I just got home — a little later than I’d planned — from Coors Field, after watching, in person, “one of the strangest games ever in Denver,” a 14-inning affair that ended in the first walkoff grand slam in Rockies history (and the first grand slam I’ve ever personally witnessed, never mind a 14th-inning walkoff slam), with my Dad. Pretty… Read more »
Hurricane Bill is no more, downgraded to a Tropical Storm — and simultaneously declared extratropical — at 5:00 AM EDT today, after lashing Atlantic Canada yesterday and overnight. Dr. Jeff Masters has a round-up of Bill’s impacts on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Most notable, to me, is this tidbit: “At Peggys Cove, three men were hit by a giant wave… Read more »
In keeping with my post last weekend showing off a few photos of fruits and flowers, here are some of my shots from our visit to the Denver Botanical Gardens today: And here’s one from a few days ago — a tomato from our garden.
At one point yesterday, for a minute or two, the top of the countdown box in my blog’s sidebar at right briefly looked like this: I quickly fixed it, and was amused when I realized what the problem was. I had accidentally entered the date of Monday’s Rockies-Giants game at Coors Field — which my Dad and I have tickets… Read more »
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Remember the 2008 NCAA basketball national title game between Memphis and Kansas? The overtime thriller made possible by the Jayhawks’ never-say-die tenacity, the Tigers’ poor free-throw shooting down the stretch, and Mario Chalmers’ amazing shining moment at the end of regulation? You know… the shot they’ll be talking about in Kansas for, well, as long as there’s a Kansas? You… Read more »
If the FlightAware tracker is to be believed, my parents’ flight from Hartford to Chicago appears to have done some bizarre loop-de-loops over Indiana, not far from South Band. I wonder what that’s all about? Some sort of vortex caused by Northern Indiana becoming the center of the political universe? Evasive maneuvers to avoid being impacted by the ongoing Rust… Read more »
Alan Sullivan, in a post about Hurricane Bill titled “Sideswipe“: “Bill is a sideswiper.” My brain, involuntarily: “Swiper, no swiping! Swiper, no swiping!” This is what having a 19-month-old will do to you..
I’m not sure if AppleCare covers this. Heh.
Here are some gorgeous satellite photos of Category 4 Hurricane Bill — taken at 1:15 PM, 3:15 PM and 5:15 PM EDT, respectively — courtesy of the wide and narrow RGB satellite loops: