Enquirer note, and two pics

The above is from the Enquirer-Democrat. I know you can't read it, so I'll quote the last paragraph: Ryan's Pub baseball team was champion of the CISL Eastern Division of the Central Illinois Sports League. Team members were Jon Reid, Dan Armstrong, Jared Benjamin, Greg Burcham, Josh Reece, Josh Manning, Jason Bertinetti, Tim Lambeth, Josh Mahkovzt, Brad Suhling, and Brad Shade.

Here are a couple pics I took after the last game of that tournament. Dan got a bit beat up in that game.

Back-yard Nature

Whilst mowing Gramma and Gramps's back yard, I noticed this tree trunk



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The Poo Rock

Recently a student brought me "rock" one of her coworkers asked me to identify. She called it the Poo Rock. See why?







So far I've determined it's not really a rock at all, but a piece of metal. It conducts electricity. It's density is close to that of selenium, but it's probably not selenium, but rather an alloy of some sort. My next step is to determine it's specific heat, and try to find an alloy that matches its density and specific heat.

Pictures and a Video relating to Jeff's visit

As you may remember, I had problems getting pictures and video into my last post. I'm still having problems, in that the "pictures" show up as html code until I hit Publish Post, but then they appear as normal pictures in the actual post. Oh, well, have a look:

Here's Jeff and Mie



Mie and us:



The wonderful lacquered plate Mie gave us:



One of the place mats she gave us:



Lamphier Park, Sliders batting:



Man with bucket on his head:



Speedy, the Sliders' mascot:



Speedy again:



There goes Speedy



And finally, Jeff improvising on the piano: