Random Learnings #7
In the United States, most team-based sports in high school, college, and professional have The playing of our national anthem precede the start of the match/game/whatever. With the recent influx…
Meandering Thoughts #8
Does any arm-chair marriage counselor actually believe the couple in Escape (The Piña Colada Song) will salvage their relationship simply by switching drink preference and what time they have sex?
Graph Databases and Baseball
In my opinion, stating that baseball remains America's Pastime in 2023 is a tough argument to make, as it often is as the third-most popular sport in the United States.…
My Personal United Airlines Horror Story
Context Summer 2023 finds United Airlines once again in the news for poor service, canceling thousands of flights just prior to a major holiday weekend and blaming the FAA. Their…
Meandering Thoughts #7
In the movie Big, is Susan (played by Elizabeth Perkins) technically raping a child when she (assumedly) makes love with the adult-looking-but-really-thirteen-years-old Josh (played by Tom Hanks)? Officer, really, he…
Meandering Thoughts #6
The best - and most unexpected - outcome of major league baseball's new pitch clock is the reduced time the organist has between pitches and at-bats. I've opined for years…
The Bonsais of Omiya
If your visions or memories of Japan lead to thoughts of bonsai trees, you should visit Omiya, Japan, a town specifically founded for bonsai growers. Omiya Though mentioned as if…
Meandering Thoughts #5
...though truthfully this is less meandering than an every-week frustration when doing work timesheets... My company uses WorkDay for time-tracking. I'll save my rants on time-tracking for another time. WorkDay…
Random Learnings #6
General Mills had supply chain problems during the height of the COVID pandemic that required reformulating Totino's Frozen Pizza 25 times in 26 weeks. It does to questions about the…
Travel and Phone Data
Using your mobile phone during international travel has always been expensive. Pre-smartphone, you'd carefully ration how often you make/take calls because the per-minute charges ratcheted up substantially once out of…