We get a lot of questions about pudu maintenance. For example, some people’s pudus wobble through corners at high speed.

So how often should a pudu’s legs be rotated?  Is it better to switch out the front pair with the back, or to rotate them four ways, like with a car?

Generally, you can just switch the front legs with the back legs and get improved mileage and stability.  (Above, a pudu in mid-repair.)

With proper care, your pudu should be reliably tiny for many years to come.

Photo by an Argentine named Ricardo Cenzano, whose work I love looking at and who probably has a wonderful life.

Putting it plainiac, you’d be insaniac not to obtainiac. It’s entertainiac.

Early next year — just in time not to be just in time for the holidays, unfortunately — Ken Jennings also has a new upcoming trivia almanac, in hardbac.

If you’re a quiz-bowl type, the whole book is a cardstac.

Fun while eating hardtac in a guardshac.

I will stop now, before you complainiac.

From last weekend, here’s one of the most exciting plays in football in years — an amazing 15-lateral, 62-second-long, come-from-behind last play desperation miracle to end a Division III game between Trinity University and Millsaps College:

Compare and contrast with this string of rugby highlights I grabbed pretty much at random.  (These happen to be  from the 2002 New Zealand domestic club competition.) These are all great plays, but also perfectly typical of the game’s speed and excitement, the sort of thing rugby fans the world over take almost for granted.

You see the resemblance.

From last weekend, here’s one of the most exciting plays in football in years — an amazing 15-lateral, 62-second-long, come-from-behind last play desperation miracle to end a Division III game between Trinity University and Millsaps College:

Compare and contrast with this string of rugby highlights I grabbed pretty much at random.  (These happen to be  from the 2002 New Zealand domestic club competition.) These are all great plays, but also perfectly typical of the game’s speed and excitement, the sort of thing rugby fans the world over take almost for granted.

You see the resemblance.

While I’m thinking of Trebekistan today, a reminder:

Nineteen-game winner David Madden is still out there hiking the length of the entire east coast — from Maine’s border with Canada all the way to Key West — while raising money for Fisher House, a top-rated non-profit that provides nearby lodging so that loved ones can be nearby while wounded military veterans undergo extended treatment for war-related injuries.

Last David checked in, he was strolling along a detour through Amish country. Sounds like an amazing trip.  If you’d like to see what such a hike looks like, David’s way-cool photo albums from the walk so far are here, here, and here.

Wherever we stand on the political spectrum, I hope this is something every American can support.

I hope you’ll join me in chipping in, if you have one minute right now, plus a couple of dollars you’d like to share.

Thanks!