¶This photograph is one of two that make my mind’s eye view of Willie Mays. It’s from the September, 1954 issue of Baseball Digest. Luckily, it’s in the public domain. The other is this photo of The Catch, which currently isn’t.
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¶Update on the new Spitfire - title is on its way, but the car still sits in Wisconsin. We’re waiting for the transport company to schedule a pickup. It’s looking like we won’t see it until mid July.
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¶Overall, the NHL playoffs have been great this year. The finals have been a bit lackluster, with Florida dominating, but Edmonton won Game 4 and is out to an early lead in Game 5. Florida has zero pressure to win tonight – they’re at home with a 3 games to 1 lead. Win tonight, and they get the Cup in front on their own fans. If they lose tonight, a bit of pressure will creep in.
¶I’m pulling for Florida but I’d also like to see a Finals that reflects the fantastic nature of the playoffs up to this point. It’s not likely, but I’d love to see Edmonton stretch this to six or seven games.
¶I don’t want hockey to end yet.
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¶I’d like to be known as somebody who was just a decent human being.
¶Stephen King is a treasure that, I think, we don’t fully appreciate. I love his writing, but I get that not everyone does. Beyond the books, though, he genuinely seems like a wonderful person. This brief article (it’s not an interview, or not presented as one anyways) gives real insight into that, I think.
¶He’ll of course be remembered as “the scary guy,” but I think he’s got the “decent human being” thing down, too.
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¶It’s going to be hot today! All of this week, actually. Mid 70s for are walk this morning at 6AM.
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¶IBM has given us confidence that a voice ordering solution for drive-thru will be part of our restaurant’s future.
¶To be clear, McDonald’s isn’t walking away from “voice ordering” technology altogether. It looks like they’re walking away from IBM with enough confidence to make a final decision on fully implementing it by the end of the year. Does someone have a better solution than the IBM system? Is McDonald’s going to roll its own?
¶Who knows, but it seems like AI will be handling fast food ordering in the not too distant future. This could actually be a great “real people” test for AI – we all know what it’s like to have a drive-through order get messed up, for whatever reason. It’s frustrating, and having the restaurant fix the mistake is usually not worth the time and effort of driving back. Will AI improve order accuracy? If it does, “real people” will notice and AI will earn a victory in the public eye. Real people will also notice if it doesn’t, or if it makes things worse. Either of those situations would be a major loss for AI.
¶Do you want fries with that?
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¶So there’s a statute of Oliver Hazard Perry in a park across the way from Cleveland Browns Stadium. It reminded me, of course, of the statue of Perry at home, so I did a little research. Turns out, the Perrysburg Perry statue is a bronze casting of an original Cleveland Perry statue. This one, near the stadium in Cleveland, is itself a bronze casting of the original.
¶Ours is a hand-me-down!
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¶The Stones certainly did not disappoint. They played a full 2+ hour set, marching through a set list that’s nearly impossible to complain about (no Can’t you hear me knockin’) and at a pace that would have exhausted bands thirty years younger. A great show all around. I’ll reflect on it in coming days.
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¶We’re ready for The Rolling Stones!
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¶We timed our visit to the merch truck perfectly. We arrived at about 11:45 and it opened at noon. Met a nice couple from Minneapolis while we waited, and spent some time figuring out which shirts to buy. Renee consulted her sister by FaceTime (my opinion is largely irrelevant on such matters, and I’m ok with that).
¶Now we don’t have to scramble to buy shirts tonight!
¶Off to lunch.
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¶We had breakfast and did some planning at Starbucks. We ended up walking to the Guardians team store. Beautiful morning for a walk. The team store was a little underwhelming. I didn’t feel like paying hundreds of dollars for a jersey, and couldn’t find a decent hoodie. I’ll wait for Stones merch. Renee got a hat.
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¶Jake would love this view…we’ve got front row seats for the approach to Burke Lakefront Airport. I’m betting we’ll see some private jets arriving tomorrow. I saw a few smaller planes tonight, including this Cessna, as the sun set over the stadium and airport. I’ve got a great view, but I’m betting the pilot’s is better!
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¶I think we could watch the concert from our hotel room. What a view.
