Saturday, November 25, 2006

College football confusion.

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I spent most of Friday watching games I didn't much care about, with the exception of Arkansas/LSU, about which I had mixed feelings. L...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I break holiday radio silence briefly ...

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... to note that Mickey Kaus has attempted to explain something that has long puzzled me (indeed, I've posted about it here, but am too ...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

A joyous Thanksgiving to all.

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I'm taking a break from blogging for the next few days, in order to prepare for and enjoy the holiday (we'll be visiting friends in ...
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Saturday, November 18, 2006

College football yuck!

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Everything turns out as I feared it might ; i.e. Rutgers falls to Cincinatti and my USF Bulls get roughed up by Louisville. All I can hope f...
Friday, November 17, 2006

Another loss for the dismal science.

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The year 2006 has seen the passing of two towering figures in economics, one, John Kenneth Galbraith, literally so, the other, Milton Fried...
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Didn't get the memo?

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Walking through Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan, this morning, I spotted this bird calmly watching passers-by on the footpath...
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The dark side of the Force.

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A couple of years ago, NASA was ready to give up on the Hubble Space Telescope, apparently content to allow it to go dark. Now, there are p...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Well worth reading.

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Keifus on a great kick .
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The Irish Hunger Memorial

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The Irish Hunger Memorial is in Battery Park City, on the west side of lower Manhattan. Approaching it from the southeast, one gets the im...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Go West, by God!

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Every once in a while I find a blog that's worth special mention, and the latest is The Goat Rope . El Cabrero serves up an irresistabl...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Exit Nine divine! Rutgers a BCS contender?

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Read it and believe . Well, the Scarlet Knights had tradition on their side. It's been 137 years and three days since they won the firs...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Mandatory post-election comments.

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The Bush press conference just ended. He handled it better than I expected. The cockiness and the smirk were gone, though the customary jo...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Color guard for a parade that wasn't.

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This powerful Army Corps of Engineers tug, flying a plus-sized flag, was meant to lead the WW II veteran aircraft carrier Intrepid as she w...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

QM 2 again, The Bridge again, autumn flowers and kayaks on the East River.

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Queen Mary 2 was back at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal today. The late afternoon sun highlighted her British Merchant Navy "red duster...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

College football quickie.

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Florida gets by Vandy (I was cautionary about this), and wins SEC East with help from former victim LSU. My out-on-a-limb prediction is th...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill retrospective.

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Another Slate link well worth pursuing takes you to this slide show , compiled by Witold Rybczynski, which documents SOM's contribution...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

The best cut is the cheapest.

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Slate has a piece by Mark Schatzker on the searing question for us carnivores: what makes for a good steak? There are several variables co...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The Merchant Marine Memorial.

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This memorial, by the sculptor Marisol , is positioned just off the northern end of the pedestrian promenade that extends around the seaward...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happy Oiche Shamhna.

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Time to light your fire . Update: the Cosmos says "Boo!"
Monday, October 30, 2006

A good day to fly a kite.

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The heavy winds that have been battering the Northeast abated some today, but there was still enough of a stout breeze this morning to keep ...

Urban daytime astronomy.

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Sounds impossible? Look at today's astronomy picture for a daylight shot of a crescent moon about to eclipse a crescent Venus, taken i...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

College football bash.

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Thank you, MSNBC, for defying authorities academic and municipal by continuing to call the Florida-Georgia game by its proper name, the Wor...
Friday, October 27, 2006

Real baseball wins!

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The Cardinals of the RBL (Real Baseball League) defeated the Tigers of the DHL (Designated Hitter League), four games to one. Eat crow, all ...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The na-a-a-me game!

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I'd have guessed that, since my father's death, I was the last Claude Scales left on earth, much less the U.S. Thanks to a site cal...
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Another rousing cheer for Stephenie Hollyman

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I'm very impressed by this slide show of McAllister tugs, and their crews, docking ships in the Port of New York/New Jersey. The ship n...

Slate's Green Challenge

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Take it.
Sunday, October 22, 2006

The walk home from the parking lot.

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We park our car in a lot nestled next to the abutment of the Brooklyn Bridge. Yesterday I took a few pictures walking home from the lot, go...
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How baseball history was made on my street.

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Brooklyn Heights Blog ran a piece a few days ago on Jackie Robinson's signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945 at what was then Dodge...
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Friday, October 20, 2006

"The Catch"

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Endy Chavez's spectacular, leaping catch in the final NLCS game, doomed to be a footnote because of the Mets' loss, is compared in t...

Go Cardinals!

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Not that I have anything against Detroit. It's just that they're in the league that plays a debased version of the game; one in whi...
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