When I was young I chased every random thought that came along. Isn’t Spanish guitar amazing? Maybe I should waste a week or two embarrassing myself. Russian novelists are interesting in a way that demands an attention to the language itself. Maybe I should learn a couple dozen nouns and adopt the sadly amorphous verb conjugation of an out-of-town man asking how one should best bus or automobile or steel bird their “travel-helpers”.
We all develop past this point, of course. We give up the thousand essentially dishonest dreams of work we are not willing to devote and settle on an honest craft of one or two ambitions.
What’s the point, bh? Ehhh, I’m not sure entirely. I’d like this blog to continue. Even if only as a tribute to our mutual friend/teacher/mensch, Jeff. But, at the moment, I’m a bit in the depths of some honest craft involving the cooking and selling of food that has taken over my tiny, little brain.
So, howzabout this? I have some posts I’d like to think about and write in the same way I’m interested in Spanish guitar and Russian. But, let’s be honest, I’d half-ass them until wisely quitting.
Perhaps I just throw them out there once a week or so with a note or two on my initial interest and you folks with your varied knowledge and persistence bring it home for the pw win?
Ehhh, who knows? If this is worthless we can quite easily forget it ever happened.
Let’s go:
1) We often talk about the home field advantage and break down all the variously related statistical aspects in sports but I wonder on a very specific thing. As athletes come from across the country to play for teams hundreds of miles from their own personal hometowns is there anything interesting we’d learn by plotting how well players do based on proximity to their childhood home? Would we be correct to assume that these correlations (either above the norm or under) dissipate the older an athlete becomes?
2) You can get a perfectly good shave just using cheap vegetable oil instead of expensive shaving cream. Use that same oil and you can create a powdered oil (just add some n-zorbit m and whisk it around) to garnish your broccolini for a high end price point. Let’s take this to a macro level then. Let’s take every time that someone could just drink water instead of a sports drink. Everywhere and everytime. Just think about the price of beauty products. The question then is what is the actual premium paid from par for selling the sizzle over the steak. Is it 2 to 1? 20 to 1?
3) Is it possible that women only appear far meaner to one another than men because they have no physical retribution available? This was the contention of a very smart girlfriend. Said that feminine monsters exploited this loophole and it really isn’t all or even some women.
What say you, pwers?
yea! bh!! Thank you for posting …
The physical retribution *is* there for women — but the hurt of bruises and scratches heals a lot faster than the kind of deep humiliation that some women can inflict on their peers.
Hey, Darleen, do you know how to put a post back into the queue? I threw this out here but you had another post ready to go.
I think maybe it’d be best to get some of my nonsense going on the weekends or when nothing was going on.
Thanks, D! Sorry about bunching up the posts though.
no worries! bh, the more posts the better.
If I wasn’t so stressed from work I’d be putting up more — burn those lights brighter. :-)
I hear ya. On the plus side, I’m not really stressed from work lately but it’s just all I do lately.
Got a bisque for Valentine’s now that’s nearly perfect. So, it’s worth it. Around Saturday about 5 pm I’ll probably be a bit stressed at service.
Hey, thanks for keeping the lights on D.
Thank you, BH.
“You can get a perfectly good shave just using cheap vegetable oil instead of expensive shaving cream.”
Actually, you get a perfectly good shave by using hot water instead of oil or shaving cream.
Thanks, Bob, but right back ‘atcha. Thanks for being around as I always enjoy reading what you have on your mind.
You’re not wrong, DickHead (I’m sorry, the whole time you’ve been commenting here I don’t know if anyone has used this familiar usage with your handle. It keeps cracking me up though.)
We all know that what you’re saying is correct. Because you shave and then you notice how you missed a spot or two. You don’t lather up again. You just get that spot under your nose or chin with some water in about 20 seconds and run out the door.
Agree with DH and bh. I haven’t used shaving cream in 25 years. Instead, I shave in the shower. Not just my face, either, but the entire head. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve cut myself shaving in 25 years. Blades last me several times longer now, too, over a month.
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve cut myself shaving in 25 years.
Ah, someone who started shaving after the age of the “safety” razor ….
When I blade shave I too always do it in the shower too. Soap up my face to wash it and shave with my eyes closed. I can’t do it at a mirror as I end up moving my hand wrong. For most days though I just buzz it with an electric.
guys .. you got it easy .. all you shave is your face …
“guys .. you got it easy .. all you shave is your face …”
My face and neck just said something real rude about you, and the toilet paper and the styptic pencil laughed.
with vegetable oil on you head you can join two guys in their garage in disrupting a $6 billion industry
Vegetable oil? Seriously, bh?
