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:
Ski season is over…except for Tuckermans
It’s sad, but unfortunately Killington is closing today. I can’t keep denying that it’s not yet spring, although spring skiing this year was epic, even though the resorts didn’t have enough employees left to operate all their lifts. This spring is especially depressing because of the bleak outlook for next year. The ASC resorts have been broken up and sold, because ASC seems to care only about The Canyons. Hopefully now that the resorts are in competition, they will have good deals, discounts, and cheap season passes, but given the lift ticket prices at places like Stowe, maybe that’s wishful thinking. I may be skiing Mad River Glen a lot next year, because I can get a college pass for ~$200.
Luckily I still have a couple of runs to be skied at Tuckerman’s Ravine on Mt. Washington…although the ~20 minutes of skiing requires 6 hours of hiking. I will be there next weekend, weather permitting.