Category: Vida, o universo, e todo

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Meu 2013 MLB predictions

Béisbol – quite possibly the greatest thing invented by humanity.

It’s that time of year. Lush green grass, clay-red warning track and infield, pristine white bases, sizzling hot dogs, icy slushies, the crack of wood. Baseball season.

And today’s opening day. Concedido, there’s only one game today, but it counts. (Most teams’ first game of the season is tomorrow, April 1st.) Regardless, today is a great day for all baseball fans, including me.

Background info: there are 30 teams in the MLB (major league baseball), and each plays 162 games in the regular season. The teams are split into 6 divisions of 5 teams each. The teams in each division with the most wins, máis 4 wild-card teams, move on to the playoffs.

Many baseball fans and experts – including me – take this time to predict how many games each team will win this season, as well as which team will “win” their division. Ten 2,430 games in the regular season, so we just concern ourselves with that for now. Playoff stuff comes later.

I’m a big baseball fan, so I figure this year I’ll chime in with my predictions and picks for who wins the division. I’m just a humble fan – not even close to an expert – so take my predictions with a grain of salt.

I’ve written down how I think each team will do (wins/losses), plus some analysis that’s loaded with baseball jargon. Avoid the analysis if you don’t know too much about baseball. Remember that the top team in every division (rank 1) gets to move on to the playoffs, so everyone is fighting for that spot.

Correo, without further ado, my predictions & picks.

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MLA template for Microsoft Word 2010

A screenshot of Word 2010 in MLA format.
Click this to download your free MLA Template for Word 2010

tl;dr – a free MLA format template for Word 2010A freely-downloadable "Download" button.

Eu non sei sobre ti, but I’ve had more teachers than I’d can count who graded papers solely on how well you followed the proper format and not, vostede sabe, no que eles chaman de fluff ‘contido.’

Se vostede é un estudante, posibilidades son moi boas que ten que escribir moitos, moitos traballos – todo en Formato MLA, un formato común para os documentos, ensaios, e tal. O formato MLA foi deseñado, Eu imaxino, para regular a mirada de todos os papeis e conducir estudantes tolo. Hai toneladas de regras aleatorias e directrices ten que saber, tal como:

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Segue o 2012 eleccións co rastreador elección Google Política

tl;dr -check out Google’s awesome political election tracker

I’m a political junkie, entón eu estou seguindo proceso primaria republicana deste ano co fervor con que eu, tamén un fanático por béisbol, siga béisbol – que é para dicir, moitísimo. E as principais cousas en época de elección para observar son as propias eleccións – no caso deste ano, primordial de cada estado no que os candidatos republicanos competencia.

Estas eleccións son impresionantes, pero para apreciar-los totalmente Necesito estatísticas. Necesito resultados. Necesito datos. Necesito gráficos legais. Eu teño un gran perseguidor político. Entón, mira o que eu penso:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Rexistro elección Google Política mostrando os resultados do caucus Colorado (google.com / eleccións)
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Meu (libre) Kindle reading list

Turns out there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such thing as a free book.

The cover of the Odyssey
Available for the low price of $0.00

I recently got a Kindle (the old kind, without a touch screen or 3G or a color screen or anything) for an internship I’m working on. I figured I’d get some books to read while I was at it (might as well use the Kindle for what it’s intended), so I opened up the Kindle Store on my Kindle and prepared to buy a few books.

The first book on my list was Homer’s Odyssey, which I’m currently reading in English class. I scrolled though some of the results looking for the cheapest copy. $12.50, $2.50, $0.00, $1.00, $2.00… hm, looks like I’ll get the $1 one… wait, what?!?

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A slightly radical proposal for schools

I’ve often been asked the question “If you could be king of the world for a day, what would you do?” First of all, I’d make myself king permanently, but that’s not the point. Here’s my slightly radical proposal that would be the second thing I’d do if I were king for a day.

I’m part of a club that takes out the recycling in our school in the morning. Let me tell you, we collect a lot of paper: if I collect the paper of maybe 15 rooms that haven’t had their paper collected in a few days, I can fill up a whole trash can. Not the small trash cans you have in your house, I mean ones as big as janitors use. That’s a lot.

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Seeing “Friday” in a different light

If you want a break from the tech talk…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, you’ve probably heard of (and had the misfortune of listening to) Rebecca Black’s Friday. Sabe, that song with the 13-year-olds driving cars and the nasally teenager wondering where to sit? That one.

After a shocking experience (more about that later), I’ve had to start questioning why I (and pretty much everyone I know) hate the song. Breaking it down:

  • The lyrics are junk, but most pop songs have meaningless lyrics anyway.
  • The tune’s pretty catchy, no faults there.
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