Last weekend when my sisters were visiting, I used Google Maps to get driving directions from Boston to Manchester, MA. However, I was ambiguous about which Manchester, and Google maps gave me driving directions from Boston to Manchester, England. I’ll let that sink in. The directions tell you to go Long Wharf and then swim across the Atlantic Ocean to France, and take a slight right. It even allocates 29 days of time for the swim, which is 3,462 miles. I’m not a swimmer, but to complete this leg you’d have to average 5mph, which sounds impossible. I’ve been looking for other places that return crazy directions, but unfortunately it seems like you only get to go swimming if your driving between the US and Europe.
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Mississippi Braves AA manger goes crazy
This AA Braves coach freak-out may be the greatest ejection of all time. I wonder if he thought this stuff up on the fly, if it was partly premeditated, or if he does stuff like this all the time. Covering the plate with dirt and drawing in a much bigger plate? Using the resin bag like a grenade and lobbing it at the umpires? Pure genius!
Glass blowing
This spring I took a beginner glass blowing class at the MIT glass lab. I got lucky because there’s always a lot of interest in the class and not much space, and the spots are assigned through a lottery. The class was awesome, although working with glass is much more difficult (and hotter, your arms and hands feel like they’re sunburned when you’re finished) than it looks. Hopefully I will get the opportunity to take another class in the fall. Anyway, we made paperweights, variously glassware including bowls and cups, pumpkins, and got to experiment with color. Here are some pictures of some of my better pieces:
