Andy Rivkin

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No, no. The 1976 Reds did this, though the NLCS was best of 5 then. If you want to say the Reds didn’t sweep back to back best-of-sevens, say that.

#AchievementUnlocked Improvising a 20-minute invited talk, without slides or other visuals, to fill in unexpectedly in the place of someone who was a no-show, to open the first session of a professional society conference.

Oct 26th 1985 - Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) drank the forever young potion. 📽️📅 Death Becomes Her (1992)

Oct 26th 1985 - Marty arrived in the alternate 1985, where Biff is a millionaire and married to Lorraine. 📽️📅 Back to the Future Part II (1989)

You’re not up yet France, but… eyes on you…

Today Serbia and Brazil, and Israel’s got next. We’re in the hole, everybody. Let’s get this done.

Thinking about friends and colleagues in Brazil, doing some mental math, and keeping hope alive. 🇧🇷

Good God do I envy that 1%.

Registered for #DPS26, now set up at the bar at the Davenport Grand. Come say hi if you like!

i think people seriously overcomplicate chili. it really only involves three ingredients: water, beans and msg. if there are any foods you’re allergic to, throw some of that in for some added zing. don’t heat the pot. don’t be performative

Oct 25th 1960 - A check was made to Paul Varjak for $50, for his short story. The day he received it, Rusty Trawler, whom Holly Golightly was planning to Marry, was in the newspaper for marrying someone else, so Paul spent the day with Holly. 📽️📅 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

He should be praying that Ukraine (among other countries) never decides to develop an extraordinary rendition team.

This is all part of a long game psyop to get the Yankees to keep Grisham in CF and Jazz at 2B.

You can buy my work at artologica.etsy.com All the paintings are hand painted originals, not prints. The scarves and ties are digital prints on silk of my artwork. I clearly disclose this. Now I'm going to do the Sunday cleaning because I am a real human being.

<nodding solemnly> The Mad Hungarian <continues nodding solemnly>

A reminder that you can see my solo show, Forces of Nature, at Harmony Hall through November 7. It's free. There's parking. I hardly ever have a solo show. You should go. #sciart www.pgparks.com/event_list/m...

Ok, I remember the Denkinger call in ‘85, and this one wasn’t even 1% as bad, assuming it was even wrong (which isn’t obvious).

Today's date is the last Pythagorean Triple date of our lifetime! (Unless you live through 2105) Here's a really cool fact about how to generate infinitely many Pythagorean triples

For a close cousin of this problem, take “Chuck Berry” and “popular music” and substitute “ex-Nazis” and “the Space Age”.

Frodo wake up hour

Other things aside, does he imagine anti-Castro Cubans are going to look at our treatment of antigovernment voices in Venezuela and Iran and go “yeah, I think I’m feeling good about working with the US right now”?

Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage

Smoking was everywhere. Bars, restaurants, airplanes! Its practcal disappearance from everyday life for non-smokers* is a blessing. *or non-smokers without smoking family members/friends, anyhow

Three Space Telescope Science Institute fellowship applications for promising postdoctoral scientists working in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, or planetary science are closing soon. 🧪 🔭

MLB pitcher Oscar Levis (Levy) was Black, and he was Jewish; a great new story. His WAR of 12.9 ranks 8th all-time among Jewish pitchers: Koufax (48.9), Fried (32.3), Holtzman (27.3), Roberts (23.6), Pelty (19.2), Stone (17.1), Mayer (13.5). www.jta.org/2026/10/23/s... h/t Brad Kolodny

Did the thing.

I have a little poem published in chlorophyll mag today: chlorophyllmag.com/the-audacity...

Hera’s second braking manoeuvre yesterday reduced the spacecraft’s velocity relative to the Didymos and Dimorphos system by 70 m/s from a distance of 2300 km away. A trio of smaller ‘transition’ manoeuvres this coming week will reduce Hera’s relative velocity down to near zero. hera.esa.int

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title "Grease In My Pants"

Oh, my dear blue girlfriend. I'm not sure I want to read this or watch the trailer. :(

Two amazing characters and icons of infrared astronomy!

Paper day! My PhD student Richard Cannon collects the modelled contact binaries in the Solar System to analyse their properties and proposes methods of describing them 🔭☄️🪨 arxiv.org/abs/2610.29805 There's also a useful on-line table accompanying the paper: recannon.github.io/contact_bina...

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For Carrie Frances: 🎂 ❤️

"If I were racist, my hands would only be bloody from helping to kill Africans and Asians. Since I'm also willing to kill Ukrainian civilians, I'm clearly not racist. Checkmate, libs."

The APL-built MEGANE instrument is on its way to Mars aboard JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft. By measuring the elemental composition of Phobos, MEGANE will help scientists investigate how the small, potato-shaped Martian moon formed. https://jhuapl.link/0664cd

it is taking every ounce of willpower not to leave the office and go get some ice cream and sit in the sun

“[In 1987] George brought a little cake to my dressing room. In the photo, there is me with George and Jeff Lynne, Roger McGuinn, Bob Dylan, [Benmont Tench] and Mike Campbell — all of my favorite people right there, and it was so sweet.” - Tom Petty Remembering Tom Petty on his birthday.

Oct 20th - The Beaver Examiner reported the arrest of Bob and Doug McKenzie. 📽️📅 Strange Brew (1983)

And here are my thoughts for the World Series. I think I mostly just want a bunch of great, exciting games with as little Bud Selig as possible.

Condolences to Cleveland fans, especially those in my family. Great year for the Guards.

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