Happy Passover

Happy Pesach to anyone for whom that is relevant.  I'm going to my uncle's house in just a bit.  My grandma makes really good gefilte fish, which, if you know what gefilte fish is, probably sounds like an impossibility.  But, no, it's really good!

Even better: I got new glasses today.  Doctor upped my prescription from -2.00 to -2.50, so even though the old ones were just fine, and I could see things, now I can read street signs that are like 3 blocks away!  I'd forgotten what that's like, and had resigned myself to living in a world where you can only read street signs 2 blocks away.  But now -- well, anything is possible!  The world is my 20/20 oyster.

NYTimes article about Larry Wilmore, one of the new-ish Daily Show correspondents.  He sounds pretty funny.  I don't watch The Daily Show as often as I wish I did.

And, it's opening day!  Sort of.  Last night was opening day.  I watched the Mets-Cardinals on TV.  Most of the rest of baseball starts today.  It's spring!  No one cares, but the players I've ended up with on at least 3 of the 6 fantasy baseball teams I've ended up with: Chris Young (the outfielder, not the pitcher), Anthony Reyes, Greg Maddux, Matt Holliday, Hanley Ramirez, Adam Wainwright, Ben Sheets, Jeremy Bonderman, Brian McCann, Prince Fielder, and Dave Roberts.  Baseball Prospectus readers may note that these are all players that Baseball Prospectus is higher on than, say, the Yahoo auto-rankings.  And since my draft preparation mostly involved plugging the scoring algorithms into Baseball Prospectus's Player Forecast Manager, the ones they like are the ones I drafted.  The amount of content on Baseball Prospectus recently has been pretty impressive -- I don't mean to shill for them, but it's really solid reading, pretty much every day.

Comments

[gefilte lover]

Gefilte fish is great, especially out of the jar! Happy Passover!

[Cathy]

Your grandma actually makes it? From scratch?

My dad remembers his neighborhood in the Bronx, when Friday afternoons the alleys would all echo with the chop-chop of all the grandmas chopping their fish in the wooden bowls.

[MF]

Wilmore is hilarious. If you didn't see that bit with him and Jon Oliver about the n word, you should check it out on the comedy channel's website. It was so funny.