Jeopardy, Schmepardy
Alright! Let’s show Ken Jennings who’s boss. All of these answers are from historical Jeopardy episodes. Remember:
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Your worldview is skewed
The Mercator Projection is the most recognized map of the world today. Developed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569, it revolutionized sea navigation. It quickly became the de facto view of the world, propogated into classrooms all over the…
Quick Shots
Three very short short stories. My sister was the costume designer for her local high school’s plays for years. I would often fly in to take our mom to see the production. Towards the end, as her mobility decreased, we’d …
Three minutes of Zen
Books, books, books
I read nearly one hundred books in 2023. Before you start planning my ticker tape parade, I should mention that they weren’t all War and Peace. [Editor’s note: None of them were War and Peace.] With that disclaimer, here are…
2023, we hardly knew ye
Or did we? Try this quiz about 2023 events. Feeling cocky? Try 2022. Or 2021.
What’s in a name
Take this picture as a clue to the theme of this crossword puzzle (and the italicized entries). Good luck! Prefer pen and pencil? Here’s a pdf version of the crossword.
I internet so you don’t have to
Sometimes you stumble on one thing that makes it all worthwhile, like Dame Judith Dench reciting Sonnet 29, off the cuff: How does someone even come up with this? If it wasn’t for the Internet, how would we know the…
Fun with Photo Forensics
I thought it might be fun to take an old photograph off the Internet and try to identify details around the picture. I chose a baseball picture first because there is so much supporting data available on the internet around…
He must’ve had his reasons
What was this kid thinking? It all starts with this baseball scorecard from 1965: This has followed me around for fifty plus years , through I don’t know how many moves. I got curious and decided to carbon-date it. It…