There something happening here what it is ain't exactly clear
Is it possible that my assessment of a situation, based on views from a distance and not from direct discussion with the people involved, might have been wrong? Events at the pinball league's Zen Tournament on Tuesday suggest this is possible at least.
This is particularly about our league's champion; we had taken him to be getting rather serious with a woman he'd been bringing to leagues. He showed up at the tournament without her and naturally was asked where she was. He deflected it by acting like he didn't recognize the name, which might just be a joke. He's got a very deadpan expression and I could see pulling that joke to throw people, but he also kept it up past the point I'd feel comfortable doing it. 
bunny_hugger and other league folks think that they may have split up.
No way to tell, really, without doing something radical like asking him.
And the humor blog! You wondered about that, didn't you? Please? Run since last Thursday have been:
- A State Of Constant Change, last week's major piece, in which I get all grumbly about commemorative quarters.
- Popeye: The Last Resort, looking over a remarkably good cartoon from a generally bad era.
- Statistics Saturday: Your Christmas Songs Schedule, helping you figure out what to listen to and how to react to it.
- Not The Usual Rankin/Bass Ponderings, because I was watching Frosty the Snowman and something came to mind.
- A Heavenly Autocomplete, the wonderful sort of thing you get from DuckDuckGo. That I do, anyway.
- Little Nemo in Mathmagicland, pointing out a striking Little Nemo comic strip and then a link to my mathematics blog because I talked about comic strips.
- And Yet I Remain Suspicious, based on the Scarlet Knights getting an alleged bowl bid.
- Is That Enough? because that's my big piece for this week, and it's a Christmas song one. I might sound a little cranky. I do that.
Trivia: By 1819 the Land Office of the United States had outstanding loans of about $22 million. The Second Bank of the United States had outstanding loans of about $10 million, many secured with land borrowed from the Land Office.
Source: A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters, Scott Reynolds Nelson.
Currently Reading: Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986 - 2011, Rick Houston.
PS: Gaussian distribution of NBA scores, reblogging a neat little bit of sports trivia that's got the makings of a good probability distribution here. Fifth of these posts since the last roundup.