SABR 40: day one, post two

Just wrapped up two more research presentations: Sanctioned Post-Season Series by Marty Pankin and Mike Canton Using Marcel the Monkey to Help Understand Different Eras in Baseball by Andy Andres These are kind of raw reports, and I apologize for any typos. I’m typing as fast as I can most of the time. For those…

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SABR 40: day one, post one

I’ve had no sleep so I could be on a crack of dawn flight to Atlanta, but here I am! Liveblogging what I can from the 40th annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research. There’s wireless in the conference area! So I’ll try to post more than once a day. First up: A…

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Yankees writers wanted

Yankees Annual Call for Submissions Deadline for pitches: August 15th For the fifth year in a row, I will be editing the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL. This a pre-season magazine, released at the end of February. Roughly half the content of the magazine is focused on the major league team, while the other half…

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Yankees Writers Wanted

Yankees Annual Call for Submissions Deadline for pitches: August 15th For the fifth year in a row, I will be editing the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL. This a pre-season magazine, released at the end of February. Roughly half the content of the magazine is focused on the major league team, while the other half…

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Twitter contest

Hello friends and blog followers, if you’re reading this you’re already in my proverbial loop, but if you are on Twitter too, I’m having a contest. When I reach 1500 Twitter followers I’ll give away two signed erotic books, one to a new follower, one to someone who helped rewteet about the contest. So if…

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21st Century Wannaf**ks?

Oh, the weirdness of the Internet. I just got off the phone with a guy from India. (I know from the country code of his call, not just his accent.) He tells me he got my number off of Facebook. The reason my number is out there on my web page and elsewhere is so…

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Launch Pad Diary #5

Friday July 16, 2010 4:15 pm I had the intention to blog about Launch Pad every night before going to bed, but we’ve spent so much time looking at the night sky, both with and without “official” supervision, and my brain has been so super-heated from all the astronomy, physics, math, space science, and so…

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Launch Pad Diary #4: Photos

Our schedule has been so packed I didn’t have time to blog yesterday, so here’s some photos instead! Dorms, geeks, telescopes, and spectroscopy! From Launch Pad 2010 photos Me at the small telescope on the physical science building on campus.

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Launchpad Diary #3: In which we see stars

Tuesday, July 13, 12:13 am End of the very first full day at Launchpad. We were in the classroom for nine hours today, including breaks for lunch and snacking. Each one of the three main lecturers delivered a session, and I’ve decided it’s fruitless for me to try to reproduce what they say. My notes…

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