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Monthly Archives July 2007

Great news for Pirates fans

I prematurely wrote a post earlier today about how much I hate the Detroit Tigers for taking “Home Run Jack” Wilson away from the Pittsburgh Pirates, even though his 47 career home runs in seven seasons makes me the only person to call him Home Run Jack. But the negotiations for Wilson failed, and the [...]

Posted 31 July 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (2) °

Role Models

The Columbia Journalism Review‘s Gal Beckerman writes, at the end of a post noting the journalism profession’s decline in cultural nobility: I can’t remember a positive portrayal of a reporter on film in the last few years. The first journalism movie from recent times that even comes to mind is [Shattered Glass]. Oh boy, this [...]

Posted 26 July 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (2) °

Netflix is confused

One interesting effect of having rated more than 500 movies on Netflix is that every resulting suggestion comes with both a “customer average” rating and a prediction of how well I’ll like it. As you can see in the screen grab above, the red stars under my “Add” buttons reflect what Netflix thinks my rating [...]

Posted 10 July 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

What I bought this morning…

…instead of an iPhone (and 200 songs to go with it). Resonator pipe/muffler. With a CD player and a digital AM/FM radio built right in, my car has everything I need to play the music I want to hear. The $600 iPhone can store up to 8 gigabytes of music — enough for about five [...]

Posted 07 July 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °