From the Lost and Found Dept.

As a general rule I only post things that I find interesting or entertaining. Sometimes I think other people, people I don't even know, will find what I put on these pages entertaining as well (and I'm flattered when they do). Sometimes I know what I post has a very limited audience other than myself. Often those posts are intended for family and old friends. On rare occasions I will put something here that only one or two people will understand, or care about.

For example, I know of only two people that will be interested in this tidbit:

There I am, lying on the couch last night, reading Six Degrees by Duncan Watts while listening to Tom Scharpling's show on WFMU. My hand absent-mindedly reaches down behind a couch cushion and I feel the brim of a baseball cap.

"That's unusual," I think "how could my baseball cap have gotten out of my backpack by the dining room table to behind the cushion all by itself?"

I pull the cap out and see that I'm holding one of the world's hardiest hats. It has been to the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Hemispheres. It has survived a temperature range of at least 150 degrees. It has even "enjoyed" a gospel choir and the Hard Rock Cafe in Philadelphia. And, it will soon be in the mail to its rightful owner.