The crew manifests still exist, and one Harry D. S. Goodsir is listed as the Assistant Surgeon on the Erebus.

I always thought it was fitting that Ray Lewis was the first big football player to sign with “Under Armor.”

I live to serve.

When the star’s that far away? Spectroscopy. Identify the absorption lines in the spectrum, which tells you how far away it is. Measure the brightness in different colors (the UBVRI system is a common, though dated, way) to determine type of star. That gives you a rough idea of type and luminosity.

Scientists recently proved that they could measure the mass of a star using the way it bent the light of the stars behind it

“We’re proud of the way you represent yourselves, your university, and your state. And that is a great, great state. I know because I won it by 32 points.”

The next thing I saw him in after Princess Bride was in Glory. He was the “other” white guy next to Broderick. It just really looks like he guessed wrong on a lot of roles.

He may have gotten market-corrected a little bit too. He is basically the same age as Depp, Pitt and Cruise and they collectively crowded him out.

The Princess Bride DVD had a great “making-of” feature that Patinkin and Shawn participated in. The best Andre stuff I remember from that was Christopher Guest, who said he made a point of shaking hands with him every day, just because it never stopped amazing him how big Andre’s hands were.

On another topic, when…

Ah, you read the subtext.

So much great nonsense in that article.

He has zero qualifications for running a team or a business except “My name is Derek Jeter.”

My comment appears to be a little unclear. Sir John was trying to convince people that a positive attitude is enough to fend off arctic weather and his wife is trying to convince different people that it is not.

What I find remarkable about this production is that even though we know how this story ultimately turns out - I’ve read the book, but it’s all a matter of history since this is fictionalized account of a real expedition - the narrative manages to be thrilling and tense just the same. Maybe it’s because of its…

As one of the last remaining Expos fans in the USA, I don’t like to say I told you so.

I WANT to love historical fiction but so often movies and shows get it wrong, they aren’t doing “honest” historical fiction. If that may sound a bit contradictory, let me use an example. Consider racism as it existed in the Jim Crow south. Very few works of historical fiction get this right. They usually cast it as…

Presumably Jeets is doing this because his ownership group didn’t actually have enough money to own and operate a baseball team. So the game plan is to slash payroll, collect revenue sharing and TV money (which is not tied to their performance) for a few years, pick up a few prospects, and maybe eventually get around…

Let me root, root, root for the home team

WHAT. IS. THE. END GAME?

I noticed that unlike many other series I’ve watched, there have been no preliminary “Viewer discretion advised” announcements about the gore, violence, and “sexual situations” in this series. Perhaps AMC figures that if you’re watchng the network of “The Walking Dead” then you’re game for anything.