Guess what time Joba Chamberlain was removed from tonight’s game due to injury

Here’s the visual on the traffic log for River Ave. Blues tonight. Joba Chamberlain, the Yanks’ young right-handed pitching stud, was taken out of the game due to what the team is calling a stiff right shoulder. Your task is to guess at what time the injury occurred. This is not, admittedly, the toughest guessing game ever.

Time Warner is all sorts of awesome

Right now, I’m getting that lovely DNS error above when I try to access a few certain sites on the Internet.

As Tommy said, “At least it’s not the most heavily trafficked site on the net or anything, you know, cause if it were, that would be inconvenient.”

Fine dining in a bus

Google’s Street View feature is a generally helpful tool. You can use it to get a visual on a new neighborhood; see what’s on the ground outside an unfamiliar subway station; or catch a crime in progress.

Unfortunately, Google doesn’t have much of a sense of humor about Street View so when weird sights and crimes pop up, the search engine giant is quick to remove the questionable material. But what about blocked views?

Last week, my sister and I were getting together for lunch, and she Google Mapped the restaurant. When she plugged in the address, she found out that we were going to be dining inside an articulated New York City bus. I don’t think that’s quite what these folks would like to know about their restaurant.

Be excellent to each other

RIP, Rufus.

To the great State Commonwealth of Massachusetts

You did not win the NBA Championships. The Celtics won the NBA Championship. Shockingly, there is a difference.

Grammar we can believe in

John McCain’s presidential campaign is running the above ad all over the Internet. While McCain thinks his opponent is a threat to common sense, it seems, John McCain is a bigger threat to something more important: the English language. So I’d like to pose a few questions to the senior Senator from Arizona.

1. Is it OK to split an infinitive?
2. Is it OK to capitalize randomly the first letters of some words but not others?

Elect a leader with good grammar.

The Pen Is Mightier

Are we two or twenty-five? You decide. Initials are used to protect the innocent.

Ben: i just got a spam filter notification at my work e-mail address with the subject line “Update your Penis”
Ben: best spam subject line ever
Ben: i should have upgraded to penis 2.1 ages ago. what have i been waiting for
SR: lol
SR: new patch available
Ben: 2.1.1?
SR: security update
Ben: does it have a code name? like Leopard? Penis X
SR: lol
SR: ok thats too funny
SR: i’m still laughing
Ben: me too
Ben: i crack myself up.
SR: hehehe
Ben: perhaps this penis upgrade is still in beta
Ben: that’s a risky proposition
SR: yeah you don’t want to be a beta-tester of that upgrade
SR: don’t want the system to crash

And an old headline tip-o’-the-hat to a classic Celebrity Jeopardy.

It’s been nice knowing you

The world is going to end on June 12. Good night, and good luck.

How many New York Times reporters does it take…?

Two men scaled the new New York Times building yesterday. How many reporters did it take to report on the story? Well, James Barron wrote it, but he needed some help:

Reporting was contributed by Charles V. Bagli, Russ Buettner, Sewell Chan, Glenn Collins, David W. Dunlap, Jason Grant, Christine Hauser, Corey Kilgannon, Eric Konigsberg, Jennifer 8. Lee, Trymaine Lee, Patrick McGeehan, Colin Moynihan, William K. Rashbaum and Paul von Zielbauer.

I guess they just stationed a reporter on every floor and watched Alain Robert and Renaldo Clarke climb. Good work, guys. It took only 16 of you to report this story!

(Hat tip to mom.)

Wine will make you live longer

So says The New York Times today. Sounds good to me. I don’t need any excuses to drink more red wine.