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A Hope in Hell (thing)

2013-05-11T05:07:19Z

Salinas Escobar faced the stranger's door, the door of a new neighbor just one of many who he would have to stand in front of on this day. Salinas Escobar 's feet were moist and cold even though the day was warm and dry and sunny. His heart throbbed and his neck and temples ached. His insides struggled with the need to defecate, even though Salinas had been too nervous to desire to eat anything for breakfast or for dinner the night before.

Salinas Escobar faced the stranger's door and recited his litany inside his head, unable to find the courage to overcome his fear of knocking on the door. Salinas did not really need to recite what he would say when the door opened because he had spoken it many times that morning and many, many times in the past months in a number of different neighborhoods. Always he recited his litany with the fear which paralyzed him just as he was at this current moment but not without a shade of hope that, for once, his words would be…

TSB (thing)

2013-04-13T22:46:18Z

TSB is internet slang meaning True Story, Bro. It is most often used as an confirmation that you find someone's humorous statement to be both humorous and true.

Duritanium (thing)

2013-03-29T17:37:59Z

Duritanium (or duratanium) is the Star Trek equivalent of adamantium -- a super-hard, super-durable metal that is used for hull plating and other structures that require a smerpload of reinforcement. It first appeared in the Voyager series, but was also mentioned in the Star Trek prequel, Enterprise. No real information is given, other than the facts that it is traded on the open market, it can be used to reinforce starship hulls, and can be used (and thus, presumably molded/shaped) by a starship without returning to port.

November 16, 2012 (log)

2012-11-17T00:31:00Z

I am sometimes annoyed by how much teachers harp on race relations in the elementary school. From about third grade on, our school will generally have 2-3 units a year per grade explaining to the kids how horrible life was back when we had... genocide, slavery, segregation, and so forth. Which is important to know, but I can't help but feel that telling 8-year-olds that people used to hate people like you is not necessarily a good educational choice, no matter how positive you paint our social progress since.

And now for something else.

So, this morning I had taken a student to her regularly scheduled speech class, and we were waiting for a new student who was supposed to join us as soon as his bus got in. The two had not met yet, and all that Jane knew was that the new kids was 1) a boy and 2) in first grade, which was a little worrying, because Jane is still in Kindergarten (but the new boy's…

House call (idea)

2012-11-03T21:08:06Z

A house call is when a professional, most often a physician, goes to a person's home to provide services. Sadly, very few physicians will still make house calls, and so they are seen as a sign of a bygone, more service oriented age.

Perfect game (event)

2012-10-17T19:24:31Z

In Major League Baseball, a perfect game is achieved by a pitcher who throws a complete game without allowing a single baserunner—no hits, no walks, no errors, no hit batsmen, no reaching first on a dropped third strike, no fielder interference. Below is a list of each perfect game pitched in the history of Major League Baseball.

Pre-modern era

Date	Pitcher	Score	Notes
June 12, 1880	Lee Richmond	Cleveland Blues 0 at Worcester Ruby Legs 1	5 K
June 17, 1880	John Montgomery Ward	Providence Grays 5 at Buffalo Bisons 0	5 K

Modern era

Date	Pitcher	Score	Notes
May 5, 1904	Cy Young	Philadelphia Athletics 0 at Boston Americans 3	8 K
October 2, 1908

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