The Sox (finally) win the AL East, I won't say anything to my Mets-following family and friends, and Jon in Philly watches a great comeback. Let the playoffs begin...

What a difference between Boston and Florida baseball: While Fenway sells out the park every night (375+ consecutive games), take a look at this photo from yesterday's Marlins-Nationals game. There were about 400 fans total, and only half of that stayed until the Marlins won the game in the 12th.

"In the spring we'd make meat helmets." -- Dr. Evil

I decided to start doing Sinko again: a weekly podcast that's basically a 5-song "mix tape" based on a theme or artist. Check it out if you're interested, and you can subscribe here.

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."

While digging around old files for this site, I came across two somewhat creepy photos of me. First is one I created years ago for reasons that escape me now, and it sorta looks like Jeremy:



The second was a creation that Jeff did, combining me and Jakob Nielsen:



(If you know me and know who Jakob is, you know why this is funny beyond just the goofy morphed photo.)

Speaking of Jakob, I somehow missed this page which is pretty funny: Jakob Nielsen’s Usability Fighting Styles.

Quite a while back the Brunching Shuttlecocks (one of my favorite humor sites when it was alive) had an article called Twelve Actual AP Headlines Which, When Followed By 'Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah,' Can Be Sung To The Tune of 'Camptown Races' (sample: "Man in Wheelchair Killed by Train").

I guess Lore Sjöberg (the creator of the Brunching Shuttlecocks) has too much free time because he built this Doo-Dah News Network flash app: it scrolls headlines that you can sing to the tune of "Camptown Races" if you add "Doo-Dah" to the end. News has never been so much fun or musical!

Not to bore anybody with all 80+ photos from our vacation in the Bahamas (out of the 240+ I actually took), I put a few select shots on Flickr.