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.
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“[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.”
On announcers: “Watch a game for an inning with no volume. See if you miss anything.”
“Self-tracking can sometimes appear narcissistic, but it also allows people to connect with one another in new ways.”
“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.”
“Although the politics of China remains communist, the economics might be called Advanced Mercantilist.”
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.
Kids from the Westman Islands gather at night and rescue birds fooled by the town's lights.
Using GPS and some scripted logic, Mikal Hart built a box that a newly-married couple could only open at one spot on earth.
Features an preview of their album, How to Make Friends.
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.
“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.”
She's turning the presentation into a series on how to get strangers to talk to you in different situations.
A cautious, ecologically minded and technologically savvy planner? Say it ain't so.
“[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.”
PDX comes out ahead in both results and attitude, she says.
Shot in 1965 for the CBC. Who's up for recreating this in present-day Vancouver?
