Categoria: Vida, o universo, e tudo

Apenas pensamentos aleatórios sobre a vida, o universo, e tudo.

Meu 2013 MLB predictions

Baseball – 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, mais 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. Tem 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.

E, sem mais delongas, 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 – um modelo de formato livre MLA para o Word 2010A freely-downloadable "Download" button.

Eu não sei sobre você, mas eu tive mais professores do que eu posso contar quem papéis classificados unicamente sobre a forma como você seguiu o formato adequado e não, você sabe, no que eles chamam de fluff ‘conteúdo.’

Se você é um estudante, chances são muito boas que você tem que escrever muitos, muitos trabalhos – em todos Formato MLA, um formato comum para os documentos, ensaios, e tal. O formato MLA foi concebido, Eu imagino, para regular o olhar de todos os papéis e estudantes a galera. Há toneladas de regras e orientações aleatórias você tem que saber, tal como:

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Siga o 2012 eleições com o rastreador eleição Google Política

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

I’m a political junkie, so I’m following this year’s Republican primary process with the fervor with which I, also a baseball fanatic, follow baseball – which is to say, very much. And the main things in election season to watch out for are the elections themselves – in this year’s case, each state’s primary in which the Republican candidates compete.

These elections are awesome, mas para desfrutar plenamente deles eu preciso Estatísticas. Eu preciso de resultados. Eu preciso de dados. Eu preciso de gráficos legais. Eu preciso de um rastreador grande político. Então olhe o que eu encontrei:

Google Politics Colorado Primary Result
Google rastreador eleitoral Política mostrando os resultados do caucus Colorado (google.com / eleições)
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Meu (livre) Kindle lista de leitura

Acontece que não há tal coisa como um almoço grátis, mas não há tal coisa como um livro gratuito.

The cover of the Odyssey
Disponível para o baixo preço de $0.00

Eu comecei recentemente um Acender (o tipo de idade, sem uma tela de toque ou 3G ou um ecrã a cores ou qualquer coisa) para um estágio que estou trabalhando. Pensei em pegar alguns livros para ler enquanto eu estava com ele (pode também usar o Kindle para o que é destinado), então abri a Kindle Store no meu Kindle e preparado para comprar alguns livros.

O primeiro livro na minha lista era de Homero Odisseia, que eu estou lendo atualmente na aula de Inglês. Eu rolada embora alguns dos resultados procurando o mais barato cópia. $12.50, $2.50, $0.00, $1.00, $2.00… hm, Parece que eu vou começar a $1 um… esperar, o que?!?

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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. Você 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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