Coty's Weblog

Life, The Universe, and Jackie Robinson

Given the geeky tone of this weblog, it probably won't come as a surprise for me to reveal that I'm not much of a sports fan. What little awareness I have of current events in sports comes via NPR.

So, today I heard the end of a report on the anniversary tomorrow of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier in baseball. The report mentioned that Jackie Robinson's number was being retired not only by his team but by every major league team. That number was 42. Being the geek I am, I couldn't help thinking of the other significance of that number.

BTW, though it isn't surprising, I didn't know until researching this a bit that Google's calculator knows the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Me on a bike

A belated posting, but nothing new about that. Just got links to pictures from the MS 150 ride that I did a few weeks back. That is me finishing on the second day.

The ride turned out to be a bit longer than I'd expected: 115 rather than 90 miles. The reason is that overnight stop had to be moved because the original location was being used to house Katrina evacuees. The first day was 55 miles. The second was 60. The first actually seemed harder to me than the second, which was surprising. One thing that probably made the first day harder was that I thought it was only going to be 50 miles, so the last 5 miles were a continuous, draining surpise—and largely uphill to boot.

Anyway, I'm really glad I did it. All my thanks to everyone who supported me. I raised a good bit of money, which is good for MS, and I got out and got back into biking, which was good for me. I don't think donations close until October 12th, so feel free to click on the link on the right to do more good for MS.