NYTimes.com: Standing by His Woman
“He can’t compute that he’s not the new kid on the block,” said a former Clinton adviser. “It’s about his mortality — and immortality. He needs her to win because if she doesn’t become president, he goes down as a minor president. If she wins, it’s the Adamses and the Roosevelts and the Clintons.”
Is it more about legacy for Bill? Interesting.
From ESPN.com: Yankees will donate once-buried Red Sox jersey to Boston-area charity
A construction worker’s bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot.
After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out.
It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said.
I don’t think they would have bothered if it were something else, like the body of Jimmy Hoffa. But the Red Sox jersey has got to go!
From CNN.com: Travel writer tells newspaper he plagiarized, dealt drugs
Thomas Kohnstamm, who has written a book on his misadventures, also said he didn’t travel to Colombia to write the guidebook on the country because “they didn’t pay me enough,” The Daily Telegraph reported.
“I wrote the book in San Francisco [California],” he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph. “I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate.”
I almost bought this book! I’ve been interested in traveling to Colombia for a while and the Lonely Planet guide book served us pretty well on the New Zealand trip that I was on.
It also says in the story that Lonely Planet didn’t pay enough so he dealt drugs on the side to get by.
As I was driving to work, I noticed on the video screen billboard that the Cincinnati Reds are now offering “all you can eat” seats for Reds games.
From the Cincinnati Reds website
The AYCE seats include unlimited ballpark fare – hot dogs, popcorn, peanuts and Pepsi products – all for one low price!
A seat in the AYCE section is $30.00. With a Pepsi and a hot dog each at $4.00, and a mezzanine seat at $22.00, you’ll save money if you want to eat more than one hot dog and a Pepsi.
But there are a couple of downsides:
1. Hot Dogs at Great American Ballpark are pretty terrible- totally flavorless. They’re not even worth a dollar on the “dollar dog” days.
2. Sitting with and watching people that have no respect for their bodies stuffing themselves with ballpark food.
Alcohol is not included.
About the only thing that I found amusing on the internet on April Fool’s day was Think Geek’s April Fool fake products.
My favorite was the Super Pii Pii Brothers for the Wii. Knowing the Japanese, I wouldn’t be too surprised if someone actually tried to make this game.
The video is hilarious!
The Spring “light switch” was turned on over the weekend. It’s time to get back outside!
From the NYTimes.com: And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw
An interesting story about the Monty Hall Problem a counter intuitive mathematical problem.
In the Monty Hall Problem you are a contestant on a game show and are presented with three doors. Behind two of the doors there are goats and behind a third a new car. You are asked to select a door. After you choose a door, Monty Hall opens from the remaining two doors a door with a goat. Now you have the option to keep your door or switch to the other door that Monty Hall did not open. What do you do? Do you stay with the door you initially chose or the third door?
The answer is that you should always switch doors. Play the game below to understand why.
From NYTimes.com: Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers
First, developing countries now produce nearly half of all American imports. Second, inflation in these countries is coming at the same time that many of their currencies are rising against the dollar.
That puts American consumers in a double bind, paying at least some of producers’ higher costs for making their goods, and higher prices on top of that because the dollar buys less in those countries.
It’s not clear what we can do about this inflation. The Fed is pretty powerless to stop it since it’s based on global demand and rising wages around the world. Normally, a week dollar would make U.S. goods more attractive, but what goods can we export besides commodities or services? Most of the really innovative and new U.S. technology products are manufactured overseas now.
