This Wired article has a collection of a few of them, and they’re rather interesting.

Via Kottke.

Remembering that with the 7% discount given with purchases of more than $10 and the limit of only being able to make purchases in $.05 increments, a $39.95 purchase gives a $2.80 bonus so you’ll be able to get exactly 19 rides at the regular fare rate of $2.25 per ride from the $42.75 you’ll end up with on the card, leaving no money left over at the end.

There’s also other numbers that work: $35.75 gives 17, $37.75 gives 18, $73.60 gives 35, $75.70 gives 36, and $77.80 gives 37 rides; but I think $39.95 will be the easiest to remember.

And because Random House has it listed on Gay Talese’s website’s essays page, the PDF of the article is available for download. Read that; then watch this:

Amazing.

See Seven Second Summits for details.

Justin Verlander did not get his 25th win for the season, but watching this suicide squeeze that turned out to be the winning run was really cool.

Here’s a photo I took; that’s Willie Randolph in the third base coach’s box. Oh, and that hot dog vendor in the lower right seems like he has a lot of fun with his job.

Edit: (10/3/2011) That hot dog vendor? His name is Charley Marcuse and he’s been selling hot dogs with the Tigers since 1999. And he does have a lot of fun with his job. I can hear him in the background of tonight’s radio broadcast and the announcers took note of it at one point just a moment ago.

I found the link to the video in /r/Minecraft, and the fact that I found it there goes a long way in describing my appreciation for what he’s doing. I see some parallels in what goes on in Minecraft and what he does.

He’s even got a blog. He really seems to enjoy what he’s doing, and I think he does a great job doing it.

Via Reddit.

What comes though to me the strongest is Zack’s love of baseball. It’s nice to read about something he so obviously cares about.

Also of note is that I saw Mike Trout play AA ball about three and a half months ago. In that game (recap, box score) I didn’t get to see him hit a home run, but I did get to see him catch a fly ball, walk, advance to second, steal third, get stranded at third, strike out swinging, catch another fly ball, field a line drive, ground out, catch another fly ball, walk again, and then get thrown out at second in the first out of a double play that ended the game.

Trout is just shy of his twentieth birthday, but it seems like he might go pretty far.

Via Ben.

But have no fear, for some it’s a side effect, but for others, that’s exactly what they are looking for. So, interestingly enough, you can also get it as a nighttime sleep aid, just down the aisle. Same dosage, same availability in generic form: just a different color pill.

Even more interesting is that one randomized, double-blind, crossover study has shown that tolerance to the sedative effect of the drug after just three days was indistinguishable from a placebo. So that’s good news for the allergy sufferers who don’t want to be sleepy in the daytime, but not so good news for the people that can’t sleep and attempt to use it a few days in a row.

I’ve recently been on a binge of Audrey Hepburn movies; and boy, was she a great actress. Marni Nixon is also a good singer.

And that as new and improved apples with better color and earlier harvests have been cultivated, the Red Delicious has begun to fall by the wayside.