http://www.infinitivesplitter.com nuts to these internetting cranks Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:10:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What will I complain about now? Matt Morris, the veteran right-hander added by the Pittsburgh Pirates late last season to stabilize a young rotation, was released Sunday after failing to pitch past the second inning in his latest start. Morris fell to 0-4 with a 9.67 ERA after giving up six runs, ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2008/04/27/holy-smokes/ I came up with that title while lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm at 5:30 in the morning about a month ago. I had just had morphine or some other D-Day type potion administered directly into my bloodstream, so I was free to think ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2008/04/14/appendexcitement/ The Associated Press dropped this piece on Saturday, perhaps thinking no one would notice. Despite big salary, RHP Matt Morris thinks he fits in with Pirates He may be correct, but only because he's bad at baseball, like most of his teammates. Matt Morris is, in many ways, exactly the type of pitcher ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2008/02/26/matt-morris-season-resumes/ Here are some things I would have written during the last three fortnights if I were a more disciplined (and cocky) blogger: When the Steelers make the playoffs, I am sure that my sister's ex-boyfriend will send me the $100 he bet against them when we last saw each other, in ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2008/02/07/incorrect-secret-predictions/ The previous post is embarrassingly full of errors: the Times' website doesn't normally have ads in that sidebar position or in a banner under the newspaper's main logo. Still, as I said in my partial correction in the update to the post, the ad is impressive anyway. But in the ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2007/12/18/one-hundred-dollars/ I captured the image above while watching a new PC/Mac ad from Apple on the New York Times home page this morning. Advertisers buy space like this in coordinated ways all the time. But for this ad, John Hodgman and Justin Long actually interact with the sign in a way ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2007/12/14/advertising-is-interesting-to-me/ Facebook's News Feed -- the front-page stream of updates about my friends' relationships, movie tastes and weekend plans -- includes advertisements intended to be "more relevant and more interesting" to me, based on my interests and personal information. Since I've voluntarily provided Facebook with my name; age; location; book, ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2007/12/02/ad-wizardry-on-web-20/ When he isn't analyzing cheerleader uniforms or insisting on the benefits of climate change for homeowners in upstate New York, professional contrarian Gregg Easterbrook sometimes writes clever things about football. His recap of last night's Steelers-Dolphins game in today's ESPN column is pretty weak, so I'm borrowing one of ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2007/11/27/steelers-dolphins-summary/ There's a hole in the roof of my car that appears to have been made by a swiftly moving, cylindrical projectile with a diameter roughly equivalent to that of a ball-point pen. Naturally, I'm interested in the origin of the projectile -- and the manner in which it was ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2007/11/26/whatdunit/ In case you haven't heard (Hi Mom! Hi Dad!), Radiohead has opted to sell its first album in four years through its own website, for no fixed price, with minimal promotion. As of yesterday, the day after the album's release, Radiohead-devoted news site Green Plastic could only guess what ... http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2007/10/12/in-rainbows/