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Posted in Outside the box on Dec 28th, 2009
A while back I got the chance to interview Gary, the guy behind TheBaseballCube.com. What Gary did sounds simple: he took data that was publicly available and compiled it in one convenient place.
In this case, the data just so happens to be baseball statistics—something I’m obsessive about. So when I found his site, I was [...]
Posted in Outside the box, Tips on Dec 7th, 2009
You know those nights where you go to sleep REALLY late? When the alarm goes off and you’re so confused you think it’s the smoke detector? And when you get up you can’t believe it’s time to go to work?
Those days suck—you know you’re going to be dragging ass all day long and it’s just [...]
Posted in Happiness, Motivation, Outside the box on Oct 1st, 2009
Wine is good for getting buzzed in a civilized way, without people thinking you’re a lush. Other than that, I don’t have much use for it.
I went to my first wine tasting this year and, while it was pretty fun, my bottom line is that wine is kinda boring.
So why have I been spending the [...]
Posted in Motivation, Outside the box, Tips on Sep 8th, 2009
Steve Prefontaine was one of the greatest long-distance runners of all time. I became a huge fan of his after watching Without Limits and Prefontaine (both very good movies) back in middle school. This was way before I started running in races like the Urbanathlon.
Even if you don’t like running, “Pre” was a very interesting [...]
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
