Great Moments in Bad Ideas

On this day in 1995, Robert Overacker rode a jet ski off the brink of Niagara Falls and into history...and eternity.

Currently off the shelf...

Well, it's not really off the shelf since I'm reading it on my iPad via the Kindle app, but at any rate, I'm reading Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter after seeing several good reviews complimenting the writing style.

They were not wrong! This is well-written and hard to put down. I started yesterday afternoon and I'm about a third of the way in. (It's early 2020 and Elliott Management has just tried a boardroom coup to oust Jack Dorsey... again ...from the CEO's chair.)

I imagine I'll be done by this evening so I can write a proper book review.

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Charlie Hustle has left the building.

Pete Rose was controversial for a whole bunch of reasons, but there's also no denying he was one of the greatest to ever play the game.

After stints with the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos, Mr. Rose retired as a player in 1986 with 4,256 hits and a career batting average of .303, hitting above .300 for a season 15 times. Most baseball historians and stat aficionados presume that the combination of Mr. Rose’s skill and longevity — the average MLB career is about six years — will make his hits record impossible to beat.

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