The months to get (be) lucky

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January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Those are the magical months where the best of the best are first congealed in a tapioca like stew of conception. Tack on nine months and what you (may) have is a much greater probabilty of a bambino with the ability to go onto athletic excellence.

ESPN has a really good article on a new book that touches on this, and other, interesting Outliers in society. One example the article poses is that professional athletes born in the first three months of the year are more likely to make it to the big leagues.

I always knew there was a reason for my lack of personal success, but little did I know that it was all due to my parents thinking that February was a good time for whisking up the tapioca. Well, that's my excuse story and I'm sticking to it.

For all of you under-acheivers that happen to have been whipped up in the prime months of the year....what's your excuse?



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...ellipsis my friend...

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The ellipsis is my favorite piece of punctuation.

I am not sure where my fascination with it began, but at some point I just started throwing them around without a care in the world.

But really, what is the point of the 3 little points? Isn't the ellipsis just the typographical equivalent to the verbal stutter - "umm".

Oh I know that there is a proper "usage" for it, but not in my world. For me, the ellipsis is that shortcut between thoughts. A quick pause-and-go. A means to an end (or the beginning) of the next non-sentence or communicative fragment.

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