26 days into my professional career, something that had never happened before, happened. And it was not an unprecedented event that largely went unnoticed – like the time, early in my career, when I inadvertently wore different dress shoes on my left and right feet. While that remains memorable to at least one person, the [...]
Oxyphenbutazone is a non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug used mostly in eye-drops that was pulled from markets worldwide in the mid-1980’s for its link to bone marrow depression. More interestingly, but perhaps just as trivial, Oxyphenbutazone represents the highest possible scoring play in Scrabble. Play it across three triple word score squares and eight already-played, perfectly positioned [...]
“Congratulations. I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.” -Yogi Berra in a telegram to Johnny Bench after Bench broke Berra's record for most home runs as a catcher. We recently explained why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a terrible, no good, very bad index. In spite of our best [...]
