Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your read more

So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the read more

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.

It's a deal that started out 24 years ago with three or four of us that were tired of sitting read more

It's a deal that started out 24 years ago with three or four of us that were tired of sitting around watching football games.

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be read more

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I'm not that good a rock star.

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheering for us.

Going through the bad times the last three seasons not making the playoffs and right now still cheering for us.

I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get read more

I think we came out pretty intense with our full-court defense. We were able to cause some turnovers and get some transitions baskets.

It turned out it was easier to write the grants because we were proposing bringing a lot of different people read more

It turned out it was easier to write the grants because we were proposing bringing a lot of different people and disciplines together in one spot. I think we'll garner even more interest and research dollars working with people on campus and around the world once they see what we can do here.