I always believed:

We did it! World Fucking Champions!

I keep thinking that I am going to wake up and none of this will have happened, but Ann assures me that I'm not dreaming.

You all probably have seen Get Your War On. But have you seen the Red Sox version? This one is particularly funny.

This is insane.

This is great:

Unbe-fucking-lievable!

I need math help.

I'm trying to teach one of my high school age students to multiply fractions. He's got the procedure down fine...multiply the numerators, multiply the denominators, reduce to lowest terms. Here's where he is confused and where I am stymied. I just can't explain this:

He says: "Why do these fractions keep getting smaller when I multiply them? Multiplication is supposed to make things bigger. I must be wrong" (furiously erases correct answer, rubbing so hard the paper rips).

Anyone? Anyone? Jacob Morrill?

Whoohoo! (Sorry, I had to take down the mp3).

2 more!

Some random reading in honor of the rainout of game 3.

Salon asks: would you rather see the Red Sox win the world series or John Kerry win the election? (Inside my head right now: "How bad, really, could 4 more years of Bush be?")

It's official: being a Red Sox fan is bad for your mental and physical health. Be sure to click on the graphic!

Also, the ugly truth about the curse.

I went for a short hike yesterday up Gile Mountain (more of a hill really) in Norwich, VT, mostly to check out foliage but also to test out a hydration pack I picked up at the LL Bean outlet. There is a 75 foot fire tower at the top - check out some pictures of the absolute peak foliage.

Afterwards I went to Dan & Whit's General Store and purchased the following items: a beer, the New York Times, a replacement valve for a toilet, a mug and some ibuprofen. The motto of Dan and Whit's is "If we don't have it, you don't need it." It's definitely true.

Ann and I got a new camera (5.0 Megapixels!) for taking pictures of baby. I thought there would be no better way to celebrate the fact that fall is here than this:

Classic Bill Simmons: "Then again, we're not even sure Manny realizes that there's a difference between the regular season and the playoffs, or that they're keeping score during games."

Go Sox!

I have finally made it to the Mug Club on BeerAdvocate.com. It was a lot of hard work drinking and reviewing beer. You can check out my profile here. Only 7000 more beer reviews (give or take) until I become a Grand Pooh-Bah.

Does it make me lame or nerdy or an alcoholic that I'm so proud of this?

So I'm trying to make a science Mix on iTunes, using a pretty liberal definition of science (either lyrical content or title or ideally both). Anyone have any tips for songs that I may have missed? Of course Ween is heavily represented, no surprise.

• Race For The Prize (Remix) The Flaming Lips
• Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) Ween
• The HIV Song Ween
• Golgi Apparatus Phish
• Zoloft Ween
• Astronomy Domine Pink Floyd
• Orbits Medeski, Martin And Wood
• Clone Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon
• Waves Phish

Happy birthday to Ann!