A Large Regular

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The hypocrisy of MLB 

- The dark past of pool bowling hustlers

- And this is why I don't use Venmo

- On of my favorite time wasters

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- This story of Robert Mueller's past is chilling. Shameful!

- I admit I love this shirt! I'm going to have to buy one.

-  Navy's first female jet pilot dies at 65

- Interesting - Bill Simmon's Ringer made $15 million on podcast revenue last year

- Holy crap - the lure of the spider-tailed horned viper

- This 72-year old makes me feel guilty for not going to the gym

- Wow!

Love this picture of Richard Nixon playing the piano (via Super 70's Sports).

It's right up there with the iconic picture of Nixon bowling.

Or even his Nixon meets Elvis.

But it's still only second best in terms of photos of Presidents playing piano. That top spot belongs to Harry Truman with a young leggy Lauren Bacall (I don't care that Truman was only Vice President at the time of the photo).

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Newhart cast looks back at iconic series finale

- Heh Heh

- Saunas may reduce stroke risk

- Companies reinvesting Trump Tax windfall more than doing stock buy-backs. Good news for the economy.

- The Mueller probe is a joke but the longer it goes on the less funny it is.

- Cool read - nightlife is booming in Baghdad

- Cool read from the past - the dark past of bowling hustlers

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- There is no reason US taxpayers should be subsidizing college football booster programs. Especially if the potential cost is $1.9 billion over 10-years.

- I would actually like to see this become a thing

- Mookie Betts rolled a perfect 300 in the PBA World Series of Bowling

- Actual conversation between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair

- Important thing to remember about Louis CK's "apology"

- Typos often make for the best band names

- Oh snap!

- This is nuts! I get nervous just watching it.

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- 15 things about Fletch on the 30th anniversary of the movie's release.

- The statistical improbability of DeflateGate

- Thanks Obama! Swiss cheese has been losing its holes and now science knows why.

- Holy crap - has anyone seen Bill Belichick and Bill Paxton in the same room?

- The dark past of bowling hustlers.

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Who knew Vegas would grow up to be so sexy from these beginnings?

- Who knew this girl would grow up to be so sexy from these beginnings?

- Heh heh - The Onion - Picasso's Guernica Triples in value after being autographed by the 1994 New York Rangers

- People who really should have checked the background of their photos before putting them on line

- Incredible - Rubrik's juggling. (Confession - the only way I can solve ONE Rubrik's cube is to take it apart and put it back together - never mind solve three while juggling them!)

- Cool article from the archives - the dark past of bowling hustlers

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- If the JoeBots drive away Bill O'Brien - who do they think would wade into their toxic swamp to replace him?

- The Pogues Shane MacGowan seeking dental help so he can star in a Hollywood movie. You have to admit that would be great advertising for the firm that does it. "If we can fix Shane MacGowan's teeth - we can fix anyone's!"

- Interesting article about pool hustlers back in the day.

- Heh heh

OK - how's this for a way to improve your physical fitness - go bowling and drink beer! Sounds good - right?

Here's what I'd like to do. During the summer go bowling three times a week. Each time bowling I'd bowl three games. Now bowling in and of itself is exercise but the extra wrinkle I'd add is after each frame I'd do a push-up for each pin left standing. This would both help me work on my strength and give me incentive to improve my game. Although I'd have to weather the strange looks I'd get from other bowlers but I don't mind that so much. The push-ups would be the stick. The carrot would be that for each strike I'd bowl - I'd reward myself with a cold beer after bowling was done. This last wrinkle may be too much as the better I get the more damage I'd do to my liver - so the physical benefits of the experiment may actually be negative. Maybe the answer would be to average the number of strikes and spares from the three games and that would be the end of night beer reward.

You could do as many push-ups before the summer experiment started and then at the end of summer see how many more you could do. I'm guessing the number of push-ups you could do in a single "sitting" would double.