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The Third Millennium Touchstone

Time was that if you had to find a phone number, you checked your Rolodex. If you needed to see if you had …

The Top 100 Star Trek Episodes Of All Time!

A pretty good list with all series well represented. While some may dispute any given episode’s placement, there aren’t any glaring gaffs.

The Annoying Test Question

Back in the way back, I, like everyone else, had to take a lot of standardized tests in school. Actually, 99th-percentile me tended …

Domestic Violence, Sports, and Judgments

In recent weeks, the NFL has come under fire for its handling of a number of cases of abuse by its athletes …

A thing produced by humans has two meanings: the original one intended upon its creation, and the evolved one currently held in the public’s opinion.
CJ Carter

→ September 6, 2014

I take great comfort in the fact that the universe is mindbogglingly big and that I will one day die. It helps give me the necessary context to keep from taking the things we do too seriously. Amazingly, given the span of cosmic time scales compared to a human lifetime, and my complete irrelevance when set against the backdrop of the entirety of the universe, I still try to do the things I do the best I can, and try to do better today than I did yesterday. It seems important, somehow…so why not?

For one Elena Delle Donne fan, it’s gotta be the shoes – ESPN

Time was that male athletes weren’t surrounded by entourages and they gave their autographs for free. Time was. One of the things I love about women’s sports is that time still is, as demonstrated by another article by the doesn’t-get-praised-enough Mechelle Voepel

World Cup Has Precedent of Installing Grass – NYTimes.com

I just wish that FIFA, the IOC, and so many other sports organizations would finally stop marginalizing (or sexualizing) the women’s side of sports.

I wonder who the first human will be to die in space, never to return to eir mother planet?

While space travelers have died, to this point all have returned their atoms to the world that bore them. Eventually a spaceship will be lost, a star voyager will float away, a suit will no longer sustain, or a lander on some foreign body will fail to ascend. At that point, we will have crossed the Rubicon and proved our commitment to the exploration of the Universe.

Pen. Ink. Fingers. Augh. Papertowel. Water. Soap. Blue. Write.

NWSL officiating: The narrative and the statistics

Officiating is a problem in every sport. Personally, I think more cards (even post-game) for flopping/diving would help make an official’s life easier in the long run.

Thought Catalog – 13 Things Homebodies Say And What They Actually Mean

The sad irony is that homebodies make friends with extroverts who will, from time-to-time, succeed in getting the homebodies (against their better judgment) to face the outside world.

Talking to my brother about the 60s and early 70s: “I liked ‘then’ then. I like ‘then’ now. I’m probably going to like ‘then’ in the future.”