I was just reading wikipedia's "Did you know" section and found myself horribly confused.

Did you know...

... that Australian cricketer Arthur Morris (pictured) was the batsman at the other end when Don Bradman was bowled for a duck in his last Test innings?

I've never been more confused by a sentence in my life. All of those words make no sense next to each other.

Thankfully Wikipedia includes all those useful links in the text, so I was able to glean what this meant.

First of all, cricket appears to be the bastard child of bowling and baseball. You have one guy, the bowler, (the equivalent of a pitcher) trying to knock over a set of pins by throwing a ball at them while a guy on the other team is defending the pins with a flat bat. There are two of these "batsmen" on the field, one on either side of the pitcher and they score runs by hitting the ball and running between the two sets of pins.

To be "bowled" means the bowler managed to actually hit the pins, meaning the batsman is "dismissed", ie. "out".

To be "bowled for a duck" is to be dismissed before you manage to score any runs.

So basically this sentence means "Arthur Morris was sitting on the other side of the field while his teammate, Don Bradman, got owned. And there was nothing he could do about it... because Don Bradman sucks at cricket."

I learned something today!

As John Goodman said in The Big Lebowski, "OVER THE LINE!"

For the longest time, I have appreciated the semi-voyeuristic nature of Google's Street View. I've seen such amazing sites as someone's house on fire, a guy passed out on his lawn, and multitudes of other humorous incidents of people's shitty lives being used to give people directions.

But the tables have turned. The house I grew up in is in Street View.

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Now everyone knows that my parents are the rednecks of the neighborhood, what with all of our cars in the front yard.

It makes me wonder: why do none of their neighbors park their cars in their driveways? Who parks in a garage? That is where you put old computers and dead bodies. Seriously, I took that Google camera around half of our neighborhood and everyone seems to actually use their garages.

Fucking Renton.