Words about baseball
It’s taken me about 24 hours to process everything that happened last night. I sat on my couch, three Major League Baseball games running on my TV at once through my Xbox, my wife patiently waiting on...
View ArticleMy favorite albums, 2000-09
I’ve found that the further away I’ve gotten from high school the less my musical tastes match up with those of my friends. In high school it was almost a given that everyone in a given group liked the...
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958 words on weirdness in the AL MVP ballot
Edit: Why not to base your title on word count: Found I missed 2007, so now we’re up to 958. The annual Baseball Writers Association of America awards are bringers of great joy this time of year, not...
View ArticleUsing the Twitter and Face.com APIs to put googly eyes on people
UPDATE: So obviously with the Face.com API changes this project no longer works, but if a project of mine had to die I’m glad it was something like this and not, say, an open government tool. The world...
View ArticleTracking Oregon newspaper endorsements
Another quick post for a quick project. Putting together my ballot for the November election, I looked up a few Oregon newspapers to check on their endorsements on certain issues. I don’t put a whole...
View ArticleMessing around with leaflet maps
So I decided to try out mapping with leaflet this weekend. Been meaning to a) get back into mapping and b) stop using Google FusionTables. As much as I enjoyed the features and simplicity of Google,...
View ArticleQuick web scraper in Python
Quick little project this weekend that will hopefully grow into a larger one soon. I wrote a scraper that cycles through and downloads all the voter registration statistics on the Oregon Secretary of...
View ArticleInserting geometry with PostGIS and psycopg2
This is here mostly to remind myself when I forget later this week, but here’s a look at some problems I had trying to insert geometry into a PostGIS database with python and psycopg2. Basically in...
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