Category: My Work
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Maple Syrup Monday
This morning over breakfast I was reading an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Pennsylvania maple syrup production. My breakfast was oatmeal with maple syrup, cinnamon, and all space along with orange juice and a cup of tea. They talked about Pennsylvania’s production and compared it to Vermont’s, which made me want nothing more than…
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Rise of the Nutters
For most of my life I have been interested in British politics. I can recall talking with my mates about Tony Blair’s Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in high school and at university. During the Brexit debate, my American friends would frequently ask me just what was going on across the pond. Through that point in…
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Go Fly a Kite
This past weekend I read an article over on Reuters about the cost of electricity for Americans, especially as it pertains to unfinished electrical generation projects. To be fair, I did not read it thinking I would be getting an opportunity to talk about something here on Coffeespoons. Rather, I just received a letter from…
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Back to Boston’s Beginning
And I don’t mean the city’s. No, 125 years ago today, the Boston Americans, later to be renamed the Boston Red Sox, played their first home game. Not at Fenway Park, mind you, but their original home—the Huntington Avenue Grounds. I decided to make a graphic comparing Huntington Avenue to Fenway, but could not find…
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AC to Philly Expressway?
And I am not talking about Atlantic City. No, on Saturday, the Red Sox fired their manager Alex Cora and his entire staff. Or, rather, the staff loyal to him. I wrote about that on Monday. Little did we know that Saturday night, Alex Cora and the chief of baseball operations for the Philadelphia Phillies,…
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Revenge of the Nerds
This past weekend I thought I would be writing about something else, and perhaps I still will later this week, but for now we turn to the Boston Red Sox firing Alex Cora, their manager; Jason Varitek, beloved Sox icon and in the dugout as game planning and run prevention coach; Ramon Vazquez, bench coach;…
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To the Moon and Beyond 2: Just Passing By
Today’s post was what I alluded to on Friday, thinking it was a fit then but realising perhaps it fit better here because of what a lot of graphics show when it comes to Artemis II and mankind’s return to (the orbit of) the Moon. Most graphics typically show the elongated eight track with the…
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Opening Day
Happy Opening Day, everyone. Baseball is back. The Red Sox are back. Last year, I only posted my predictions on social media because they don’t include charts or graphs really. (But I did revisit them at year’s end.) These are mostly just tables. But, why not? Last year, shortly after Opening Day, I wrote about…
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The Axis in Poland
Earlier this week I read an Associated Press (AP) article about Poland’s economic growth since the end of Communism in the former Soviet-bloc state. Generally speaking, things are good in Eastern Europe, though a revanchist Russia to Poland’s east rekindles memories of an earlier era and the disaster after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The article included…
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Still Irish
Last October Ancestry.com updated their ethnic origins breakdowns. Longtime readers will know these are not the most useful tools for helping one in their genealogical research. But, if they garner interest in one’s family history and motivate people to explore their own pasts, more power to them. I only encourage those people to dig a…