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Authentic St. Patrick’s Date Fare

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St. Pat’s Gifts for Your Sweetie

Just because it’s St. Patrick’s Day next Saturday doesn’t mean you get to go around pinching people. I don’t know how that tradition got started but it’s one of the dumbest ones I can think of—like an extremely watered down version of, say, decapitating someone because they’re not the same religion as you are. But celebrating your Irish heritage, drinking good beer, and wearing green are all things that many of us can definitely get behind.

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The Craziest Thing

The now-closed Hooters of Burnsville, MN, not only used to host a charity bikini car wash, they used to offer one every Monday during the summertime.

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Create a Sensory Experience for Your Date

If you want to truly impress your date but you just don’t have the means or funds to provide a whole sensory experience upon which to dine, have no fear: you can provide it all by yourself without leaving home! If you are comfortable enough with one another to fully trust each other, there is no reason why you can’t enjoy a dining in the dark experience (or other sensory explorations) together.

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Sick of Valentine’s Day Already?

The first time I ever heard of an I Hate Valentine’s Day Party was on the movie Valentine’s Day, ironically enough. Jessica Biel’s character—whose name I cannot remember; nor can I recall any other insipid characters’ names from the banal film—hated Valentine’s Day so much that she threw herself into a fit, passing out, chugging down chocolate, and generally being a huge basket case, despite the fact that she had a very successful career and, assumingly, good life.

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Valentine Treats

One of the most romantic activities you can do on Valentine’s Day is to cook together or prepare something for someone you are interested in. Spending the time to prepare something indicates a greater level of commitment and interest, for one thing—but it’s also a good get-to-know-you activity where you can talk together as you prepare something, too. Here are some fun Valentine’s treats to make for, or on, your Valentine’s date.

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Sims 3 Genetics

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The Progression of Science and Scientists - Sir Isaac and Taijuan

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Another fave milestone in "ancient" science being...

Newton's Prism. Before Newton, scientists believed that if you passed a beam of light through (say) orange-colored glass, then you "stained" a "pure" white light.

Newton secured a dark room and two prisms. He split the light with the first prism, and noted that after it went back through the second prism, it was white again. He concluded that white was the "mongrel," the mixed soup, as it were.

Then he hit the second prism with each color individually, and noted that from red to blue, each ray was bent more by the second prism. Light consisted of "rayes differently frangible."

EM spectrum theory began at this point, and scientists of ordinary talent could work within Newton's paradigm to begin cataloging the properties of light.

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I got yer 4 games right here, Gumby (part two)

=== July 1-4, 2011 ===

In Bard's next four games, the Mariners gave up 0, 1, 1, and 1 runs. Dr. D danced the Futterwack vigorously.

Well, the M's have great pitchers, though -- three different Cy Young candidates in their rotation. But! Were these lockdowns fired by Felix and Bedard? No, this glorious run included:

A complete-game shutout twirled by Jason Vargas (see May 23 section above);
A 1-run game by Doug Fister at his best -- with a 9 6 1 1 1 7 line, mind you
An ML debut game by Blake Beavan, of all people, and
Monday's 7 strikeout, 4-hit, 1-run game by Michael Pineda

The Elusive Food Truck

Food trucks were introduced with the Late Night expansion pack, although only to the Bridgeport town. This seems to be by design, although it is a puzzling choice on EA's part. Certainly the Late Night expansion pack has been out long enough that, were there a patch to fix food truck limitations, you would think it would have been released by now.

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