Tuesday, June 21, 2005

corrections

  • Darius the Great was Emperor of Persia from 521 to 485 BC, which is pretty long after 'Something like 2000 or 1000 BC', which is what I remember saying.
  • While O's pitcher Bruce Chen is ethnicly Chinese (his parents were Mainlanders), he was born and raised in Panama.
  • Russian male life expectancy has already dropped below 60.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

corrections

  • TIGER data is provided not by the USGS, but by the Geography Division of the Census Bureau.
  • A martini is gin with a splash of vermouth.
  • Alcohol freezes well below -40 F, actually about -173.