A Building Roam

Earlier today I posted about tonight's extremely rare lunar eclipse featuring a large (illusively large) moon because of its proximity ...

I had the Padres-Marlins game on my television, muted, this afternoon/evening while I did the dishes, ate cake, listened to music. At one po...

Something rare and extremely cool is happening tonight/early tomorrow morning: a partial lunar eclipse. For about three hours, beginning aro...

Synchronicity. I've mentioned the term here a few times now, most recently in light of the recent coincidence that occurred to me a few...

Today is the Summer solstice, the first day of summer, the longest day of the year. The Sun is at its highest point and from now until Decem...

I attended the Padres-Orioles game last night at Petco Park with my brothers Billy and John and John's wife Kristina (a shrewd baseball ...

  I've been reading Josh Wilker's Cardboard Gods blog and its awesome essays for about three years now and when I heard he was wri...

It's been an exciting, event-filled, eventful last couple days. It began on Friday morning when it was brought to my attention that Rob ...

I read The Tao of Physics on a recommendation from a great professor I had in my final semester of college in the spring of 2007. It rema...

I'm a bit late with this little follow-up to the Jim Joyce-Armando Galarraga situation but I'd like to briefly bring attention to a ...

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery"--James Joyce In the aftermath of the Jim Joyce botched-perfect-game incident there'...