Results tagged “inapril”

In April we asked our Bay Area sports correspondent Bob Arkansas to preview the AL West, now he's back to give his thought on Sunday's NFC Showdown.

A week ago a helpful neighbor of Seattlest's reported the fact that our car hadn't moved in ten months to the city. Chalk on the tires, then a ticket and then an impound notice appeared in quick succession. Fair enough. However, the car hadn't moved since 2006 partly because we despise the automobile and all of the congestion, traffic and earthly ruination it stands for, and partly because it wouldn't start. At 11:59 on Sunday this car--which has zero cash value and, in fact, requires several hundred dollars of repair to be drivable--would be towed and impounded at our expense. The greatest thing that could possibly have happened would be for it to be stolen and never recovered. Alas. If only we'd seen the P-I's handy guide today we'd have known to leave it unlocked and running in a dark spot, crammed full of valuables...

This is Mariner pitcher Mark Lowe. In April, while you were living in the same city you are now, working the same job, Lowe was in Lancaster, California, pitching for the Inland Empire 66ers of the California League, against such baseball powerhouses as the Modesto Nuts.

For those of you that still harbor the grudge that science is boring and painfully complex, Seattlest would like to introduce you to the buckyball. Not only is this little sucker given a name that is impossibly irresistable, it is also potentially one of the more important scientific discoveries of the past 20 years (yielding a Nobel prize for its co-discoverers in 1985). Oh fine, back to the name: nature is apparently teeming with close cousins to the buckyball, including buckytubes, buckybabies, and fuzzyballs. Seattlest couldn't make that up if we wanted to.