The Stuff I'm Thinking About
I m a huge baseball fan. I follow the Mets all season long, tied to my TV or phone for (almost) all 162 games. I m a scoreboard watcher for most of August through the end of the season, depending on whether the Mets are in the playoff hunt. And I watch the post-season games regardless of [ ]
If you told me on Opening Day that, on August 2nd, the Mets would be basically out of the playoff chase, starting multiple players I hadn t heard of before tonight, and no longer have Max Scherzer or Justin Verlander on their roster, I d have thought you were crazy. But here we are, with our eyes [ ]
The 2023 MLB All-Star Game was a snoozefest. A 3-2 game that took more than three hours to mercifully end, highlighted by an MVP performance by a guy who probably shouldn t have even been on the team. Most fans didn t bother to watch. It drew just a hair more than 7 million viewers, an all-time [ ]
The story is below; the screenshots are underneath, as proof that ChatGPT wrote this with my minimal prompting. Iron Man was a man of many talents. In addition to being a brilliant inventor and a skilled fighter, he was also a natural leader. So when he announced that he was running for President, many people [ ]
If you re reading this, you are in the situation I was in two weeks ago: in a fit of decluttering, I ended up with a hundred or so old books, almost all in very good condition, that I had zero use for. And not wanting to see the books go to waste, I wanted to [ ]
This hit my Twitter timeline a few minutes ago and now I m obsessed with answering it. It turns out that I m really well-suited to answer this because: (a) I m really into MCU (that s Marvel Cinematic Universe, for the non-Spidey web-crawlers out there). I ve seen all the movies except Thor: Dark World (which I ll rectify at [ ]
Earlier this month, I sent out a survey to the readers of Now I Know. More than 2,700 people responded! Thank you for participating if you did; if you didn t, you re still OK by me. Let s jump into the results. 1) Pick One The Harry Potter edition I asked readers to pick their Hogwarts house or [ ]
It really bothers me how toxic the Internet has become. It has such power to connect people with such positive results a power I ve been the beneficiary of and yet, we default, too often, for the opposite. The Internet should be a tool for kindness and empathy; of late, in particular, it seems [ ]
Ingredients (Wherever possible, I m linking to the actual product I used.) Olive oil Cumin seeds – about a tablespoon, maybe more. I was liberal with it. Garlic – I have a jar of chopped garlic, and I use a lot of it, like 2-3 tablespoons, but I’m a bit nuts. Two small/medium onions, sliced Two 15.5 [ ]
I ve read each of the Harry Potter books multiple times. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (HBP), Dumbledore takes Harry through a half-dozen memories some his, some those of others that the Headmaster has collected. And for years, something was troubling me about them they didn t add up. Over the last few days, [ ]