CVE by License Plat
Unlikely the car itself represents a CVE but my curiosity took hold: what CVEs may be 905s? Let's query the database and find out! There are 26 distinct CVEs ending…
Family History #1
My grandfather was an intelligent man, always looking for something to keep himself engaged in the world, to keep his brain nimble. While living in his retirement community, he told…
Art Linkletter Gym Dandy Surrey
Fall 1967, 2½ year-old me playing outside at my grandparents' house in Westport, CT. In the background, the family Volkswagen Bug that transported us from our Manhattan apartment. I'm sitting…
The World At My Birth
I was born March 1, 1965, so let's see what made the New York Times the following day, March 2, 1965: Australia Punishes Dawn Fraser For Capers as Olympic Swimmer…
Random Learnings #69
Growing up in Iowa, all I knew of Kossuth County was its unusual size: essentially double the size of other counties in the state, it's the reason Iowa has 99…
Random Learnings #68
The Literary Digest Vol. 50, No. 2 (9 January 1915) shows World War I's impact on Germany less than six months after declaring war, primarily economically but also socially. Die…
Computers IRL #10
The Athletic, the online sports section for the New York Times, posted a long article about John Harbaugh's first thirty days as the coach of the New York Giants. The…
Journalism Fuck-Up
From the Independent's article about the attempted robbery of Simone Biles' husband Milan Olympics: For those uninformed, Mikaela Shiffrin is a female skier, not a male ice skater. Obviously it's…
Unique Hotel
My wife and I visited Iowa City, Iowa last week to attend a University of Iowa women's basketball game, a rather bad loss to Minnesota. Our hotel was Graduate by…
Marching Band Nostalgia II
I've previously post my love of marching bands: the stories I could tell are trivial to most. Scattered across the country - likely world - are 112 people whose story…