Posted on January 13th, 2009%
It’s hard to believe that, not so long ago, blacks were forbidden from playing Major League Baseball. For a person like myself, born in 1970 and never experiencing the true meaning of segregation, it’s hard to comprehend. Alas, it’s true. One can be disappointed by this tarnished past, or be proud of how we, as a people, have overcome it.
Regardless, being excluded from “professional” baseball didn’t stop many from playing professional baseball, thanks to the Negro Leagues. Without such a league, we’d never have the opportunity to know some of the most talented athletes and colorful sports personalities to ever play the game.
The Negro Leagues brought to fame folks such as Andrew “Rube” Foster (a great pitcher and the founder of the Negro League), Satchel Paige (one of the best pitchers of all time), Josh Gibson (a power-hitting catcher)… and Prince Joe Henry.
He wore shorts as part of his uniform, his hat bill turned around crooked and was animated at the plate.ref
Prince Joe has a special place for me and some friends, for a very special reason. A few years back, RedHawk (a player of my online baseball game, CSFBL) started a new league in our game: Negro League Tribute. After starting the league, RedHawk and TFM_Dale (another community member) got in touch with Negro League legend Prince Joe. . . . → Read More: Heaven has one hell of a baseball team
Posted on January 9th, 2009%
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight proudly proclaims the following on its web site:
Our Mission: To promote housing and a strong national housing finance system by ensuring the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Just in case they take it down, here’s a screenshot, taken just a moment ago:
Still not convinced of their mission? From their Supervision & Regulations page: . . . → Read More: Time to shut down the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
Posted on January 8th, 2009%
Via CATO@Liberty…
CNN reports:
Another major American industry is asking for assistance as the global financial crisis continues: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a bailout of the adult entertainment industry.
I’d bet they have real good lobbyists…
. . .
→ Read More: Next in line for their TARP bailout is…
Posted on January 8th, 2009%
I just wrote a message on the CSFBL forums where I said, “My two cents.” Which got me wondering… How long has the expression, “my two cents” (and its many variations) been around?
Like most Google searches, I quickly was brought to a Wikipedia article, My two cents (idiom). In it, we can review a speculative history of the phrase “my two cents”:
The American phrase “my two cents” derives from the British phrase, “my two pennies worth.”
That British phrase derives from a 16th century expression, “a penny for your thoughts” (not the later “a penny for your thoughts, nickel for your kiss, a dollar to tell me you love me”).
OK, so the “my two cents” phrase has origins going back some 500 years. How do we figure out how much two . . .
→ Read More: How much are your two cents worth?
Posted on January 5th, 2009%
In the old days, we’d write something like this:
view.Rows.Add("Type");
view.Rows.Add("Count");
view.Rows.Add("Whatever");
With C# 3.0 we can do this:
new string[] { "Type", "Count", "Whatever" }
.ForEach(str => view.Rows.Add(str));
That is very cool syntatic sugar. Sure, this is not new news, but when you think about C# in the context of the new features available in 3.0, it really starts to feel a lot more like coding with JavaScript (which is a good thing).
. . .
→ Read More: C# 3.0′s syntatic sugar
