Dodgers-Cardinals, Game 1 ( Read more... )

It's Bullet Point Day on Brain Fungus ( Read more... )

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)LowLevel 2 (Lustful)Very HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)LowLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) ( Read more... )

Until next Sunday (that's October 3rd), I want everyone to think their most negative thoughts at Scott Spiezio of the Seattle Mariners and Jay Payton of the San Diego Padres.

You see, I'm just a week and a half away from winning Baseball Prospectus's HACKING MASS contest. The way you win is by choosing a team of 8 position players and two ( Read more... )

The Dodgers, recently as much as 5.5 games up on the hated Giants, now find their lead a miniscule 1.5 games going into tonight's game against the Padres, who have beaten up on the Boys in Blue of late (the Astros play the Giants in San Francisco ( Read more... )

I'm in the midst of writing an application (which includes a Research Plan and a Statement of Teaching Philosophy) for the Almost Perfect Job -- Almost Perfect because it doesn't involve working for a baseball team -- and learning that writing a Research Plan is a real pain in the ass ( Read more... )

It's finally happened. I have procured a piece of software that my nearly 4-year old laptop can not handle. I don't buy many computer games, so my poor computer probably reached this point a couple of years ago, but I just didn't realize it ( Read more... )

Wish me luck. I've now applied for two jobs. Details to follow as they become available.

Jobs. Blech. This is why I went to grad school, dammit, so I could avoid this whole process!

I worked the phonebanks for the No on 36 campaign (again, that's the campaign to defeat the constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Oregon) last night. I hate making phone calls. I have for years. But as I said in my last post, it's time to get over that and do something good. So, I went in to the county Democratic headquarters ( Read more... )

On Sunday, I attended a local organizing rally for volunteers for Carry Oregon, which is the state organization to elect Democrats to local, state and national offices. I don't really consider myself a "Democrat" so much as I consider myself a liberal, but in this nation, the Democrats are as good as I'm going to get (and don't give me any Nader ( Read more... )