guys are out and that the artificial turf is a little bit faster, but c'mon, these are just ridiculous to watch... i threw my hat three times today watching them try to give away the win with eleven runs scored...
on the plus side, i got to see schilling stop the bleeding as the closer... maybe that's too much credit, but it was nice to see him pitch... although it's too bad wake couldn't finish the game--that possibililty, i believe, was blown on a Cora error with a botched throw to first)
enough baseball...
it was really refreshing to get out of town and up to Minneapolis to see the game. a bunch of friends were up there, and a guy from medical school came with me (you bostonians would be shocked at how difficult it was to GIVE a ticket away here). it turned out that my med school friend and i had a lot in common in professional interests (lots of infectious disease, public health, human rights, international medicine sort of stuff) and he's a really nice guy to boot... plus, anyone willing to drive me there--that's points in my book...
the whole trip was really refreshing, and i feel much better equipped to tackle the coming week. if i didn't get out of here for that game, i think that it this would have felt like a long 10 day week with no let up... thankfully, the outing and a sox win wiped the slate clean...
on a totally different note, i was listening to an archived episode of This American Life, an NPR radio program out of chicago, and the opening to the show had this little vignette that i thought was really quite funny. each episode of the show has a theme, and the theme of this one was a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous. anyway, there were these two individuals discussing architecture, and they have no idea what they're really talking about--just the barest smidgeon of superficial knowledge--and they get onto the topic of just that: talking at length about something you really know very little about, and they come up with an imaginary magazine or journal devoted such matters.
It's title: Modern Jackass
So, for instance, you may have heard something about how mitochondria play some role in different diets being better for you because of something else, and you proceed to give your friends a discourse about it, at length, over brunch. "Is that really true?," they might ask. "Sure," you say. "I read it this month's issue of Modern Jackass."
I really enjoy that expression--it's popped into my vernacular already, with two or three appearances today. Check out the episode archived in 2005 under the title "A Little Bit of Knowledge" at www.thisamericanlife.com... enjoy...
When you leave the metrodome, there's this big pressure differential from the inside to the outside (that's what holds up the dome, right? the pressure? or is another appearance of Modern Jackass), and as you're walking between the two, there's this huge backdraft. It really caught me by surprise and I nearly lost my hat... it's quite the "how's your father?"
anyway, i've got a quiz tomorrow and quite a bit of reading, so i'm off...
you stay classy, san diego!
cheers,
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