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…
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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…
Colors we don’t even have a name for
Just how lapsed of a Catholic are you?
Put it to the test with this quiz of standard Catholic knowledge and basic skills!
Wringing the best out of AI
AI is coming and you can’t do anything about it. Where you currently use a search to make sense of the internet (like Google or Bing) pretty soon you’ll be using one of these AI chatbots like ChatGPT for that…
Well, there goes two hours
Everybody’s got ’em – those movies that, if you stumble onto them while channel surfing, you’ll stop and watch the rest. Not your favorite movies; not the best movies; just your guilty pleasure movies. Here’s some of mine. Hombre Not…
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Death to flying things
Nicknames in sports have been around as long as there have been sports. . But I firmly believe the best sports nickname of all time was retired way back in 1870 with baseball’s Jack “Death to Flying Things” Chapman. There…