Many sports are dangerous for fans, getting hit by a bat or a foul ball in baseball or a car at a Nascar race is pretty risky stuff, but it all pales compared to dangers of watching cricket.

Father’s Day is sometimes reduced to a Hallmark Holiday, an excuse to give gifts or feel bad if you don’t. For me it is normally a day of reflection on my life and how I am doing as a father.

My Father and Grandfather Abbott remain the measures I judge myself off of. My mistakes have been mostly my own in life, but when I think to the core decisions that have set my path I can see my Father’s and Grandfather’s influence in them. I am not sure what they did to set this mold in my life, but I know I am the proudest of my son when I see him measure himself by the same measures. It is as close to immortality as we poor humans get on this world and with poor parenting, tragedy or broken families it can disappear completely, but I love seeing my Grandfather live on just a bit in my son. I know my Father will live on there as well and if I don’t screw it up maybe I will be there after I am gone as well.

Happy Father’s Day to all.

It has been a hard decade plus three to be an Orioles fan, just when you think you can’t sink any lower, they manage to do it.

Not only are the Orioles the only team in the league without a homer from a first baseman, but the Arizona Diamondbacks (.271), Milwaukee Brewers (.270) and Cincinnati Reds (.263) also all have higher cumulative slugging percentages from their pitching staffs than the Orioles are getting from first base.

Agony oh AAAGGGOOOOOKNEEEE!

Apple computer is working hard to bring back the golden age of American puritanism.

This is an exclusive club that I would rather not join, but I do respect the heck out of the members.

England safe at last as the scourge or Dwile Flonking is finally over. I am told they were once a great Empire before the nannies got them. I bet Jeremy Clarkson was a rabid dwile flonker when he was young.

This is an excellent little video.

Via Rosscott, Inc

Many banks use secret questions to help verify your identity. Often these are easily guessable or googleable things like your Mother’s maiden name or where you went to High School, but some banks are now allowing you to make your own questions, which is a good thing as this will be much harder to break. However, this is the greatest response to creating your own questions I have ever seen. I rarely laugh out loud (or LOL) for real, but as I imagined the poor banker reading these I was laughing like a mad man. Not work safe however if you have someone reading over your shoulder.

Some fundamentalists are more fundamental than others. Not sure this is a cultural revival I am fan of.

The next person who tells me how counter cultural they are for using Apple products gets slapped.