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¶Renee and I are in Cleveland for the weekend. We’re going to The Rolling Stones concert tomorrow night, and figured we’d make a whole weekend of it. We had a great dinner at a local steakhouse tonight, enjoying a couple things off the special Stones-themed menu (Renee got the Start Me Up drink and I had the Groupie Grouper entree; both were great).
¶I’m sure it’s all officially licensed.
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¶I didn’t realize it until I posted the photo about the blind clips, but Denny also gave us this compost bin yesterday, which he pulled from his neighbors garbage. He talked to her about it…she was discarding two of them for some reason. She never used them! So he took one and gave one to us. Another great find.
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¶I’m not ashamed to admit I did a little garbage picking on our walk this morning. I noticed the neighbor was trashing this set of vertical blinds and I couldn’t resist taking a closer look. Not that I want vertical blinds. We already have multiple sets at the condo. The problem is this tiny little clip that holds each blind to the carriage that slides along the track. The clips tend to break, particularly after decades of sun exposure. This set appeared to have the same clip, so I tried to pull a few to take to Florida. No luck…they absolutely wouldn’t come out of the carriage. No worries, though, I just cut the lines and pulled several carriages out. I don’t know if I’ll be able to somehow use the clip independent of these carriages, or if I’ll need to replace entire carriages to fix broken clips, but at least I can try. We’ll see.
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¶Our findings reveal a significant reduction in PD occurrence following anti-tetanus vaccination, with a time-dependent association between the elapsed time since vaccination and both the rate and progression of PD. These results are supported by evidence that antimicrobial treatments significantly alter disease severity, suggesting the actual involvement of Clostridium Tetani in PD pathology.
¶This is only a preprint, but it’s really interesting and definitely something to keep an eye on.
¶After reading it, I wondered if men get tetanus more than women, considering our penchant for playing and working in the dirt and handling rusty metal. Turns out we do (although relative prevalances may flip at age 60). Then I wondered if Parkinson’s is more prevalent in men than in women. It is.
¶Interesting indeed.
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¶I had a nice reminder today that we often fail to appreciate the things in our lives that have become common or routine. I had a video conference with an inventor early this morning. As we got underway, he asked “Is that the actual view from your office?”. He said he assumed it was real because he saw cars driving over the bridge. I told him it was real and gave him a bit of a tour (he’s not from around here), pointing to the Maumee River and the Martin Luther King bridge. I even told him about the ships that come and go and how fun it is to watch the bridge raise and lower as they head into Toledo.
¶It’s a great view and I love it, but his question made me realize that I might be taking it for granted lately, maybe even forgetting about it. Not good. I need to appreciate it more.
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¶The OLED screen on my new iPad can show black as so black that I can’t see the links in some apps…they need to rethink their color schemes. This screen is impressive!
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¶RIP Jerry “logo” West.
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¶We had s’mores in the backyard tonight, a perk of having the boys home for the summer.
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¶Again, everyone already understands the annual hot dog eating competition is just an advertisement for Nathan’s....
¶Never, ever forget that Major League Eating was founded on the heels of a successful PR campaign to increase the exposure of the Nathan’s contest. And the Shea brothers, the founders of Major League Eating, “started their own (PR) firm…and…took the Nathan’s account with them.” Oh, and George Shea’s wife “is a writer for WWE and a former soap opera producer.”
¶These folks are masters of promotion and publicity.
¶Chestnut will be back, likely on the eve of the contest. You can almost feel it.
¶What’s the angle, though? Just more attention for Nathan’s, in the few weeks before the contest on the Fourth of July?
¶Maybe the Shea brothers are working to promote Impossible Foods, which makes the vegan dog they currently, apparently, view as a conflict of interest. Maybe they resolve the “conflict” in a couple weeks with some manufactured resolution that vegan dogs don’t compete with actual hot dogs, that the two can, in fact, co-exist. I can see the commercials now.
¶Maybe? Maybe.
¶Whatever the angle, it’s PR gold for everyone involved – Nathan’s, the contest, Impossible Foods, and, lest we forget, Joey Chestnut.
¶And I’m here for all of it.
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