"On Brand" Story from Childhood

A Topps baseball card had a batting average that was inconsistent with a player's hit and at-bat totals, so I typed (with a typewriter) and snail-mailed a letter to Topps to inform them that their calculation, their data, or both were wrong. I also asked them what the error was. https://t.co/u3KPrC5YSq

— Mason Porter (@masonporter) February 23, 2019

(They answered me. Apparently, the batting average was correct, but the data were entered incorrectly.)

Heinlein's Checklist for Answering Mail

This is brilliant.

I particularly like that there is a box labeled "Please do not write to me again."

(Tip of the cap to Giuseppe Paleologo, who was responding to Steve Strogatz.)

WTF award: Pasadena mailboxes

Today's WTF award goes to some of the mailboxes in Pasadena (for example, see the ones on Lake & Del Mar), which have messages about some policy that is going to change on "Saturday" March 19th.

OK, so what's so special about that? First, March 19th is Monday. Second, Saturday is in quotes and underlined in the notice.

Will somebody please explain this to me? This doesn't make any sense, and my puny little mind can't handle it.