Monday, August 31, 2009

Dodgers acquire infielder Ronnie Belliard

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The Dodgers acquired infielder Ronnie Belliard in a trade with the Nationals . Um, why? What we really need are pitchers. I just don'...
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Pictures from Wroclaw

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Here are some pictures from Wroclaw . Also, here is my photoblog in case you haven't looked at it in a while.
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Quote of the Day

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The following comment just occurred in one of the modeling week talks: "If you ignore the bad parts, then it's a good model." ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Poland so far

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I've been a bit silent for a few days, so here are some of the things going on in Wroclaw. I'll post pictures later (aside from the...

Headline: Naked man commandeers bus carrying students

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I think the headline for this CNN article says it all. The only commentary I want to provide is that this incident happened in Atlanta and...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Cockney option on ATMs

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As reported by CNN, some London ATMs are now offering Cockney as an option . Awesome!
Friday, August 21, 2009

What happens in the Motherland stays in the Motherland

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Tomorrow I am taking my first trip to Poland, which is the country where all my grandparents were born.* (Hence, I guess it's the Grand...
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Scurvy Cubs

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It's official. The Chicago Cubs are being sold to a family by the name of Ricketts . I checked wikipedia quickly to see if it was the ...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Human Cooker: Order now at Sears

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Surely, this is somebody's idea of a practical joke , right? Right? In case the Sears website in question gets altered or removed (and ...

Flowchart for "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

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Wow! This is just awesome! (It's also "awesome"!). The Huffington Post has posted a flowchart for the song "Total Ecl...

High School interventions

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Here's the straight line (you provide the joke): My high school is adding "intervention periods" to its class schedule starti...

"Awesome" online security code

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I was buying tickets to the February 20th 2010 Depeche Mode concert in London---Oh, Hell yes!!!!! (and the set lists for most of the concer...

Dodgers sign Vicente Padilla

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In an attempt to help address our continually-exacerbating starting pitching woes, the Dodgers have signed Vicente Padilla , who was recentl...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Dynamic communities in multichannel data: An application to the foreign exchange market during the 2007–2008 credit crisis

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The title of this article, which was just officially published today, is a bit of a mouthful. This paper is the first foray by my research...

Baseball Injury Cover-Ups

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Jerry Crasnick writes about some baseball injury cover-ups . I'm not sure how he got through this article without mentioning Chris Brow...

Science Tattoos

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Here is a blog entry on Accidental Mysteries about science tattoos I have seen Schrödinger's equation a couple of times, and there was t...

MIT Technology Review's Young Investigators (TR35) for 2009

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MIT Technology Review has released its list of 35 investigators under 35 for 2009. Among the list is a very familiar name: Ellis Meng , a...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Quote of the Day

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Today's quote comes from an anonymous referee who wrote the tie-breaking referee report that caused a paper of mine to be accepted for p...
Monday, August 17, 2009

My wireless printer/scanner/copier is set up!

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I bought my first printer ever when I purchased my new computer last month. In my immense laziness, I only set it up today. The printer is...

Quote of the Day: Bulwyer-Lytton edition

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Today's quote comes from the curator of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest: "Your submission has arrived and will receive the treatm...