Chicago, Illinois by Dizzy Atmosphere The Cubby Bear, across the street from Wrigley Field, 1060 West Addison St. Chicago USA Welcome to the friendly confines, Yashica T4, Ilford FP4 film Photograph taken 1994
Russian Hill, San Francisco by Dizzy Atmosphere Chrysler Convertible Taylor Street, Russian Hill district, San Francisco 1990
AT&T Park site, San Franciso by Dizzy Atmosphere San Francisco Giants ballpark AT&T Park under construction, (then called PacBell Park.) 3rd and King street, San Francisco 1999
1989 World Series Baseball, Game 3, Candlestick Park, San Francisco by Dizzy Atmosphere Photograph taken October 17, 1989 just 2 or 3 minutes after a 7.1 earthquake. Baseball fans in attendance at this point were still standing and looking around and surveying the damage. World Series Game 3 between the Giants and Athletics was not […]
Island Auto Movie, Alameda, California by Dizzy Atmosphere Rolliecord V, Kodak Plus-X film photograph taken 1983
Why They Crowned Mary Margaret Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher
Hunter Pence’s “Triple Double” “As you might imagine, there is a lot of physics contained in this play, and I want to explore some of it in this article.”
Yet another r vs. r-squared explanation Phil Birnbaum, Sabermetric Research
RSA Shorts – The Power of Quiet theRSAorg
How a Videogame God Inspired a Twitter Doppelgänger — and Resurrected His Career “Imagine carrying a radioactive baby in a pitch black environment, your baby would act as a torch. Rocking the baby intensifies the glow etc.”
Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains “If you eat only raw food, there are not enough hours in the day to get enough calories to build such a large brain,” says Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil who is co-author of the report. “We can […]
The Story behind the Cover of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’
The Planning Fallacy “The problem is almost always oversimplification. The world is a complicated place full of random chaos and your brain works by grouping clusters of that chaos into an easier to understand model. In my model of the morning, there were only a few things going on. “
Mop-up Duty | Jonah Keri “Phil Coke’s path to the World Series with the Tigers was full of late nights, fast food, and doing whatever it took to pay the bills.”
Economists design their dream candidate. But could he ever get elected?
Bill Hicks + George Carlin: The Big Electron melodysheep
Barack Obama: Corporatist Collectivist (Part I of IV) “A more accurate description of Obama, however – and of the Democratic party under his leadership – is that it is collectivist, just as socialists are; but that this collectivism takes the form of corporatism.”
You Learn From People Who Mostly Agree With You Ben Casnocha, Ben Casnocha
When our interpretations differ… “In some cases, folks are so committed to their particular views on these issues they seem incapable of making a distinction between the Bible itself and their interpretation of it, and so any critique of that interpretation is seen as a critique of Scripture itself!”
The American Scholar: Mortify Our Wolves – Christian Wiman “The point is that he felt human destitution to its absolute degree; the point is that God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering…But if you find that you cannot believe in God, then do not worry yourself with it. No one can say what […]