Charity knitting project: Knitted nests
I recently learned about an exceptionally cute need for knitted charity projects. A wildlife rescue organization on Bainbridge Island has put out a call to knitters and crocheters to give them a hand.
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The World’s Oddest Museums
Normally, when one visits a museum, one expects to see things like great works of art or a collection of things from the past all gathered in one place. There are plenty of museums out there that cater to this more standard of needs. But what about those of us that are looking to get a break from gazing at Picassos or reconstructed sets of dinosaur bones? For the museum tourist with stranger tastes, there plenty of places out there that are dedicated to both enlightening and being different. Today, I’ve gathered up seven examples of some of the oddest museums in the world, though there are plenty more out there if you look for them.
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Eat more fish!
I love fish, but I'll be honest with you, I'm not very confident about cooking it. Everyone always says "It's so easy to cook fish!" But let me tell you, there are a lot of fish-cooking disasters in my past.
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Scuba diving with sharks
Sharks get a bad rap. As my dive buddy reminds me, more people will die each year from falling coconuts than from sharks. It’s taken some convincing but, I think he’s right.
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M's 3, AAAAstros 0
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It became clear what Bazooka Joe was talking about, that Montero didn't "get" Saunders' game last time around. The typical inning has around 15 pitches, and in those 15 pitches his Monday mix was:
| Pitch | # thrown per IP |
| Fastball | 11 |
| Gloveside slider | 2 |
| Armside changeup | 2 |
Saunders pitches even more like Jarrod Washburn than we gave him credit for. He wants to "pitch to contact," to challenge (right hand) batters to do something with a located fastball. In theory, that's fine, provided you're not missing out and over the plate, allowing two home runs to mess up an otherwise pleasant evening.
Bazooka Joe wants to mix only enough offspeed to keep the (right hand) batters from cheating on his fastball. I didn't get this before tonight, and I kinda doubt Jesus Montero did, either. Montero favors offspeed pitches, but tonight it was almost like "Okay, pal, you like fastballs so much, I'll just put down the 1 every time."
Red Rock Canyon lures you in
In an ancient age the western edge of North America perched on the rim of a tectonic plate far inland from the coast we know today. That site, now the Red Rock Conservation Area outside of Las Vegas, holds remnants of that early coastline in the rusty iron oxide that flows ribbon-like across the hillsides. The striated patterns are visible from miles away.
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Visiting the Valley of the Priests
Hawaii’s north shore is legendary for frighteningly tall waves and daredevil surfers. The crowds that come to watch join competitors filling the town with color and noise. During the off-season, it’s another place entirely. There’s a quiet grace in this verdant corner of the world. The docks hold fishing boats of mostly the sporting kind and you can even dive with Galapagos Sharks not far from the channel mouth – in a cage that is. Local kids dodge paddle boarders as they jump off the small town bridge to cool off in the waters below.
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Why do we shiver?
It happens when we’re cold or frightened. It happens when we experience fever, pleasure or arousal. Shivers are a natural reflex with the primary purpose of keeping our bodies warm enough for survival.
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Whale sushi chefs sentenced to jail time
In 2010, a documentary crew led by the associate producer of "The Cove" dined at a Santa Monica sushi restaurant called the Hump. They pretended to be a group of raucous high rollers, ordering increasingly more expensive and bizarre sushi items, racking up a bill that came to over $600.
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Carlos Triunfel, top o' th innin'
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Didn't watch that much TV this September. Don't even remember which game it was when we flicked it on and there it was, four years on. Carlos Triunfel at shortstop in Safeco Field.
Dr. D is a mammal like most of those reading this, and sadly enough, classical conditioning overmatches his higher brain functions like Felix Hernandez vs. Elvis Andrus. He therefore expected, on a visceral level, to see a train wreck defensively. Intellectually he had no reason to have any expectations in either direction. Instinctively, though? He pinched his eyebrows painfully and hoped he wouldn't see something embarrassing.
Years of scouting reports had closed the books on this one. Carlos Triunfel had been a minor league SS only in the sense that Garry Sheffield once was a minor league SS. Dr. D reminds himself again and again and again to trust only his own eyes (and, admittedly, Gordon Gross' eyes), but his self-reprimands only go so far. You come back to your instinctive reactions. The world can't be crazy.
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A ground ball went to second base. The second baseman - who even remembers or cares whether it was Ackley - flipped over to Carlos Triunfel for the DP relay.
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