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Baseball is Digital, Football is Analog

In general terms, digital means that information is contained in discrete elements, with nothing in between. For example, a digital clock with an Hour:Minute display shows you the time as discrete elements of minutes. By glancing at the clock once, you cannot tell how close you are to the next minute. There is no in-between. […]

The Barry Bonds Homerun Record

When I was in Fifth Grade, our teacher had a small bulletin board that he changed each Monday. On it he posted a Word of the Week along with a picture to illustrate it, a Quotation of the Week, and a general knowledge Question of the Week. The only question from that Fifth Grade bulletin […]

Our Visit to Cooperstown

After checking into a nearby motel, we arrived in Cooperstown in early afternoon. We parked the car on the outskirts of town at one of the trolley lots. A few minutes later the Deerslayer trolley pulled up and took us downtown. Cooperstown is a small mountain village with one traffic light, but it has […]