Assistant Village Idiot

Just to show how slight the difference is, not only in impressions, but in the reality behind the impressions. The Red Sox collapsed by go...

This article by Philip Seaton had interesting tendrils stretching out in several directions.  The occasional use of academic-speak seems en...

As you will note, I am doing some housecleaning.  Under the old template, extended conversation could be put on the sidebar.  I can't se...

Route 28, a secondary highway in MA and NH, was important in family history, especially above Manchester. I was curious about what the road...

The full series of posts and discussion on how much we do - and do not - delude ourselves.

The full discussion about giving directions and navigating, which is called Wayfinding in research.

This season was reminiscent of the 1970's Red Sox. I would say about 50% the 1974 season , 25% the 1972 seaso n, and 25% the devastatin...

I look for one thing, I find something else. I was interested in the various views of WWII in Japanese culture today, because I am interest...

The downside of my sidebar posting what's newest on my blogroll is that the inattentive blogger can have three strong posts and a throwa...

Sam noted, and I concurred, that he had long mixed up Madeline Kahn and Bernadette Peters. In looking up images to post, I found this forum...

I went back and forth between this and When You Wish Upon A Star.

New Harmony , Indiana, was founded by the Harmony Society, a German utopian, socialist, anarchist, pietist,,,well, you get the idea - group ...

Philip M. Parker has written 200,000 books . Over 100,000 are on Amazon. He has done this by means of an algorithm which researches databas...

I was looking for something on the book series, the first of the Stratemeyer Syndicate that also published The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boy...

Extra-base hits are a little-used, but I think important measure of excellence for hitters.  Getting over 80 is moderately unusual - it ...

David at Photon Courier has excellent commentary on Doerner's The Logic of Failure , experiments on complex decision-making and how it g...

Notice on the sidebar that "I don't know, but..." actually seems to understand this.  Like the bridge hand in the newspaper, I...

I went looking for an older post of mine, and when it came up, the entire month's posts expanded out in the archive section.  Much more ...

I commented during interleague play this summer that the Red Sox were whining about not having the DH.  Where does that come from?  That...

No irony this time.  They all had great voices, but hers - outasight.