theskinnyonbenny
Personal blog for ben in baton rouge.
Latest Blog Posts
- Halloween Recap
We started our Halloween morning with a trip to New Orleans. The main destination was the bug museum, but first, we made a stop by Café Degas. Who would want to go look at bugs without a belly full of jellied goose liver? In attendance were Mrs.
- History Lesson
I remember that in 9th grade, a history teacher sought to describe the immensity of China's population by telling us that you could line up all of the people in China, start marching them into the ocean, and the line would go on forever. At the time...
- Quick Sports Post
I'm having a nice blogging haiatus, thanks for asking. I've started a post -- a hum dinger of a story. I'm not sure it will translate to a typed web page, but I'll get it finished and get it posted this weekend. I've got another post in mind for .
- Our Local News Continues to be Really Bad
A few people caught me on the 6:00 news the other day. I finally had a chance to find the segent online, but it's the version from the 10:00, and I didn't make the cut for late-night. I didn't see it myself, but I've heard from a few ...
- Power Outage
Last night, we were sitting inside, listening to the rain, when there was a loud pop, followed by no power. Vanya had been running around wild, and every light in the house had been on, so the sudden dark and quiet was disconcerting. I had the lapt...
- Can I Get a Fluids Professor to Comment?
Yesterday, some miraculous combination of hydrodynamic forces combined in just the right way so that when I flushed the toilet, and the water was about to go down, a teaspoon full flew out and hit me in the shirt. That's all there is to this story,...
- Back from Maine
On Sunday, we returned home from a 10-day vacation in New England. We spent a day on each end in Boston, but the majority of the time in Maine. We stayed in a cabin in the middle of lakes, mountains, and a river, where the humidity was low, ...
