Random stuff is random

This is the best (and certainly, most hilarious) eulogy for Steinbrenner I've seen.  NYC has nine professional teams over the four major sports, but it is a baseball town. You can follow football, basketball, or hockey or not, have a preferred team or not, but you cannot remain ambivalent about baseball. You don't even have to understand the game, but you must choose a side.

LJ is about to purge all deleted accounts/inactive users.  This includes all comments in other journals and all posts to communities.  I'm going through all the fic I read on LJ and saving copies of it.  (Aaargh, huge task.)

I'm re-reading Guns, Germs, and Steel after getting it back from having been lent out for several years--haven't read it since college.  I'm enjoying it; it's a good read, with lots of interesting information (most of which I had forgotten).  Since Jared Diamond's  New Yorker fraud was "journalism" and not "science" and nobody's ever poked any serious holes in the science of Guns, Germs, and Steel that I know of (despite it's being over ten years old and revolutionary in a lot of ways), I'm going to assume the science is good.  (I have my doubts about a couple of personal anecdotes he uses early on to talk about what got him thinking along these lines, but they're illustrations, not evidence, and so even if he made them up it's not any worse than, say Josephus making up Eleazar's speech the night before the fall of Masada in his Jewish War.)

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I'm pleased God made my skin black. I wish He had made it thicker.

--Curt Flood (7 gold gloves, 3x all star. Pioneer in breaking the color barrier and MLB reserve clause.)

Quote courtesy of Ken Burns' Baseball documentary.