This is something else. A complete radio broadcast of the September 20th, 1934 game between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers. This is the oldest full radio broadcast of a regular season baseball game known to exist (the 1934 All-Star Game is the only surviving full game broadcast that is older than this). …
Author Archives: Steve Wettlaufer
Free Interrogation
The saying goes that there’s no such thing as something for nothing, but try telling that to the lucky fellows in Mississippi who recently found a free car. Not only did an anonymous donor offer up a vehicle complete with keys for the taking and not ask a thing in return, but he was also …
Healthy? Part 1
Our old pal Gill is going through some stuff at the moment, and it seems she feels like talking about it. This looks to be the first in an ongoing series. We certainly wish her the best. Here’s hoping they figure out what’s wrong and can patch you up good as new. My mom often …
We’re Old Enough To Vote. Woe
I could hardly believe it when it hit me, but today this place turns 18 years old. Seriously, what the hell? Where did all that time go? I’ll spare you all the stuff about how much the world has changed since we started. We’ve done that before and I’m sure we’ll do it again. I’ll …
Very Hard Jeopardy! Questions
Here’s some fun. 20 of the Hardest ‘Jeopardy!’ Questions of All Time They call them some of the hardest questions of all time because none of the three contestants answered them correctly. Hard is a very subjective description, obviously. Anyway, have a look at the clues on that list and see how many of them …
All Of The Security, Less Of The Risk
Update: So much for that. iOS 15 has been out for a little while now, but I don’t have it on either of my devices. I almost never upgrade to the newest major releases right away. There are a couple of reasons for this. The main one is accessibility. There is inevitably something or other …
You’ll Be Fine
Oh hey look, an extremely stupid letter to the editor. Terrible treatment Sadly we have morphed into a form of caste system in this country. The privileged that are “vaxxed” and the rabble that are not. In all my years living in this nation, I have never witnessed such venom coming from members of the …
Facebook Finally Gets Something Right
Man Who Posted ‘We Can All Get Through This Together’ Kicked Off Social Media For Spreading Covid-19 Hoax COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—After violating the company’s terms of service with his factually inaccurate message, local man Mitch Pennington, who posted the words “We can all get through this together!” on Facebook, was reportedly kicked off the social …
Define Heartbreaking
‘Heartbreaking’: Unvaccinated food services director to be suspended from 22-year job at Cambridge LTC There is exactly one heartbreaking thing going on here, and it’s not that this woman might lose her job. It’s that there are people this selfish and thickheaded working with the sick and vulnerable. Yes, I am being harsh. No, I …
I Hope The Next BAD Thing About You Is Your Case Of Republican Lung
‘Vaxxed or not vaxxed you are all welcome’: Hundreds of Ontario businesses defy vaccine passport rules I just about lost my fucking mind reading this. Can we please bugger off with this “education-first approach” shit? These assholes don’t need education. They know exactly what they’re doing. And at this point, who in the actual hell …
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