Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Elegant weapons for a more or less civilized age
Main body is drum tripod. Special timer attached to right side with belt; copper pot knob-piece taped on for olde timey funke ambience. Laser scope from brother's BB gun taped to top. Gear meter of bicycle attached to top left side. Computer power cable stuck into bottom. Chair wheel inserted into "barrel". Gear-like pieces from my electric shaver attached to lower front with inside of twist-tie.
Meter and cable attach back to...
Main body is a mixer. Asthma inhaler lashed to one side. More pieces from shaver taped to front, as well as computer cable. Gear meter snaked into hole on side.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Just So Stories", by Rudyard Kipling ((c) 1902)
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Herr Doktor Gunther von Vilhelm, MAN OFF SZIENCE!!!!
I haff googles, ein trench-koaten, ein hatski, ein cigar, gloven, really tight booten, undt a really schnazzie bow-tie! Also please to be noten: der VEAPONEN OFF DOOMERIE!
Fear me undt mine schteampunky hypo-schpray, puny mortallen! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! For I am Herr Doktor Gunther von Vilhelm, undt I bring you doomy szience off DOOM!!!!!
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Night Raiders: Israel's Naval Commandos at War", by Samuel M. Katz ((c) 1997)
Labels: biographical, photo
Thursday, March 19, 2009
To all of my friends who are being drafted today
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I voted
First time ever! Shalom Lerner F.T.W. hopefully. (That's my voting instructions I'm holding in front of the booth sign. I'm a noob at picture taking.)
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Hardy Boys #40: Mystery of the Desert Giant", by Franklin W. Dixon ((c) 1960)
Labels: biographical, photo
Saturday, May 24, 2008
127th post
For reference:
Before At the end
Labels: biographical, photo
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
{32X3+32/3-(3&2/3)}st post
Carlos Muniz, currently in the Mets' Spring Training camp at Port St. Lucie, is an outside contender (midnight-pitch black horse, really) for the Opening Day bullpen. Should he somehow make it in, he would do so wearing number 32, thus becoming the Mets' 24th 32-wearer. (Trivia: as of this writing, Muniz is the 821st most popular look-up on the UMDb out of 821 players.)
An ESPN.com article cites #32 as "the most anonymous retired number among the four pro sports leagues"--Jim Umbricht, an Original Astro (or Colt .45), who died of cancer in '64. Another one calls it the most "scientifically" greatest uniform number, citing the sheer talent of past bearers.
Last year, #32 showed up on the backs of MLB players Erick Aybar, Jamie Walker, J.C. Romero, Bobby Kielty, Daryle Ward, LaTroy Hawkins, Virgil Vasquez, Brian Buscher, Shawn Chacon, Chris Young, Kevin Correia, Ron Mahay, Luis Mendoza, Shawn Riggans, Roy Halladay, and Chad Cordero. Meanwhile, Shaquille O'Neal continues to wear #32 in the NBA. These are all the 32s that I know reliably are playing currently.
Three "notable" 32s I have not mentioned previously but are cited by other sources are Bill Walton of the Portland Trail Blazers (NBA), Jack Tatum of the Oakland Raiders (NFL), and Julius Hodge while on the Denver Nuggets (NBA). Besides Koufax, Carlton and Umbricht, the only 32 retired by an MLB club is that of longtime Yankee coach Elston Howard. The NHL's only retired 32 belonged to Dale Hunter of the Washington Capitals. The NBA has retired the 32s of Kevin McHale, Brian Winters, Billy Cunningham, Sean Elliott, Fred Brown, Johnson, Erving and Walton. Meanwhile, Brown and Al Blozis are the only 32s retired by the NFL.
A list published on SI.com some time after that mentioned in the 16th post rearranged the order of the greatest #32s, dropping Jim Brown behind Magic Johnson and adding Walton to the list of runners-up. Accompanying the original list was an article that notes other standout 32s.
To cap this all off, a story: for Purim of 2001, I had run out of ideas and settled for a quickie costume: wearing a long undershirt transformed via the magic of a black marker into the uniform of my all-time favorite pitcher, Sandy Koufax. Problem was, I had no idea what his number was. Throwing caution to the wind, I hastily scribbled down #32 and went forth to Get Candy. I wore it once more for the next Purim too (below).
Imagine my surprise when, just a year after that, I received the "Baseball: An Illustrated History" book, and found within it a photograph of Sandy tossing a high fast one at the batter, shirt in plain sight, and displaying what else but the number... Thirty-Two!
TODAY'S BOOK: "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch", by Jean Lee Latham ((c) 1955)
Labels: 32, baseball, photo, picture, random
Thursday, August 30, 2007
72nd post
(l-r:) Ilan Sivan (now in Moreshet), Natan "Nat" Weisberg (top, now in Othniel), Refael Shafir (bottom, also in Moreshet), and me--the only four boys in the First Graduating Class of Etrog Elementary and the Fifth Graduating Class of Sha'alei Torah High.
Ra'anan Rosenbaum (l, also now in Othniel) and Ya'ir Ben-Chaim (r, unimportant)
Me with Baruch Rosenstein (now in Shiloh)
Me with Yossi Summer (now in Ma'ale Adumim)
Once again, yours truly with Nat, my best buddy.
TODAY'S WEBSITE: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/ Not as easily usable as it used to be, the homepage of my erstwhile favorite TV channel (it's gone down the tubes over the past couple of years) is still your best bet for finding info on their shows, video clips from them, and tons of related games.
* EDIT - Stupid Blogger's making the pictures screw up the whole post. Damn. Oh well.
Labels: biographical, photo
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Some More Musings on Natural Phenomenae (Including Hair)
Labels: biographical, photo, random, wakka wakka