Your bathroom must be right next to your bedroom..
I simply use ordinary bar soap, or if I want to shave outside the shower, that newfangled pump soap.
Where’s ‘feets, for to give us a metmale’s shaving preferences? Full-scale depilatorization without a follicle left standing, is my guess. )
Oh. Imagine my shock. )
C’mon now! I needs 16 more RTs to break 500! )
I am temporarily in “shave everything but my upper lip” mode again, and I even have cleaning solution for my Braun Series 5 on order because my last cartridge is running low (hic).
I thought about getting one of those retro single-blade thingies from Walgreens but it would mean changing my habit to always shaving before my shower (keeping a mustache requires a mirror), and of course sooner or later I will, as I have so often, say “fuck shaving, I’ll grow a beard!”
Which as always only lasts until I actually see the beard I’m growing.
As athletes come from across the country to play for teams hundreds of miles from their own personal hometowns is there anything interesting we’d learn by plotting how well players do based on proximity to their childhood home?
I’ve noticed anecdotally, but never particularly studied, that baseball guys often seem to outperform themselves (meaning their own current numbers) when they go into a park for a series near their hometowns (and happen to have a copious number of former coaches, teammates, friends and family in the stands). Doesn’t mean their teams will fare all that much better, but the larger stat set might warrant looking into. There’s also some (anecdotally) apparent correlation with performance on their birthdays, but I’d guess that study has been done, so would just be a matter of looking it up.
We’re about a week or so out from pitchers and catchers reporting. Pre-season stat runs project my O’s at roughly 78-84/79-83 . . . I’ll just suppress a guffaw here.
While Jeff is Protein Wisdom, is Protein Wisdom solely Jeff? Seems if a few dedicated commentators/co-bloggers like Darleen and BH can man (is it patriarchal of me to say it that way) the store and Jeff is in agreement, there is no reason why PW can’t continue on.
BH wrote: Thanks for being around as I always enjoy reading what you have on your mind.
Two comments:
-As time goes on, sadly, I’m getting rounder.
-You reminded me of something Churchill once said about a fellow member of the Commons: ‘The only thing he had on his mind was a hat’.
EBL says… ⇑
Good thoughts. But hosting costs quid, and it seems traffic isn’t forcing quid to surface in sufficient quantity. And, being a thinking Conservative, you well know There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Host.
One can spend a great deal less money if one is able to do tech/admin on one’s own behalf, or has a loyal friend to do it for him.
“I’m sorry, the whole time you’ve been commenting here I don’t know if anyone has used this familiar usage with your handle. It keeps cracking me up though.”
I chose my handle with care. :-D
Ba doom boom!
bh, you may not have the name, but ceiling cat always makes me smile.
Darleen, what do you have to be stressed about? Other than all of the criminals being released back into the wild. So what if the paper pushers are only looking at the lastest arrest, rather than the cumulative arrest record….Not to mention all of the criminals petitioning to be released, due to the change in felony conviction laws.
Never mind, Darleen, I think I answered my question.
Another shower shaver here.
“Which as always only lasts until I actually see the beard I’m growing.”
McG, my take on shaving:
Which as always only lasts until Mrs. Red actually sees the beard I’m growing.
My wife likes me hairy. If she had her way I’d make Grizzly Adams look like Yul Brynner.
[bh edit]
I have no life.
Early one morning an elderly retired Marine yelled to his wife:
“Honey, come see what I created! It’s an abstract panorama depicting the six years of the Obama presidency.”
She yelled back:
“Flush the toilet and come eat your breakfast!”
I haven’t shaved in 16 years other than letting a barber trim my jaw line under my beard. The last time I shaved, my oldest Grand Daughter was two years old. After shaving my face clean, she wouldn’t come near me until I “grew my face back.”
I did find a new place to get a haircut though…Sport Clips. Ask for the ultimate MVP hair cut. Includes tantric shampoo that will make your head tingle, whilst sitting in a massage chair, Hot towel treatment on your face and temple rub. Watch sports on big screen TV while getting hair cut, then get neck and shoulder massage…damn near as good as sex! All for about 20 bucks.
Hmmm. I’ve been going to an old-fashioned barber shop for an all-over-the-same cut for at least ten years, for $10 — but we do have a Sport Clips in town…