Mini blog update: I'm still in the sling, and typing is still a chore, but, hopefully, it will come off tomorrow. Then I can go back to not-posting with two hands.
-t
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
This 11 points blog is a great read. Frying turkeys, movies reviews, fun facts, you name it...and quotes like this:
-t
Once you open someone's eyes to a food orgy, they can never un-see it...
-t
Friday, May 15, 2009
Softball & Injury Update
Sorry for the delay, I've been typing since Wednesday morning, left-handed, because my right arm is out of commission.
The game started off strong. we were smoking the other team (who couldn't hit at all) and I'd made a few good stops in the field (and one put out on a kid going second to third which turned a routine 6-3 ground ball into a 6-3-5 DP. Bad base running).
Anyway in my first at bat I tried stretching a single into a double after a bobble in the outfield, git beat to the bag by the throw (a good three feet), and tried jumping over the tag, which, if it had worked would have put me in short center field, where I would have been out anyway, but I never made it, because their shortstop, an ogre of a kid swung the tag around at hip-height, taking out both my legs, up-ending me in the process, and sending me, shoulder-first, into the hard-as-concrete-painted-like-dirt infield.
I lost my glasses, and couldn't move my right arm. Took one pitch the next inning at first base (soft liner, right to me), then walked off the field, unable to throw, or hold a bat, or even lift my right arm.
I drove myself back, fearing a dislocated shoulder (not the injury as much as the repair), and went to the hospital.
x-rays revealed a distal clavicular fracture. No sports activities for 4-6 weeks. arm in a sling for at least two.
Hence, the left-handed typing.
-t
The game started off strong. we were smoking the other team (who couldn't hit at all) and I'd made a few good stops in the field (and one put out on a kid going second to third which turned a routine 6-3 ground ball into a 6-3-5 DP. Bad base running).
Anyway in my first at bat I tried stretching a single into a double after a bobble in the outfield, git beat to the bag by the throw (a good three feet), and tried jumping over the tag, which, if it had worked would have put me in short center field, where I would have been out anyway, but I never made it, because their shortstop, an ogre of a kid swung the tag around at hip-height, taking out both my legs, up-ending me in the process, and sending me, shoulder-first, into the hard-as-concrete-painted-like-dirt infield.
I lost my glasses, and couldn't move my right arm. Took one pitch the next inning at first base (soft liner, right to me), then walked off the field, unable to throw, or hold a bat, or even lift my right arm.
I drove myself back, fearing a dislocated shoulder (not the injury as much as the repair), and went to the hospital.
x-rays revealed a distal clavicular fracture. No sports activities for 4-6 weeks. arm in a sling for at least two.
Hence, the left-handed typing.
-t
Monday, May 04, 2009
Not A Superfan
I didn't know this bit of Star Wars trivia.
Apparently, today is Star Wars day. Which, fine, ok, whatever.
BUT
Do you know why TODAY is Star Wars day?
Because it's 5/4 and people can say "MAY the FOURTH be with you"
which is probably the worst thing I have ever heard....ever.
-t
Apparently, today is Star Wars day. Which, fine, ok, whatever.
BUT
Do you know why TODAY is Star Wars day?
Because it's 5/4 and people can say "MAY the FOURTH be with you"
which is probably the worst thing I have ever heard....ever.
-t
Friday, May 01, 2009
Back-of-the-Napkin
A quick back of the napkin calculation (arrived after researching Half & Half varieties, and seeing the Jesus Shuttlesworth variant)
Ray Allen trails Reggie Miller by just over 260 three-pointers for the all time NBA record.
Ray Allen nets almost 40% of the threes he takes (career 0.398).
Which means, to make 260 three-pointers he needs to attempt 650.
Ray Allen averages 6.1 3-pt attempts per game, which means
He'll need to play 108 more games to break Reggie Miller's all time three-point scoring record.
(assuming, of course 3PA, 3P%, etc remain the same).
Allen has averaged 62 games per season over his career, though three seasons were shortened significantly by injury. I expect 70-75 games is closer to normal, and with that assumption, Ray needs to play one and one-half seasons to hold the record free and clear.
Which is half a season longer than his contract with the Celtics. Here's hoping he can stick around.
-t
(stats from basketball-reference
Ray Allen trails Reggie Miller by just over 260 three-pointers for the all time NBA record.
Ray Allen nets almost 40% of the threes he takes (career 0.398).
Which means, to make 260 three-pointers he needs to attempt 650.
Ray Allen averages 6.1 3-pt attempts per game, which means
He'll need to play 108 more games to break Reggie Miller's all time three-point scoring record.
(assuming, of course 3PA, 3P%, etc remain the same).
Allen has averaged 62 games per season over his career, though three seasons were shortened significantly by injury. I expect 70-75 games is closer to normal, and with that assumption, Ray needs to play one and one-half seasons to hold the record free and clear.
Which is half a season longer than his contract with the Celtics. Here's hoping he can stick around.
-t
(stats from basketball-reference
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