perfunctory is sometimes enough

Birds as notes

Music by birds.

Jani's at the mercy of her mind

Jani talks about living in Calalini. Where is Calalini? She leans in to whisper her secret. “Calalini is on the border between this world and my other world.”

The yin and the yang

She’s the messiest person I’ve ever met in life,” Mr. Davoli said of the woman who never closes the kitchen cabinets and loses her keys regularly. “I have to pick up after her.” But he also has obsessive-compulsive disorder, a common condition for those with Tourette’s, leading to excessive tidiness. “If I didn’t have to pick up her stuff, I’d still have the O.C.D. compulsion and I would end up reorganizing the kitchen cupboard. Her being messy is helpful, in a way, for preserving my sanity.

The eBay creation myth and other corporate origin stories

Along the way, it’s mentioned that the whole story about eBay being founded to trade Pez dispensers is a myth.

How do you beat a guy who throws righty and lefty? You don't

You’ll probably never witness an unassisted triple play in your lifetime, right? (There have been only 14.) Or see an intentional walk with the bases loaded. (Six.) Or watch one player hit two grand slams in an inning. (Once.) But you can see something right now that hasn’t been around in baseball since the late 1800s: a switch-pitcher.

Brutus and me

Brutus’ face says it all: “What? Don’t act like you’ve never seen a bear in a jacuzzi”.