Book Review: Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Wilhelm Hohenzollern: The Last of the Kaisers by Emil Ludwig is a 1927 biography of Emperor Wilhelm II written fairly soon after World War I, by which time Wilhelm was…
Realized Gains Become Losses
Discovered this while checking out transactions on a 401(k): I lost a total of $1.29 across four mutual funds for realized gains. WTF?!? What I don't know is whom receives…
Book Review: Little Journeys Towards Paris
The complete title caught my attention: Little Journeys Towards Paris 1914-1918: A Guide Book for Confirmed Tourists by W. Hohenzollern. A tourist guide written and published during World War I?…
Meandering Thoughts #69
A LinkedIn rant which is definitely old news: I dreamed of living overseas in London, so after my divorce in 1992 I moved to Sutton, Surrey to take a Solutions…
ADS-B Feeder and Minnesota Summers
I mounted my Raspberry Pi ADS-B feeder outside my office to avoid damage to the coax as it passes through the window (original 1896 pocket windows with unhelpful storm windows);…
Truth in Capacity
The Minnesota Twins claim that attendance at yesterday's Athletics/Twins game was 19,701 or 51% of total capacity. Having attended said game, I will confidently state that attendance was substantially less,…
Random Learnings #71
While flipping through the Britannica Book of the Year 1948 at breakfast, I read Denmark's entry: The question of U.S. privileges in Greenland, Denmark's great island, was raised vociferously by…
Book Review: The Phoenix Land
From the Amazon listing: This fascinating memoir, written on the heals of Banffy's famous Transylvanian Trilogy, describes life in the post-World War I kingdom of Hungary. Banffy brilliantly describes both…
New-Age Stats?!?
The first half statistics for Friday's Storm/Fever game had me puzzled: how does one evaluate 56% vs. 49&? Everyone should know that 56% is a user-friendly presentation of the decimal…
Book Review: Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic
From the early 1900s when baseball was truly America's Game, Major League Baseball, as had all major professional sports in the United States, has had its share of truly bad…