Miscellaneous

Pepsi Riots, the Hot Hand, and 33 Pieces of Advice Another of my emerging favorites at Medium talks about the great Pepsi Filipino riots of the early 1990s [https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd] . Unbelievable story. It's unbelievable because (i) it

> Objectively the best moment in Lewis' Space Trilogy is in the third book were the guy's PhD advisor is literally working for Satan. https://t.co/vbFVJJmckr > — The Distributist (@DataDistribute) August 13, 2020 [https://twitter.com/DataDistribute/status/1293933373883203584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Related: The

Click here [https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1292929165658914817] if you haven't followed Professor Robert George's ongoing account of anecdotal evidence that it is increasingly necessary for people to write, Tweet, and blog under an anonymous name. I guess it's only a matter of time

Kuehnelt-Leddin There are thinkers who are so far to the left or right, they fall off the spectrum altogether. On the left, I put thinkers like Ralph Nader and Ivan Illich. On the right, I put a thinker named Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddin [https://amzn.to/3kBkptK], a man

Manly Math This is pretty funny: "College math prof says 'the idea that math is in any way objective is a MYTH' that 'reeks of white supremacist patriarchy [https://disrn.com/news/not-the-bee-college-math-prof-says-idea-that-math-is-in-any-way-

Bowling to Sharks My apologies for missing the past couple of days. I intended to blog from Boston, but only put out the single piece from Wednesday. Sightseeing got out of hand: candlepin bowling [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling]; Salem; evening boat tour; walking around downtown and in

Boston Massachusetts travel ban and Hurricane Isaias. Passed. I'm in Boston now, visiting my daughter. Okay, it's not Boston. It's Brookline. Technically, I suppose it's a suburb, but if you know Boston, such "suburbs" blend right into Boston proper. Think

> 🗣SEND IT @gonepatrol [https://twitter.com/gonepatrol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] (via ig:Gio_masters) > pic.twitter.com/443DZMpnwJ [https://t.co/443DZMpnwJ] > — Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) August 3, 2020 [https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1290407303649386496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

A Medium Monday The Medium.com experiment is going well. I'm getting articles "curated [https://findingtom.com/how-to-get-curated-on-medium-examples/]," which is important to reach other Medium subscribers and to earn a little beer money. I've found two writers I

Barrel of Gifts The naked dude with a barrel really was once a thing. But it apparently wasn't for broke people, but for hungover people. If someone got really drunk, bosses from James I to Civil War commanders made the drunkards wear them as punishment [https://vinepair.com/