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A fan's proposal for a new stadium in Toronto would have it outdoor and baseball-only

Richard — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:12:07 +0000

I missed this back in 2009 when it first came out. The linked PDF contains the proposal in full, written by Jeffrey A. Citron and David Steinhauer. It came out before the new outdoor park — Target Field — in Minneapolis (which has similar weather to Toronto) was completed. [link]

Minor League Baseball: Investing in the Future

Richard — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:58:39 +0000

[M]ost players at the minor league level who haven’t reached minor league free agency are lucky to make $10,000 over the course of a season; a survey of players revealed that those in rookie ball make $1,250-1,300 a month while players in Triple-A, the highest level of the minors, can make roughly $1,000 more per month while under the contracted amount. [link]

Illustrated Vancouver catalogs the city of Vancouver, British Columbia represented in art

Richard — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:47:08 +0000

[link]

A history of Vancouver’s love affair with baseball

Richard — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:01:10 +0000

[link]

It’s time we had an intervention with the game of baseball

Richard — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:45:07 +0000

On announcers: Watch a game for an inning with no volume. See if you miss anything. [link]

Gary Wolf of The Quantified Self on the data-driven life

Richard — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:52:21 +0000

Self-tracking can sometimes appear narcissistic, but it also allows people to connect with one another in new ways. [link]

Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller, Jr. summarize their book The Meritocracy Myth

Richard — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:48:44 +0000

[link]

The generalist’s dilemma

Richard — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:09:54 +0000

[link]

Ed Smith asks "are we too professional?"

Richard — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:12:47 +0000

At the end of the 19th century, an amateur meant someone who was motivated by the sheer love of doing something; professional was a rare, pejorative term for grubby money-making. [link]

"It is time to look at China, not for what it says, but for what it does, and to judge it accordingly."

Richard — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:25:42 +0000

Although the politics of China remains communist, the economics might be called Advanced Mercantilist. [link]

The Reykjavik Grapevine's Paul Nikolov summarizes the current crisis in Iceland over Icesave

Richard — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:01:50 +0000

[link]

10-minute documentary featuring Copenhagen-based street art heroes Lints, Kissmama, and Basco 5

Richard — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:59:46 +0000

[link]

Melissa Goldstein interviews Vancouver photographer Jeff Wall on The Economist's blog

Richard — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:21:51 +0000

[link]

A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart

Richard — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:25:20 +0000

Lockhart argues in part essay, part dialogue between Salviati and Simplicio, that math is an art to be discovered, not to be taught by rote. [link]

Iceland's lost puffins

Richard — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:40:26 +0000

Kids from the Westman Islands gather at night and rescue birds fooled by the town's lights. [link]

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle

Richard — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:34:18 +0000

Using GPS and some scripted logic, Mikal Hart built a box that a newly-married couple could only open at one spot on earth. [link]

The Fairtilizer blog interviews Icelandic synth band FM Belfast

Richard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:20 +0000

Features an preview of their album, How to Make Friends. [link]

New York Times obituary for John DeFrancis

Richard — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:26:00 +0000

News to me, he died in January of this year. He was a giant in Chinese language studies, and helped shape some of my understanding when studying Mandarin. [link]

Why women might end up coming across "cold" to men

Richard — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:27:23 +0000

When strangers do make threats against women they generally make a move when the woman is alone, so by definition you cannot have possibly been there to see and know what the woman has had to deal with in the past. [link]

Notes by Stephen Rees on the Metro Vancouver Sustainability Breakfast about rail in the Lower Mainland

Richard — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:58:03 +0000

[link]

Sacha Chua's amazing presentation "The Shy Connector"

Richard — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:05:23 +0000

She's turning the presentation into a series on how to get strangers to talk to you in different situations. [link]

Frances Bula profiles Vancouver's directory of city planning Brent Toderian

Richard — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:58:16 +0000

A cautious, ecologically minded and technologically savvy planner? Say it ain't so. [link]

Knute Berger reviews Envision Cascadia, an art exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

Richard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:03:56 +0000

[T]he scary thing about [Jack] Gunter's painting is that all of us have seen that development somewhere in the Northwest, be it Snoquamlie Ridge or North Vancouver. [link]

Christine McLaren compares Portland's and Vancouver's bicycle infrastructure

Richard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:38:15 +0000

PDX comes out ahead in both results and attitude, she says. [link]

A day in the life of a bus driver

Richard — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:19:55 +0000

Shot in 1965 for the CBC. Who's up for recreating this in present-day Vancouver? [link]