Paul Graham has a good article about owning too much stuff. It's good for me to read something like this every so often to inspire me to clean out a lot of things I really don't need.

OK, I'm an idiot. Or not observant. Or something.

I'm a pretty avid baseball fan. I played many years of little league and, except for taking time off in the late 80s/early 90s to ride my bike instead, have followed the Red Sox pretty closely. Thiry-six years on this earth, a baseball fan for most of them.

But it wasn't until this past Friday that I finally realized something: I was finishing the final DVD of Ken Burns' Baseball when someone pointed out the obvious: home plate is actually shaped like a home! I'm so used to seeing it as shown in the photo here that I never noticed that by rotating it 180 degrees, it's the shape of a house.

I told a sports fan at work, and he hadn't noticed either (and he was a catcher when he played baseball). So I'm probably not alone, but still somewhat shocked.

While talking about Sesame Street...

Amelia: Why does Oscar always tell people "Get lost"?
Me: Because he's a grouch.
Amelia: Well, he should say "Get lost, please."