brainwagon

It’s great to see a truly great man tear Zell Miller a new one.

Today’s Gutenberg Gem is Albert Einstein’s Relativity : the Special and General Theory. The author himself describes it thusly in the Preface: The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are [...]

The drubbing of the Oakland A’s at the hands of the Boston Red Sox did two positive things: it reminded me that a great duel between Pedro Martinez and Tim Hudson is yet to come, and it reminded me of another terrific game which happened Labor Day weekend two years ago. Retrosheet Boxscore: Oakland Athletics [...]

Here is another picture from my weekend zoo excursion. Surprisingly, these little guys have proven to be very hard to photograph, largely because they blend into the background so my autofocus fails with disturbing regularity. This is probably the best of the batch that I took this weekend, but the focus is a teeny bit [...]