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Category Archives: My Life
rm -rf *
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Even though I have a good reason to do it, typing rm -rf * always makes me upset.
One Dollar
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
I have just entered into a suckerbet respectable wager with Dee. She wanted to bet a dollar on what happen to the Dow after Obama wins. (If Obama loses, no money changes hands.) But if Obama wins, one week after McCain concedes, she believes that based on enthusiasm and optimism for Obama, the Dow will [...]
Not That I Ever Really Loved The Philadelphia Flyers
Saturday, October 11, 2008
But this makes me want them to lose all the time now.
PECOTA
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
You may or may not be aware, but the guy who runs the now super-popular political website fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver, has been a big deal in baseball stat-head circles for a long while. He has a system of making baseball projections called PECOTA, which is short for something very impressive sounding that I forget right [...]
God Bless America
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
At the Pirates game last night, for the first time in seven years that I remember, they did not sing God Bless America at the seventh inning stretch.
I’m glad I don’t have to sit through that cantankerous ditty anymore while the rednecks stare at me, wondering why I’m not standing with my hand over my [...]
Nyjer Morgan
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Pirates lost tonight, but Nyjer Morgan is so cool.
I realize that he’s not a good player, and that he’ll never be a good player. The Pirates fans who talk about Nyjer Morgan as if he’s a prospect are overlooking the fact that he’s twenty-seven years old and has yet to log a full year [...]
