All about baseball player’s rituals, taboos, and talismans. My favorite one:
There is a taboo against crossing bats, against permitting one bat to rest on top of another. Although this superstition appears to be dying out among ballplayers today, it was religiously observed by some of my teammates. One of my Hispanic teammates became quite annoyed when another player tossed a bat from the batting cage and it landed on top of his bat. Later he explained that the top bat might steal hits from the lower one. In his view, bats contained a finite number of hits, a sort of baseball “image of limited good.” For Pirate shortstop Honus Wagner, a charter member of baseball’s Hall of Fame, each bat contained only 100 hits and never more. Regardless of the quality of the bat, he would discard it after its 100th hit.
I used to wear the same t-shirt under my lacrosse jersey for every game until it basically disintegrated from repeated washing and wearing. /via things
Songs I’ve been abusing lately: Television by You Won’t & The Woodpile by Frightened Rabbit (video).
Paul Miller talks about his year offline. Two points that stood out to me:
The Internet (or fill in the blank with any thing: booze, shopping, work, etc.) isn’t the problem, we are:
What I do know is that I can’t blame the internet, or any circumstance, for my problems. I have many of the same priorities I had before I left the internet: family, friends, work, learning. And I have no guarantee I’ll stick with them when I get back on the internet — I probably won’t, to be honest. But at least I’ll know that it’s not the internet’s fault. I’ll know who’s responsible, and who can fix it.
And, the Internet isn’t the absence of interaction with real people, but a tool for being social:
But the internet isn’t an individual pursuit, it’s something we do with each other. The internet is where people are.
Don’t get me wrong. I do think we should spend less time online, but it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
The border wall, illuminated at night in Nogales, Arizona, on July 6, 2012. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
From In Focus’s On the Border.
For years, a violent drifter with a long arrest record has roamed the wilderness of southern Utah, trapping what he eats, raiding weekend cabins for supplies, and evading one of the biggest manhunts in the West. He’s armed, dangerous, and desperate to stay free.
File this under real-life bogeyman in the woods, like the Goatman.
They are often sad, occasionally tragic, usually comic undertakings by people (including middle-aged men) who know they should be doing something else.
This hour, we spend the entire episode on the story of Kelley and Tom, whose daughter was born at 23 weeks and 6 days, roughly halfway to full term. Their story contains an entire universe of questions about the lines between life and death, reflex and will, and the confusing tug of war between two basic moral touchstones: doing no harm…and doing everything in our power to help.
My son was born 5 weeks early. I was nodding my head to a lot of what Kelley and Tom said in this episode; those feelings of helplessness and hope constantly swapping places.
The following is an example of a 12-station HICT program. All exercises can be done with body weight and implements easily acquired in almost any setting (e.g., home, office, hotel room, etc.). The exercise order allows for a total body exercise to significantly increase the heart rate while the lower, upper, and core exercises function to maintain the increased heart rate while developing strength.Exercises are performed for 30 seconds, with 10 seconds of transition time between bouts. Total time for the entire circuit workout is approximately 7 minutes. The circuit can be repeated 2 to 3 times. 1. Jumping jacks Total body 2. Wall sit Lower body 3. Push-up Upper body 4. Abdominal crunch Core 5. Step-up onto chair Total body 6. Squat Lower body 7. Triceps dip on chair Upper body 8. Plank Core 9. High knees/running in place Total body 10. Lunge Lower body 11. Push-up and rotation Upper body 12. Side plank Core
I think Temple of Doom may have been the best Jones movie, right? At least looking at the posters. Not sure I can let my son watch that one though, with the whole heart ripping out business.
Jake the Dog
"I hear if you go to the site and do the Konami Code ( ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A ) something dope happens." Something dope indeed.
"The descriptions of the Bunyip’s physical form can vary, though most depictions of the beast show it as an enormous dog-hippopotamus with flippers."
"The Good Night Lamp is a family of internet-connected lamps. Turn the Big Lamp on and the Little Lamps turn on wherever they are." Via http://russelldavies.typepad.com/
"Public school students would get a half day off from school rather than the traditional full day to attend The Great Frederick Fair, under a proposal being considered by the Frederick County Board of Education." I kind of like the kids getting a full day off to go to the fair. I hope they keep it.
Optimise styles for small screens with @media queries & viewport meta Add touch support - 44px x 44px minimum tap size Don't rely on :hover, or mouseover events to get to content
Loved the diagrams of hand position as it relates to navigation.
Hmmmm ... should my condo smell of hunting lodge or distillery? /via www.uncrate.com
From Wikipedia: "Belle Isle is a 54-acre island of the James River in the city of Richmond, Virginia.[2] Once home to a nail works, granite quarry, and hydroelectric plant, during the American Civil War, it was used as a prisoner-of-war camp. Today it serves as a city park. Belle Isle has many bike trails around the island, and has a small cliff used for rock climbing instruction." More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Isle_(Richmond,_Virginia)