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Mar. 8th, 2006 11:59 pm
High today, here: 2. Dewpoint then: -4. High dewpoint: -4.
High today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -3. High dewpoint: -3.
Low today on the balcony: -3.8. High: 2. Currently: 1.9.
Louisa St. weather station (which has been uninterruptedly operational for the last couple of days, which leads me to wonder whether, actually, a bird pooped on the sensor, rather than the batteries being low) going on hiatus until Sunday, due to SoM excursion.
Hum, South Korea beats Japan, and Canada beats the US using five pitchers I've never heard of. (To the Americans' two pitchers I've never heard of.) This three-game round robin followed by single-game elimination business, it's so un-baseball ... but it gets me to thinking, why is baseball the way it is, the long haul, five-man rotations, all that. Just, I guess, because it can be, unlike more physically demanding sports. (Though I sometimes wonder what hockey might be like if teams played almost every day. They're almost at the point now, in hockey, especially in Olympic years, where it would be worthwhile to sit guys out now and then.)
(At this point, two paragraphs deleted about how Canadians don't really care about hockey as much as they think they do and what it's got to do with playing baseball every day and why the Americans won't win the WBC. Because my brain cells are all hugging their knees and rocking back and forth. We'll try again sometime, maybe.)
Couple more chapters of Veyne; one more chapter to go. Another recurring theme in this book, which is, actually, a lot like a round: the Greeks had a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that a story--or, for that matter, a proposition--could be, simply, false. (Parmenides: "It is necessary to speak and to think what is; for being is, but nothing is not." Which is, actually, a kind of line of argument I've known the odd Christian (going through the stage of life that might otherwise find expression in Campus Socialism) to employ: what, you say God doesn't exist? But who is it you say doesn't exist? That's right, God!)
High today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -3. High dewpoint: -3.
Low today on the balcony: -3.8. High: 2. Currently: 1.9.
Louisa St. weather station (which has been uninterruptedly operational for the last couple of days, which leads me to wonder whether, actually, a bird pooped on the sensor, rather than the batteries being low) going on hiatus until Sunday, due to SoM excursion.
Hum, South Korea beats Japan, and Canada beats the US using five pitchers I've never heard of. (To the Americans' two pitchers I've never heard of.) This three-game round robin followed by single-game elimination business, it's so un-baseball ... but it gets me to thinking, why is baseball the way it is, the long haul, five-man rotations, all that. Just, I guess, because it can be, unlike more physically demanding sports. (Though I sometimes wonder what hockey might be like if teams played almost every day. They're almost at the point now, in hockey, especially in Olympic years, where it would be worthwhile to sit guys out now and then.)
(At this point, two paragraphs deleted about how Canadians don't really care about hockey as much as they think they do and what it's got to do with playing baseball every day and why the Americans won't win the WBC. Because my brain cells are all hugging their knees and rocking back and forth. We'll try again sometime, maybe.)
Couple more chapters of Veyne; one more chapter to go. Another recurring theme in this book, which is, actually, a lot like a round: the Greeks had a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that a story--or, for that matter, a proposition--could be, simply, false. (Parmenides: "It is necessary to speak and to think what is; for being is, but nothing is not." Which is, actually, a kind of line of argument I've known the odd Christian (going through the stage of life that might otherwise find expression in Campus Socialism) to employ: what, you say God doesn't exist? But who is it you say doesn't exist? That's right, God!)
