Last year, Lapham's Quarterly put out a beautiful chart about famous authors, their somewhat unremarkable day jobs, and the inspiration (and low salaries) they drew from them.
Sylvia Nasar, in her recent book "Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius," describes the observations of the 24-year-old mathematician Alfred Marshall on an unremarkable day in 1867, many years before he became one of the most influential economists of his time.
That's unremarkable these days.
The brainchild of Paul Campbell, David Rice and Eoghan McCabe – who were all freelance developers – now stretches to nine people spread between Dublin and Belfast in Northern Ireland – a fact which almost seems unremarkable these days, but which also just goes to show how times have changed.
Clarke's arrival and departure were two of the more striking moments on an otherwise unremarkable first day, but five days is a long time in cricket and lots could still happen in this match.
Not because he particularly cares about it (his own barnet is these days unremarkable: short, blonde-ish, and slightly curly) but because, over the years, it has become a globally recognised symbol of everything that's supposedly wrong with both him, and the power-ballads he inflicts on the record-buying public.
It should have been an unremarkable off-season day — the opening NASCAR race, the Daytona 500, was still two months away, and the only scheduled event was a testing session for the Automobile Racing Club of America, or ARCA, a lower-tier stock-car circuit.
Of note, a single cecal adenocarcinoma was detected in a patient with an unremarkable barium study 2 days prior to the exam.
Opaque, abstract, strange; and with that slightly forbidding ampersand… And the story is both simple and fierce: one day, an unremarkable, middle-aged high-school teacher named Elias Rukla walks out of the class he has been teaching, on Ibsen's "The Wild Duck".
Such moves would once have astounded; these days, they are unremarkable.
