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Elephant in Africa
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2007-08-21
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2005-03-07
Elephant in Africa
A Polaroid of an elephant by esoule.
2007-08-21
Streetcar at Jameson Square
Photo from www.portlandground.com
2005-03-07
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Bryan - The reunion is in the works. Dan Kimmet and I have set the reunion to take place during homecoming weekend this fall. WE are trying to gather all the emails, addresses, phone number,etc., we can. If you have any, could you send them my way?
Hb
Bryan:
I am so excited that someone has decided to put together a reunion for our class. I t seems strange that 11 years could have passed so quickly!
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This is the kind of weather we had in Sunburst, MT:
Here's a modified migration file for the acts_as_billable plugin that will work with foreign_key_migrations. Nothing you couldn't do in a few minutes, but thought I'd share.
I never cared too much about Halloween in the past, but it is pretty cool for one reason. I think this sums it up:
"Oh, so you're a girl in a short skirt with a nurse hat? Oh, and you're a girl in a short skirt with a referee shirt? Oh and you must be a cop.. I can tell because of the skirt and the badge, we both know cops usually wear skirts!"
I think Halloween has really been appropriated by the adult partier crowd in recent years (to our great benefit!). Turns out you need more than just kids hopped up on corn syrup to make a holiday really happen :)
I would say that it's probably the finest holiday we've got in America, although St. Paddie's is a close second.
I was talking to the old man and he said he,live in calgary, was going down to sunburst to watch the football game saturday.
I guess it's being hyped as the biggest game since 1990 to take place in sunburst. Centerville and Sunburst are both 6-0.
Wow, that's crazy. It's been a while since Sunburst had a good team. I had no idea they were 6-0 this year.
In classic sunburst form they were beaten by 45.
sadly enough, but it was to the defending state champs, so I'll give them a break.
Yea, then they lost to dutton-brady-power and evidently any other town with more than two people by 27 to 20.
home many towns can you name in school, maybe sunburst should just inbrace firdig, whitlash, milk river, oilmont, and coutts.
Becoming SMOFWC
I don't acknowledge kevin
Hi,
The THT CS% for catchers seems to be calculated incorrectly. For instance, Brad Ausmus's raw data from mlb.com lists him as having 47 SB and 17 CS. 17/(47+17)=26.6%, but THT lists him as having thrown out only 15% of baserunners. There are numerous other examples of catchers having CS% that seems to be wrong. SB and CS seem like pretty unambiguous statistics...is this a bug? Or am I missing something regarding how this is calculated?
--Patrick
Hi Patrick,
The difference is that we get catcher-specific stats from BIS. Our
stats show the number of times the catcher threw out the baserunner;
the other sites show the number of times either the pitcher or catcher
threw out the baserunner.
Regards,
Bryan
Wow, I had no idea. Thank you very much, that's very interesting information to know!
--Patrick
no problem.. I had forgotten myself..
Sun x64 Systems - Microsoft Windows Compatibility.
I've spent a lot of oxygen and carbon dioxide over the past seven years telling people how crappy Microsoft is and hanging on to a little bit of pride of working at Sun, but then they do this. Of course I've known about this for a long time but it was secret. I just hoped that it wouldn't actually materialize.
The Red Cross called a few days ago to sign me up for a blood draw tomorrow at Sun.. the lady on the phone accidentally referred to Sun as "Sun Microsoft". Oh, and Oregon governor Ted Kulonwhateverhisnameis said the same thing a couple years ago. Maybe they knew more than they were supposed to.
As long as we don't get to the point where we ship a lot of boxes with Windows, I guess it might be OK.
People who want to use Microsoft Server 2003 baffle me..
Did you build the code from scratch yourself, or is there open source code providing a similar base for someone who is creating a stats database for Asian baseball?
The biggest hindrance to moving forward on my project is the incredible amount of coding it will require to create and update the code I would need, so I figure it is worth asking before I spend the time to get things up and running with an inferior system.
Hi Sal,
The Hardball Times buys Major League Baseball stats from Baseball Info Solutions, who send us the stats in CSV files daily. I then update our database tables with these stats. The stats pages you see are generated from code I wrote in PHP that basically consists of several classes that wrap around SQL queries. I used PEAR::DB and PEAR::DataGrid to fetch and render the data, as well as Smarty for some templating.
So, it's not open source, but I might be able to help if you have any questions.
I already contacted BIS about stats, but unfortunately they don't provide the stats I'd require. I'm going to have to automate a data-gathering system myself, and that I'll be able to take care of. It's more the data organization that is giving me a headache -- to create the massive sortable lists that are available on THT is what I'm trying to find an easier way to do.
I was just wondering if you'd created all the code for the sortable stats database yourself, or if there was some sort of open source data-sorting code that was available. I guess the answer is no.
Is there any advice you can provide other than just putting my heart, soul, and freetime into creating the PHP for it? Care to take on another project that will have global consequences and revolutionize the internet as we know it?
Hi Sal. Can you send me an email? Might be easier to chat that way. My contact info is here.
I don't have any spare time to take on another project, but I might be able to advise on how to approach it. It really depends on how much SQL experience you have and how much web scripting experience (PHP, Ruby/Rails, etc.) you have.
p.s., I use PEAR::Structures_DataGrid to generate the html table and add the column sorting functionality. It might be easier to just generate the tables yourself, however. DataGrid is great for some simpler things, but I had to use some advanced features of it to get it to work right with the THT data.
If you want to use PHP, I highly recommend using some kind of development framework like CakePHP or Symfony.
I am sorry if this isn't where I should post this, but I have a question about the THT stat pages for individuals. There doesn't appear to be a column for SF, just SHs. I am missing it somewhere? Thanks in advance, it'll help me calculate a couple of things for my own interest and those stat pages are the best ones I could find.
Patrick
Hi Patrick. I think the reason we don't have sacrifice flies on the THT stats pages is due to lack of space. In fact, we're trying to find room for a few more right now. If I can figure out a good way to squeeze more stats on the page with sacrificing readability, I'll include SF as well.
Thanks for the comment.
OK, that makes sense. Good luck, hope to see more stats soon. BTW, great work so far.
Patrick