Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Marc Umile of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, was certified as the North American record-holder for memorizing decimal place digits of the mathematical constant pi. He memorized 12,887 digits. It took him 3 hours and 40 minutes to recite them.
Why, Marc, why? Because the field of pi memorizers is dominated by Europeans […]
OK. So I’m - what? - maybe eight, ten years old, and I’m the King Of Tag in the streets and alleys of my Philadelphia neighborhood. Way faster and more agile than Tommy, Nicky, Nancy, Georgie, Carol, and Raymond. Yo, Rocky, bring it on!
Then this wiry little red-headed girl moves onto the block and my […]
This is good for a chuckle and is yet another reminder that PowerPoint is no substitute for passion: Abe Lincoln’s Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation
James Shewmaker responded to my previous post about signs that tell you what you can’t do by sending along this priceless gem.
Damn! My TV tray is a half-inch over the limit. I also love the “shirts and shoes must be worn” bit, which unintendedly suggests that you should wear only old, well used shirts and […]
