Coping: With Season Endings
Wasn’t it just recently that the World Series used to wrap up in October? Seems like there have been book titles to that effect like “The Boys of October: How the 1975 Boston Red Sox Embodied Baseball’s Ideas- and Restored Our Spirits” comes to mind. Seems like it’s been getting later, if my only point.
Now, the numbers are coming out and looks like great ratings for Fox averaging almost 20-million viewers per game. I made it through the whole season with only one hotdog and no beer. That’s a first….but easily done when I kept the TV off.
Not to harp on “What’s wrong with America” this morning, but the elections coverage story that showed Fox had just over 4-million viewers of election coverage has me wondering the obvious: 20-million for the Series: 4 million for elections…So are American’s therefore five times more interested in baseball than politics?
This is why Washington doesn’t take calls from the home district very seriously. Got download a new ap or something…it’ll pass.
Alarming Clock
Ever have one of those nights when you wake up and for some reason you just can’t get back to sleep? I must have been awake from about 2 AM until 3:30 AM and looked at the clocks two, maybe three times in that period. The tiny transistor radio I use to catch CoastToCoast snips had fallen under the bed the previous night and I was too lazy to retrieve it…so this was a classic toss & turner.
Time’s been acting weird the past week or so…probably a time hangover from Congress declaring what time it is without sending me a reminder in the mail.
Jack & the Space Elevator
Don’t know if you’ve ever read the Arthur C. Clarke books and caught the concept of the ’space elevator” but it’s an intriguing concept. Since the earth is rotating around the polls for another…er.. 1142 days anyway… Clarke figured there would be enough centrifugal force from the rotation of the earth to put some kind of modest weight out in space and then simply build an elevator to go up and down a big cable. Clever, huh?
Well fast forward to now and we’re reading now this space elevator has now come a step closer to reality with a one kilometer high test of a robotic cable climber working its way up to the helicopter.
I mention this as the last item in today’s report (rather than put it up next to the number of satellites story in the news section) because I want you to do some serious pondering on something.
I know you’re skeptical of all this talk about previous high civilizations and 2012 and so on. But when you read about how the ’space elevator’ components are being tested, doesn’t it make you wonder why some things keep popping out of the human archetype?
Like what? Oh…how about Jack and Bean Stalk?